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Abigail Lewis, Clemens Sedmak, Mechtild Widrich, Jacob M. Kildoo - Remembering Difficult Pasts, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Remembering Difficult Pasts

Monuments and Public Memory in Europe

Av Abigail Lewis, Clemens Sedmak, Mechtild Widrich, Jacob M. Kildoo

Del 18 i serien Understanding Europe: The Council for European Studies book series

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Monuments and memorials, as symbols built intentionally into the environment, are important frames for understanding how narratives of the past are constructed and reconstructed over time. Europe’s memorial landscape is rife with debate about which pasts to remember, how to remember them, and whose job it is to remember.This book presents a range of case studies from the UK to Ukraine to better understand how European societies have grappled with their difficult pasts – whether traumatic, controversial, exclusionary, propagandistic or even embarrassing – through the built environment. Looking across national borders, the contributors explore how different countries, at different moments in time, have memorialized complicated histories, including fascism, socialism, the Holocaust, colonialism and other examples of contemporary violence; and also how they have removed monuments, memorials and architecture as a response to attempts to remember, as well as forget the past.The book considers how memory divides as well as how it unites an increasingly globalized European populace and questions the stakes of memory in Europe, and how European societies remember their diverse and collective histories.
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Abigail Lewis is a historian of modern French and European history. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her research focuses on photography, visual culture and collective memory during and after the Nazi occupation of France. She serves as the Executive Director of the Council for European Studies at Temple University. Clemens Sedmak is Professor of Social Ethics and Director of the Nanovic Institute in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. He also holds concurrent positions with the Department of Theology and the Institute for Social Concerns. He was previously F. D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at King’s College London. Mechtild Widrich is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her books include Performative Monuments: The Rematerialisation of Public Art (2014), Monumental Cares: Sites of History and Contemporary Art (2023). Jacob M. Kildoo is a scholar of Qur’anic and Islamic studies. He currently serves as Senior Research Program Manager at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies (University of Notre Dame).

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