Editors:
- Demonstrates the crucial link between memory, mobility and politics
- Analyzes a diverse range of media and forms of remembering
- Provides an interdisciplinary take on this timely subject that will appeal across the social sciences and humanities
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Legacies and Politics of Memory
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
- Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA
‘Memories on the Move is a brilliant edited volume that fills an important gap in the field of memory studies as it weaves together issues of mobility and remembering. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographical cases, it offers a rich and complex portrait of mnemonic constructions in the context of forced migration, exile and transnationalism. It is clearly a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, historians and political scientists as well as for all scholars interested in the contemporary dynamics of memory, identity and mobility.’
– David Berliner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
‘This thought-provoking volume disentangles, ethnographically, the complexity of meaning-making practices of memory/forgetting in various contexts of (im)mobility.’
- Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, Belgium
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.
Reviews
“Contesting common assumptions about the rootedness of memory in nation, space and place, Memories on the Move explores the mobility of memory in our age of political change, migration and refugeehood. Through a series of excellent essays focusing on the mobility of people, objects, sites and paradigms, this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.” (Marianne Hirsch, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, Columbia University, USA)
“Memories on the Move is a brilliant edited volume that fills an important gap in the field of memory studies as it weaves together issues of mobility and remembering. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographical cases, it offers a rich and complex portrait of mnemonic constructions in the context of forced migration, exile and transnationalism. It is clearly a must-read foranthropologists, sociologists, historians and political scientists as well as for all scholars interested in the contemporary dynamics of memory, identity and mobility.” (David Berliner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
“This thought-provoking volume disentangles, ethnographically, the complexity of meaning-making practices of memory/forgetting in various contexts of (im)mobility. By doing so, it brings into scholarly dialogue, in a very productive and engaging way, two virtually disconnected fields of study.” (Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, Belgium)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Monika Palmberger, Jelena Tošić
About the editors
Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Jelena Tošić is Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Lecturer at the
University of Bern, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memories on the Move
Book Subtitle: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past
Editors: Monika Palmberger, Jelena Tošić
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57549-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57548-7Published: 10 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84697-9Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57549-4Published: 03 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Memory Studies, Ethnography, Human Geography, Political Science