Towards a Collaborative Memory
German Memory Work in a Transnational Context
1st Edition
Published on 12. August 2022
276 pages
978-1-80073-596-5 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on the memory of the German Democratic Republic, Towards a Collaborative Memory explores the cross-border collaborations of three German institutions. Using an innovative theoretical and methodological framework, drawing on relational sociology, network analysis and narrative, the study highlights the epistemic coloniality that has underpinned global partnerships across European actors and institutions. Sara Jones reconceptualizes transnational memory towards an approach that is collaborative not only in its practices, but also in its ethics, and shows how these institutions position themselves within dominant relationship cultures reflected between East and West, and North and South.
Reviews / Votes
"Jones draws on an impressive number of unique primary sources, and her review of the literature on memory scholarship is thorough. Readers in several disciplines and at different levels of expertise will find much to like here. No recent work is comparable...Highly Recommended." * ChoiceMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 27 Illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-80073-596-5 (9781800735965)
DOI
10.3167/9781800735958
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Book
08/2022
Berghahn Books
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Person
Sara Jones is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely and led on numerous funded projects within memory studies, with a particular focus on post-socialist memory cultures (especially in Germany), first person testimony, transnational and relational memory. She is author of Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere (2011) and The Media of Testimony: Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic (2014).
Content
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: German Memory Work in Transnational Context
Chapter 1. Towards a Collaborative Memory: A Framework and a Method
Chapter 2. Tracing the Shape of Transnational Collaboration
Chapter 3. Narratives of a Shared Past: Central and Eastern European, Western European and Post Soviet Memory Zones
Chapter 4. Narratives of their Present and Future: East Asian and MENA Memory Zones
Chapter 5. Connecting Memory: Transzonal Brokers
Chapter 6. The National in the Transnational: Intrazonal Brokers
Conclusion: A Collaborative Memory Not Yet Achieved
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: German Memory Work in Transnational Context
Chapter 1. Towards a Collaborative Memory: A Framework and a Method
Chapter 2. Tracing the Shape of Transnational Collaboration
Chapter 3. Narratives of a Shared Past: Central and Eastern European, Western European and Post Soviet Memory Zones
Chapter 4. Narratives of their Present and Future: East Asian and MENA Memory Zones
Chapter 5. Connecting Memory: Transzonal Brokers
Chapter 6. The National in the Transnational: Intrazonal Brokers
Conclusion: A Collaborative Memory Not Yet Achieved
Bibliography
