Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

Jenny Wüstenberg is Professor of History & Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is the founder and past Co-President of the Memory Studies Association (2016-2023), as well as Chair of the COST Action on “Slow Memory: Transformative Practices in Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change” (2021-2025). She is the author of Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the co-editor, most recently, of Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (with Aline Sierp, Berghahn 2020) and the Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (with Yifat Gutman, 2023).

“As a whole, the book is a very stimulating contribution to our further explorations of how to conceptualize transnational memory… As the work of developing the third phase of memory studies continues, this book will provide fertile frameworks and materials to further theorize the relations between the transnational, memory, and politics.” • Memory Studies“This is a timely, necessary and carefully edited volume. It develops a clear-cut conceptual framework for research on transnational memory, illustrated by many well-chosen and well-written case studies from across the globe.” • Joanna Wawrzyniak, University of Warsaw

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPART I: FOUNDATIONSIntroduction: Agency and Practice in the Making of Transnational Memory SpacesJenny WüstenbergChapter 1. A Field-Theoretical Approach to Collective MemoryZoltan DujisinPART II: BOTTOM-UP AGENCYChapter 2. Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa CaseSilvana MandolessiMade available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (“Digital Memories,” Grant agreement n° 677955).Chapter 3. Online Transnational Memory Activism and Commemoration: The Case of the White Armband DayOrli Fridman & Katarina RistićChapter 4. Memory Activism across Borders: The Transformative Influence of the Argentinean-Franco Court Case and Activist Protest Movements on Spain’s Recovery of Historical MemoryAndrea HepworthChapter 5. The Creation and Utilization of Opportunity Structures for Transnational Activism on WWII Sexual Slavery in AsiaMary McCarthyChapter 6. The Political Agency of Victims through Transnational Process of Forensic Anthropology and Memory Construction in Latin AmericaDevin FinnChapter 7. Transnational Place-Making After Political Violence: Agencies and Practices of Site Memorialization in the Latin American Southern ConeGruia BădescuPART III: TOP-DOWN AGENCYChapter 8. My Pain, Our Grievance: Universal Human Rights and Memory Standardization in Liberia's Truth CommissionNoga GlucksamChapter 9. Transitional Justice in Public: Communicating Transnational Memories of Mass ViolenceCourtney E ColeChapter 10. Transnational Memory Movements in the 9/11 MuseumAmy SodaroPART IV: HORIZONTAL AGENCYChapter 11. Links to the Past, Bridges for the Present? Recognition among Memory Organizations in a European NetworkTill HilmarChapter 12. "Life Was a Precarious Dance": Graphic Narration and the Construction of a Transcultural Memory Space in the PositiveNegatives ProjectDragos Manea and Mihaela PrecupChapter 13. A Transnational Nation: Roma National Identity in the MakingBalázs Majtényi and György MajtenyiChapter 14. Border-Crossing Cultural Initiatives of Memory and Reconciliation across the Colombian-Panama BorderRicardo A. Velasco TrujilloPART V: OUTLOOKConclusions: Agency in Transnational Memory Politics—Guidelines for InquiryAline SierpIndex