Aline Sierp has published (together with Jenny Wüstenberg) a new book on Agency in Transnational Memory Politics.
The volume brings together the theory and practice of transnational memory politics through an innovative analytical framework. It focuses on questions of agency, or in other words, the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.
Through a number of carefully selected case studies from across the globe, the volume systematically investigates the actors, practices, and the structures that facilitate and/or limit transnational remembrance, and the impact such processes have on international and domestic affairs.
Contents:
Introduction: Agency and Practice in the Making of Transnational Memory Spaces (Jenny Wüstenberg)
Part I: Bottom-Up Agency
Chapter 1. A Field-Theoretical Approach to Collective Memory (Zoltan Dujisin)
Chapter 2. Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case (Silvana Mandolessi)
Chapter 3. Online Transnational Memory Activism and Commemoration: The Case of the White Armband Day (Orli Fridman & Katarina Ristić)
Chapter 4. Memory Activism across Borders: The Transformative Influence of the Argentinean-Franco Court Case and Activist Protest Movements on Spain’s Recovery of Historical Memory (Andrea Hepworth)
Chapter 5. The Creation and Utilization of Opportunity Structures for Transnational Activism on WWII Sexual Slavery in Asia (Mary McCarthy)
Chapter 6. The Political Agency of Victims through Transnational Processes of Forensic Anthropology and Memory Construction in Latin America (Devin Finn)
Chapter 7. Transnational Place-Making After Political Violence: Agencies and Practices of Site Memorialization in the Latin American Southern Cone (Gruia Bădescu)
Part II: Top-Down Agency
Chapter 8. My Pain, Our Grievance: Universal Human Rights Discourse and the Standardization of Collective Memory (Noga Glucksam)
Chapter 9. Transitional Justice in Public: Communicating Transnational Memories of Mass Violence (Courtney E Cole)
Chapter 10. Transnational Memory Movements in the 9/11 Museum (Amy Sodaro)
Part III: Horizontal Agency
Chapter 11. Links to the Past, Bridges for the Present? Recognition among Memory Organizations in a European Network (Till Hilmar)
Chapter 12. ‘Life was a precarious dance:’ Graphic Narration and the Construction of a Transcultural Memory Space in the Positive Negatives Project (Dragos Manea and Mihaela Precup)
Chapter 13. A Transnational Nation: Roma National Identity in the Making (Balázs Majtényi and György Majtenyi)
Chapter 14. Border Crossing Cultural Initiatives of Memory and Reconciliation Across the Colombian-Panamanian Border (Ricardo A. Velasco)
Conclusions: Agency in Transnational Memory Politics—Guidelines for Inquiry (Aline Sierp)
