Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World [electronic resource] /
Beyen, M.editor.
Deseure, B.editor.
In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Local, National, Transnational Memories: A Triangular Relationship; Part I: The Politics of Urban Memory; 2 Physical Space, Urban Space, Civic Space: Rotterdam's Inhabitants and their Appropriation of the City's Past; 3 The Politics of Street Names: Local, National, Transnational Budapest; 4 Transfer Zones: German and Global Suffering in Dresden; 5 Manufacturing Local Identification Behind the Iron Curtain in Sevastopol after the Second World War
6 The Local Past in a Contested Borderland: Commemoration in Strasbourg Between France, Germany and EuropePart II: Places and Practices of Subaltern Memory; 7 Displacements and Hidden Histories: Museums, Locality and the British Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade; 8 Structures of Collective Memory: The Last Bannerman in Local Japan; 9 Remembering Father Cícero: Local, Regional and National Memory in North-eastern Brazil; 10 'Reconciliation across the Graves'? The German War Cemetery at Ysselsteyn as a Place of Remembrance between Local and (Inter)national Areas of Conflict 1945-2000
11 Local and Counter-Memories of Socialism in Post-Socialist Romania12 Greetings from Borgerokko: An Antwerp Neighbourhood as a National Icon of Globalization and Anti-globalism; 13 Memories on the Move: The Italian Student Movement of 1977 between Local, National and Global Memories of Protest; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors.
World history.
Social history.
Historiography.
Cognitive psychology.
Sociology.
History, Modern.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Social History.
Memory Studies.
Cognitive Psychology.
Sociology, general.
Modern History.