About this book series
In the third millennium, the space in which collective memories take shape is no longer national but global, and memories have become entangled, contested and negotiated across borders, connecting historical actors and events across time and space in new ways. A generation of scholars has devised terms such as “multidirectional memory”, “travelling memory”, “cosmopolitan memory” and “entangled memory” to characterize this process.
As part of the same process, memorial practices and memory contests outside of Europe have developed dynamics and languages of their own, though often in dialogue with or borrowing from the paradigms established in the wake of World War Two. In Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and the spaces that connect them, vernacular and institutionalized memories of past traumas are being shaped in conversations within and across national borders. And the European experience which was for so long the touchstone for critical study and practice is being increasingly de-centred.What is the Global South – understood not only in a geographical sense but also in terms of insurgent voices in the Global North – bringing to these conversations? What happens to memory as practice and experience, and what happens to Memory Studies as a field, when European experience and categories are de-centred? And how far do developments outside of Europe offer models of memory activism that can promote productive dialogue between the subjects of memory?
The series welcomes proposals that address these questions from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and also from practitioners, including translations of works originally published in non-European languages.
- Electronic ISSN
- 2662-5695
- Print ISSN
- 2662-5687
- Series Editor
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- Jie-Hyun Lim,
- Eve Rosenhaft
