Memories on the Move [electronic resource] : Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past /
Palmberger, Monika.editor.
Tošić, Jelena.editor.
Bringing together vivid ethnographic material, this book opens up a timely conversation between memory and mobility/migration studies. It goes beyond the idea of the nation state as the primary unit of analysis to explore how people on the move use different forms and media of remembering to make sense of their lives and act as political subjects. Investigating when and by what means people on the move remember and communicate memories in the context of various forms of (im)mobility, the authors examine photographs, films, the reinhabiting of pre-exilic homes, pseudo-historical performances, transgenerational mnemonic gatherings and transnational political activism. This edited collection will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, human geography, history and oral history. .
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Introduction: Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past; Jelena Tošić and Monika Palmberger -- Part I. Mnemonic Dimensions of Exile  -- Chapter 1. Shifting Sites: Memories of War and Exile across Time and Place; Marita Eastmond -- Chapter 2. Refugee Camp as Mediating Locality: Memory and Place in Protracted Exile; Dorota Woroniecka-­‐Krzyzanowska -- Chapter 3. Ambivalent Sites of Memories: The Meaning of Family Homes for Transnational Families; Sanda Üllen -- Part II. Mediating Memories on the Move -- Chapter 4. Memory in Motion: Photographs in Suitcases; Natalia Alonso Rey -- Chapter 5. Mobile Temporalities: Place, Ruination and the Dialectics of Time; Annika Lems -- Chapter 6. ‘We Do Really Need Hollywood’: Filmmaking and Remembrance of Acts of Genocide in the Kurdish Transnation; Maria Six-­‐Hohenbalken -- Part III. Legacies and Politics of Memory -- Chapter 7. Remembering the Unfulfilled Dream of Jewish Life in Postwar Communist Poland; Kamila Dąbrowska -- Chapter 8. Nomadism and Nostalgia in Hungary; László Kürti -- Chapter 9. A Past that Hurts: Memory, Politics and Transnationalism between Bangladesh and Portugal; José Mapril -- Moving Memories and Memories of Moves: Some Afterthoughts; Karen Fog Olwig. .
Bringing together vivid ethnographic material, this book opens up a timely conversation between memory and mobility/migration studies. It goes beyond the idea of the nation state as the primary unit of analysis to explore how people on the move use different forms and media of remembering to make sense of their lives and act as political subjects. Investigating when and by what means people on the move remember and communicate memories in the context of various forms of (im)mobility, the authors examine photographs, films, the reinhabiting of pre-exilic homes, pseudo-historical performances, transgenerational mnemonic gatherings and transnational political activism. This edited collection will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, human geography, history and oral history. .
Emigration and immigration.
Historiography.
Ethnography.
Human geography.
Political science.
Migration.
Memory Studies.
Ethnography.
Human Geography.
Political Science.