Fluidity of Collective Memory

Time, Place, and Meaning-Making in Recalling the Past

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

In their collective dimension, memories are fluid—their form and content constantly adjusted by locations, places, generations, cultures, traditions, politics, epistemic authorities, and historical predictabilities.Contrary to the notion of memory as a static repository of facts, this volume examines the malleability of collective memory, exploring how memories are constantly adjusted and re-shaped in a temporal and spatial dimension of meaning-making. The contributors in this volume do not address memory in its psychological dimension. Instead, they explore the mnemonic materializations in cultural and social settings, treating memory as a powerful force that shapes the identity of societies, cultures, and communities. It is the tapestry of shared experiences, narratives, and symbols that define how a group remembers its past. This volume explores how societies actively construct meanings around these collective recollections and argues that collective memory is often constructed, reconstructed, negotiated, and questioned to serve various ends.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-19
Mått:154 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:268
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666965575

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Maria-Alina Asavei is Associate Professor in the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, at Charles University, Czechia.Katerina Králová is Professor in the Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, at Charles University, Czechia.

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Written in a lively style, this volume greatly adds to our understanding of the complex concept of collective memory. It integrates multiple perspectives in interconnected sections which explores memory in its spatial and temporal dimensions, highlighting its fluidity and adaptability in various contexts. The book should be read by anyone interested in memory studies, philosophy, anthropology, and political science.

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List of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction, Maria Alina Asavei and Katerina KralovaPart I: Artistic and Cultural Memories in Changing Times and Spaces1. From Text to Place and Back: Exploring Information Dynamics and Visitor Engagement at Literary Heritage Sites, Iulian Vamanu and Rachel Rackham2. Villains of the Lost Paradise: Reshaping Histories and Shifting Memories of Nicolae and Elena Ceau?escu and Communism, Klara Vedlichova3. Making and Un-Making Memories. Reviving Recent Contemporary Art in Romania, Cristina Stoenescu4. Weaving between Meta-Narratives of Multiple Pasts: How Do the Postmodern Novels The Adventures of a Wanderer in Slovakia and Flights Employ Petite Histoire to Reveal the Socialist and Post-Socialist Simulacrum of the State? Claudia Macey-DarePart II: Testimonial Recounting of the Past: Shifting Meanings, Images, and Narratives5. Nicolae Ceau?escu's Official Portrait in the Shifting Memories of Romania’s Generation X, Alexandru Stanescu6. Memories of Loss and Atrocities: Jewish Photographers of Thessaloniki and their Post-Holocaust Family Archives, Katerina Kralova and Nathalie Soursos7. “Life(-long) Storying”: An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Multidimensional Embeddedness of Personal Narrative Production, Jiri Kocian, Jakub Mlynar and Grygorii MaliukovPart III: Urban Space and Memory Making and Un-Making8. From Raising a Soviet Man to Building a US Embassy: The Republican Stadium in Chisinau between Two Hegemons, Katerina Fuksova and Ecaterina Pislari9. Shifting Nostalgias through Urban Domestic Interiors in (Post-)Communist Romania, Maria Alina AsaveiPart IV: National(ist) Narratives between Heroism and Victimhood10. Projecting National Victimhood into Foreign Policy: Serbia in the Wake of Russia’s 2022 Invasion of Ukraine, Jessie Barton Hronesova11. Unity through Disunity: Turkey and the Memory of the Treaty of Sevres in the Twenty-First Century, Jacob MazeIndex