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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |70 pages
Theories and perspectives
part |64 pages
Cultural artifacts, symbols and social practices
part |77 pages
Public, transnational and transitional memories
chapter |15 pages
Globalization and/of memory
chapter |10 pages
The afterlife and renaissance of the Plastic People of the (twenty-first-century) Universe
part |107 pages
Technologies of memory
chapter |13 pages
Memory and future selves in futurist dystopian cinema
chapter |15 pages
Walking the autobiographical path
part |115 pages
Terror, violence and disasters
chapter |16 pages
An ‘unaccomplished memory'
chapter |14 pages
The Madrid 2004 bombing
chapter |14 pages
Remembering 7/7
part |90 pages
Body and ecosystems