Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Local, National, Transnational Memories: A Triangular Relationship

   1. Introduction: Local, National, Transnational Memories: A Triangular Relationship

      • Marnix Beyen

      Pages 1-23

3. The Politics of Urban Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Physical Space, Urban Space, Civic Space: Rotterdam’s Inhabitants and their Appropriation of the City’s Past

      • Willem Frijhoff

      Pages 27-50

   3. The Politics of Street Names: Local, National, Transnational Budapest

      • Emilia Palonen

      Pages 51-71

   4. Transfer Zones: German and Global Suffering in Dresden

      • Mathias Berek

      Pages 72-93

   5. Manufacturing Local Identification Behind the Iron Curtain in Sevastopol after the Second World War

      • Karl D. Qualls

      Pages 94-114

   6. The Local Past in a Contested Borderland: Commemoration in Strasbourg Between France, Germany and Europe

      • Thomas Williams

      Pages 115-136

4. Places and Practices of Subaltern Memory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Displacements and Hidden Histories: Museums, Locality and the British Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

      • Geoffrey Cubitt

      Pages 139-161

   3. Structures of Collective Memory: The Last Bannerman in Local Japan

      • Michael Wert

      Pages 162-179

   4. Remembering Father Cícero: Local, Regional and National Memory in North-eastern Brazil

      • Gerald Greenfield

      Pages 180-199

   5. ‘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

      • Christine Gundermann

      Pages 200-220

   6. Local and Counter-Memories of Socialism in Post-Socialist Romania

      • Duncan Light, Craig Young

      Pages 221-243

   7. Greetings from Borgerokko: An Antwerp Neighbourhood as a National Icon of Globalization and Anti-globalism

      • Marnix Beyen

      Pages 244-257

   8. Memories on the Move: The Italian Student Movement of 1977 between Local, National and Global Memories of Protest

      • Andrea Hajek

      Pages 258-276

5. Back Matter

   Pages 277-280

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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.

• Memory
• Globalization
• Local Identities
• National Identities
• Germany
• globalization
• memory
• Museum
• Nation
• politics
• Transnational

• University of Antwerp, Belgium

  Marnix Beyen

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

  Brecht Deseure

Mathias Berek, Universität Leipzig, Germany Geoffrey Cubitt, University of York, UK Willem Frijhoff, Dutch National Research Organization (NWO) Gerald M. Greenfield, University of Wisconsin Parkside, USA Christine Gundermann, University of Cologne, Germany Andrea Hajek, Warwick Oral History Network, UK Duncan Light, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Emilia Palonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Karl Qualls, Dickinson College, USA Michael Wert, Marquette University, USA Tom Williams, University of Valenciennes, France Craig Young, Metropolitan University of Manchester, UK

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