ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections and future courses of the field. It is divided in six themed sections:

1)Theories and Perspectives,

2) Cultural artefacts, Symbols and Social practices,

3) Public, Transnational, and Transitional Memories

4) Technologies of Memory,

5) Terror, Violence and Disasters,

6) and Body and Ecosystems.

A strong emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary breadth of Memory Studies with contributions from leading international scholars in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, biology, film studies, media studies, archive studies, literature and history. The Handbook addresses the core concerns and foundations of the field while indicating new directions in Memory Studies.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Memory work: naming pasts, transforming futures

part |70 pages

Theories and perspectives

chapter |6 pages

Reconceptualizing memory as event

From “difficult pasts” to “restless events”

chapter |12 pages

Against memory

chapter |12 pages

Cultural memory studies

Mediation, narrative, and the aesthetic

part |64 pages

Cultural artifacts, symbols and social practices

chapter |16 pages

Organizational memories

A phenomenological analysis

chapter |10 pages

Housing spirits

The grave as an exemplary site of memory

part |77 pages

Public, transnational and transitional memories

chapter |15 pages

Globalization and/of memory

On the complexification and contestation of memory cultures and practices

chapter |12 pages

Antigone in León

The drama of trauma politics 1

chapter |13 pages

Digital trauma archives

The Yellow Star Houses Project

part |107 pages

Technologies of memory

chapter |12 pages

Cultural heritage

Tangible and intangible markers of collective memory

chapter |14 pages

Remembering through music

Turkish diasporic identities in Berlin 1

chapter |12 pages

Cinema and memory studies

Now, then and tomorrow

chapter |13 pages

Memory and future selves in futurist dystopian cinema

The Road (2010) and The Book of Eli (2010)

chapter |16 pages

“The mirror with a memory”

Placing photography in memory studies

chapter |23 pages

Bone, steel and stone

Reification and transformation in Holocaust memorials

chapter |15 pages

Walking the autobiographical path

The spatial dimension of remembering in a memoir by Italo Calvino

part |115 pages

Terror, violence and disasters

chapter |11 pages

Memory and the recent past

Chile, from revolution to repression

chapter |16 pages

An ‘unaccomplished memory'

The period of the ‘strategy of tension' in Italy (1969–1993) and the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan

chapter |16 pages

Making absence present

The September 11 memorial 1

chapter |14 pages

The Madrid 2004 bombing

Understanding the puzzle of 11-M's flawed commemorative process

chapter |14 pages

Remembering 7/7

The collective shaping of survivors' personal memories of the 2005 London bombing

part |90 pages

Body and ecosystems

chapter |15 pages

Dancing the present

Body memory and quantum field theory

chapter |16 pages

Implicit memory, emotional experience and self-regulation

The heart's role in raising our consciousness baseline

chapter |11 pages

Cell memory of an ancestral state

Going backward across our life span to resume self-healing abilities

chapter |11 pages

Memory of water

Storage of information and spontaneous growth of knowledge