Carnivalizing Reconciliation

Hanna Teichler

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 8
• Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtl... Lees meer

Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 4
• The dynamics of transnational memory play a central role in modern politics, from postsocialist efforts at transitional justice to the global legacies... Lees meer

Velvet Retro

Veronika Pehe

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 2
• Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked "nostalgia" to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of th... Lees meer

The Struggle for the Past

Elizabeth Jelin

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 6
• In all societies-but especially those that have endured political violence-the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intert... Lees meer

Resettlers and Survivors

Gaëlle Fisher

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 3
• Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it... Lees meer

The Mobility of Memory

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 5
• Migration is most concretely defined by the movement of human bodies, but it leaves indelible traces on everything from individual psychology to major... Lees meer

The Right to Memory

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 10
• The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. Th... Lees meer

Weaponizing the Past

Kate Korycki

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 11
• In Poland, contemporary political actors have constructed a narrative of Polish history since 1989 in which Polish and Jewish involvement with communi... Lees meer

When Will We Talk about Hitler?

Alexandra Oeser

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 1
• For more than half a century, discourses on the Nazi past have powerfully shaped German social and cultural policy. Specifically, an institutional det... Lees meer

Microhistories of Memory

Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 13
• The West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shootings ... Lees meer

When Will We Talk about Hitler?

Alexandra Oeser

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 1
• For more than half a century, discourses on the Nazi past have powerfully shaped German social and cultural policy. Specifically, an institutional det... Lees meer

De-Commemoration

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 12
• In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This i... Lees meer

Nordic War Stories

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 7
• Situated on Europe's northern periphery, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden found themselves caught between warring powers during World War... Lees meer

Towards a Collaborative Memory

Sara Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Memory | nr. 9
• Focusing on the memory of the German Democratic Republic, Towards a Collaborative Memory explores the cross-border collaborations of three German inst... Lees meer