Memory in a global age
Subtitle: discourses, practices and trajectories
By: edited by Aleida Assmann and Sebastian Conrad
Contributors: Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften
Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780230272910
Subjects: Collective memory; Social psychology; Memory; Congresses; Transnationalism
Description: In the past decade, the field of memory has been dramatically reconfigured. Global conditions have powerfully impacted on memory debates, and at the same time, claims to memory are negotiated globally. This is a fundamental shift, as until recently, the dynamics of memory production unfolded primarily within the bounds of the nation-state; coming to terms with the past was largely a national project. Under the impact of processes of globalization, this has changed fundamentally. Today it has become impossible to understand the trajectories of memory outside a global frame of reference. This book offers an innovative inroad into the various problematics of memory in a global age. It presents analytical categories to chart the terrain, and it supplies richly documented case studies that illustrate the complexities of contemporary ways of appropriating the past. Written from different cultural positions and from different disciplinary backgrounds, the collection of essays emphasizes the positionality of memory production as it is negotiated locally and globally.
Notes: Majority of essays first presented in March 2008 at a conference organized by the International Research Institute for Cultural Studies in Vienna (IFK).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.