Overview
- Stakes a critical claim for attending to the tension between the lieu and milieu of memory, a tension implicating site-specific social practices
- Brings together research from scholars across the humanities and social sciences within a cohesive framework
- Addresses themes of violence, trauma, and testimony to illustrate how they accrue conceptual relevance, and consequently a careful consideration of how concepts and theories "travel" and come to be exposed in different contexts and subsequently modified
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)
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This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco. In making a claim for ‘the social life of memory,’ the introduction discusses a particular research field of memory studies, elaborating an approach to memory in terms of social production and engagement. The Arab Spring is evoked to draw attention to new rifts within and between history and remembrance in the regions of North Africa and the Middle East. As authoritarian forms of governance are challenged, official panoramic narratives are confronted with a multiplicity of memories of violent pasts. The eight chapters trace personal and public inventories of violence, trauma, and testimony, addressing memory in cinema, in newspapers and periodicals, as an experience of public environments, through transnational and diasporic mediums, and amongst younger generations.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Norman Saadi Nikro has an Australian-Lebanese background, and holds a PhD (1998) from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Habilitation degree (2013) from the University of Potsdam, Germany. His book The Fragmenting Force of Memory: Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon came out in 2012.
Sonja Hegasy is the Vice Director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. She studied Arabic and Islamic studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and at Columbia University in New York, USA. In 1996 she received her PhD from the Free University of Berlin, Germany with a thesis on State and Civil Society in Morocco (in German).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Life of Memory
Book Subtitle: Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco
Editors: Norman Saadi Nikro, Sonja Hegasy
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66622-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66621-1Published: 04 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88287-1Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66622-8Published: 19 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 246
Number of Illustrations: 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Middle Eastern Culture, Middle Eastern Politics, Memory Studies, Cultural Theory