Interpreting Contentious Memory

Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past
This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, war, nationalism, colonialism and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics.

This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation, and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.

Featuring an international group of scholars, this book makes important contributions to social memory studies, but also shows how studying memory is vital to our understanding of enduring social problems that span the globe.

Contributor: Thomas DeGloma (Edited by), Sofya Aptekar (Contributions by), Edna Lomsky-Feder (Contributions by), Gary Fine (Contributions by), Roberto Vélez-Vélez (Contributions by), Cal Abbo (Contributions by), Amy Sodaro (Contributions by), Selma Leydesdorff (Contributions by), Nicole Fox (Contributions by), Christopher Robertson (Contributions by), Claire Whitlinger (Contributions by), Carol A. Kidron (Contributions by), Fatma Müge Göçek (Contributions by), Werner Bohleber (Contributions by), Jacob Caponi (Contributions by), Janet Jacobs (Edited by)

Pages: 292

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