Defending Memory in Global Politics
Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis
1st Edition
Published on 21. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-032-37822-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 role in "defending memory" during times of crisis. Embracing a broad definition of conflict that includes mnemonic, societal and armed conflicts, the expert contributors engage with political trauma, demonstrating its power to evoke commemorations and other shared practices of collective remembrance, shaping and perpetuating collective memory, the construction of national and transnational identities, national interests and foreign policy behaviors.
The book contributes to the fields of memory and trauma studies and ontological security in international relations. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of political science, sociology, international relations, history, nationalism and identity, international studies, cultural geography, social psychology, cultural studies and anthropology.
Instead of focusing exclusively on national identities and state actors, it explores various identities, including substate and transnational actors, and their role in "defending memory" during times of crisis. Embracing a broad definition of conflict that includes mnemonic, societal and armed conflicts, the expert contributors engage with political trauma, demonstrating its power to evoke commemorations and other shared practices of collective remembrance, shaping and perpetuating collective memory, the construction of national and transnational identities, national interests and foreign policy behaviors.
The book contributes to the fields of memory and trauma studies and ontological security in international relations. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of political science, sociology, international relations, history, nationalism and identity, international studies, cultural geography, social psychology, cultural studies and anthropology.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-37822-0 (9781032378220)
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Erica Resende | Dovile Budryte | Douglas Becker
Defending Memory in Global Politics
Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis
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Defending Memory in Global Politics
Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis
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Erica Resende | Dovile Budryte | Douglas Becker
Defending Memory in Global Politics
Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis
E-Book
01/2025
Routledge
€56.99
Available for download
Persons
Erica Resende is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Security Studies at the Brazilian War College, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dovile Budryte is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA, and a member of EUROPAST project at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Douglas Becker is Associate Teaching Professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, and in Environmental Studies at University of Southern California Dornsife, USA.
Dovile Budryte is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA, and a member of EUROPAST project at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Douglas Becker is Associate Teaching Professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, and in Environmental Studies at University of Southern California Dornsife, USA.
Content
Introduction: The Securitization of Memory in the Context of Crisis Part 1: States Defending Memory 1. Securitizing the Past in Colombia? The Mnemonical Disputes over the Taking of the Palace of Justice in 1985 2. The Controversies of Memory Politics in Authoritarian Chechnya 3. The Securitization of Memory and the Practice of Public History in the Baltic States 4. Memory Contestation and Violence: The Battle over the US Civil War Narrative and Variations of Mnemonic In/Security 5. Framing, Naming, and Claiming Cultural Heritage in Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh: Mass Media and Cultural Heritage as Mnemonic Battlegrounds Part 2: Non-State Actors Defending Memory 6. When Memory Is Not Defended: Precarity and Political Imprisonment in Myanmar 7. Contesting Memories in and of Bhutan: Diaspora Radio as a Mnemonic Challenge 8. Speaking for the Dead in Brazil: Mothers as Memory Activists for Justice and Change 9. Trauma Visualization: The Role of Transnational Actors in the Mnemonic Preservation and Promotion of Holodomor Narratives in Canada 10. Russian Securitization of Memory and Multiple Anxieties: Defending Memory through the Diasporic Film Haytarma 11. Gender, War and Remembrance: 'Heroic Subjects' in Lithuania's Memory Regime of Fighting and Suffering 12. Conclusion: Defending Memory at the Frontiers of War in Europe