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Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement

Migrants and Monuments

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Editors:
  1. Sabine Marschall

    1. School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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  • Discusses how memory is strategically deployed to defend positions in regards to identity and belonging
  • Explores topical debates surrounding monuments erected by or in memory of refugees and migrants
  • Presents nine socially and geo-politically diverse case studies

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Monuments in the Context of Migration: An Introduction

    • Sabine Marschall
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Production and Contestation of Public Memory Around Migration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Memorializing Migration: Immigrant Patronage, Public Memory and the Syrian Centennial Monument to Argentina (1910)

      • Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf
      Pages 31-60

    3. ‘Columbus Might Be Dwarfed to Obscurity’: Italian Americans’ Engagement with Columbus Monuments in a Time of Decolonization

      • Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra
      Pages 61-93

    4. Long-Distance Nationalism: Ukrainian Monuments and Historical Memory in Multicultural Canada

      • Per A. Rudling
      Pages 95-126

    5. Political and Social Contestation in the Memorialization of ‘Comfort Women’

      • Mary M. McCarthy
      Pages 127-156

    6. Contested Memory in an Eponymous City: The Robert Towns Statue in Townsville, Australia

      • Rodney Sullivan, Robin Sullivan
      Pages 157-186

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 317-326
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About this book

This book explores the border-transcending dimensions of public remembering by focussing on the triangular relationship between memory, monuments and migration. Framed by an introduction and conclusion, nine case studies located in diverse social and geo-political settings feature topical debates and contestation around monuments, statues and memorials erected by migrants or in memory of migrants, refugees and diasporas in host country societies. Written from different disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, art history, cultural studies and political science, the chapters consider displaced people as new, originally unintended audiences who bring transnational and transcultural perspectives to old monuments in host cities. In addition, migrants and diasporic communities are explored as ‘agents of memory’, who produce collective memory in tense environments of intra- and inter-group negotiation or outright hostility at the national and transnational level. The research is conceptually anchored in memory studies, notably transnational memory, multidirectional memory and other concepts emerging from memory studies’ recent ‘transcultural turn’.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

    Sabine Marschall

About the editor

Sabine Marschall is Professor in Cultural and Heritage Tourism at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Her research has explored various aspects of cultural heritage and commemorative monuments. More recently, she has focused on the tourism-migration nexus and the role of memory in migration and travel.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement

  • Book Subtitle: Migrants and Monuments

  • Editors: Sabine Marschall

  • Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41329-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41328-6Published: 01 July 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41331-6Published: 01 July 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41329-3Published: 30 June 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6257

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 326

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Global/International Culture, Memory Studies

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