Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies

The Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers oiriginal contributions that comprise the debates, intersections and future courses of the field. It is divided in six themed sections: 1) theories of memory, 2) social and cultural practices of memory, 3) memory in public discourse, 4) technologies that shape memory, 5) controversial pasts, 6) and intangible memory. A strong emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary breadth of Memory Studies with contributions from leading international scholars in sociology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, film studies, media studies, archive and museum studies, literature and history. The Handbook addresses the core concerns and foundations of this interdisciplinary field while aiming to point out new directions in Memory Studies.

Anna Lisa Tota is Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts of the University Rome III in Rome. Trever Hagen is a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology of the University of Exeter.

Part I. Theories and Perspectives 1. Rethinking the Concept of Collective Memory, Barry Schwartz 2. Reconceptualizing Memory as Event: from difficult pasts to restless events, Robin Wagner-Pacifici 3. Pierre Nora's Les Lieux de memoire Thirty Years After, Patrick Hutton 4. Sites of Memory Studies (Lieux des études de mémoire), Jeffrey Olick 5. Against Memory, Jeffrey Goldfarb 6. Cultural Memory Studies: Mediation, narrative, and the aesthetic, Ann Rigney Part II. Cultural Artefacts, Symbols and Social Practices 7. Social Movements and Memory, Ron Eyerman 8. Banal Commemoration, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi 9. Organizational Memories - A phenomenological analysis, Thomas S. Eberle 10. Memory, Time, and Responsibility, Carmen Leccardi 11. Memory of the Future, Paolo Jedlowski 12. Housing Spirits: The Grave as an Exemplary Site of Memory, Hans Ruin Part III: Public, Transnational, and Transitional Memories 13. Globalization and/of Memory: On the complexification and contestation of memory cultures and practices, David Inglis 14 . The Afterlife and Renaissance of the Plastic People of the (21st Century) Universe: Continuity and memory in bohemia, Trever Hagen 15. De-Centering the Media, Normalizing Scandal, and Deflating Collective Memory, Mark Jacobs 16. Antigone?in Leon: The drama of trauma politics, Natan Sznaider and Alejandro Baer 17. Urban Spaces, City Cultures, and Collective Memories, Kevin Loughran, Gary Alan Fine, and Marcus Anthony Hunter 18. Digital Trauma Archives: The Yellow Star Houses Project, Gabriella Ivacs Part IV: Technologies of Memory 19. Cultural Heritage: Tangible and Intangible Markers of Collective Memory, Diane Barthel-