Defending memory in global politics : mnemonical in/security and crisis

"This book explores the securitization of memory in times of crisis using overlooked cases from the Global South and the Global North. Instead of focusing exclusively on national identities and state actors, it explores various identities, including substate and transnational actors, and their...

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Other Authors Resende, Erica Simone Almeida (Editor), Budrytė, Dovilė (Editor), Becker, Douglas (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New York : Routledge, 2025.
SeriesInterventions (Routledge (Firm))
Subjects
Nationalism and collective memory.
Conflict management > Political aspects.
Mnemonics.
Ethnology > Biographical methods.
International relations > Social aspects.
Security, International.
World politics > 20th century.
World politics > 21st century.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781003342083
1003342086
9781032378169
9781032378220
Physical Description1 online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. States defending memory
  • Securitizing the past in Colombia? The mnemonical disputes over the taking of the Palace of Justice in 1985 / Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos and Rodrigo Mezú
  • The controversies of memory politics in authoritarian Chechnya / Marat Iliyasov
  • The securitization of memory and the practice of public history in the Baltic States / Violeta Davoliute
  • Memory contestation and violence: The battle over the US Civil War narrative and variations of mnemonic in/security / Douglas Becker
  • Framing, naming, and claiming cultural heritage in Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh: Mass media and cultural heritage as mnemonic battlegrounds / Maria Armoudian and Olivia Guyodo
  • Part 2. Non-state actors defending memory
  • When memory is not defended: Precarity and political imprisonment in Myanmar / Seinenu M. Thein Lemelson
  • Contesting memories in and of Bhutan: Diaspora radio as a mnemonic challenge / Susan Banki and I.P. Adhikari
  • Speaking for the dead in Brazil: Mothers as memory activists for justice and change / Erica Resende and Izadora Xavier do Monte
  • Trauma visualization: The role of transnational actors in the mnemonic preservation and promotion of Holodomor narratives in Canada / Milana Nikolko and Klavdia Tatar
  • Russian securitization of memory and multiple anxieties: Defending memory through the diasporic film Haytarma / Didem Buhari
  • Gender, war and remembrance: 'Heroic subjects' in Lithuania's memory regime of fighting and suffering / Dovilė Budrytė
  • Conclusion: Defending memory at the frontiers of war in Europe / Neringa Klumbytė.

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