Memories on the Move - Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past

'Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.' - Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA
'Memories on the Move is a brilliant edited volume that fills an important gap in the field of memory studies as it weaves together issues of mobility and remembering. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographical cases, it offers a rich and complex portrait of mnemonic constructions in the context of forced migration, exile and transnationalism. It is clearly a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, historians and political scientists as well as for all scholars interested in the contemporary dynamics of memory, identity and mobility.' - David Berliner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
'This thought-provoking volume disentangles, ethnographically, the complexity of meaning-making practices of memory/forgetting in various contexts of (im)mobility.' - Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, Belgium
Bringing together vivid ethnographic material, this book opens up a timely conversation between memory and mobility/migration studies. It goes beyond the idea of the nation state as the primary unit of analysis to explore how people on the move use different forms and media of remembering to make sense of their lives and act as political subjects. Investigating when and by what means people on the move remember and communicate memories in the context of various forms of (im)mobility, the authors examine photographs, films, the reinhabiting of pre-exilic homes, pseudo-historical performances, transgenerational mnemonic gatherings and transnational political activism. This edited collection will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, human geography, history and oral history. 

List of contents

Introduction: Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past; Jelena Tosic and Monika Palmberger.- Part I. Mnemonic Dimensions of Exile .- Chapter 1. Shifting Sites: Memories of War and Exile across Time and Place; Marita Eastmond.- Chapter 2. Refugee Camp as Mediating Locality: Memory and Place in Protracted Exile; Dorota Woroniecka--Krzyzanowska.- Chapter 3. Ambivalent Sites of Memories: The Meaning of Family Homes for Transnational Families; Sanda Üllen.- Part II. Mediating Memories on the Move.- Chapter 4. Memory in Motion: Photographs in Suitcases; Natalia Alonso Rey.- Chapter 5. Mobile Temporalities: Place, Ruination and the Dialectics of Time; Annika Lems.- Chapter 6. 'We Do Really Need Hollywood': Filmmaking and Remembrance of Acts of Genocide in the Kurdish Transnation; Maria Six--Hohenbalken.- Part III. Legacies and Politics of Memory.- Chapter 7. Remembering the Unfulfilled Dream of Jewish Life in Postwar Communist Poland; Kamila Dabrowska.- Chapter8. Nomadism and Nostalgia in Hungary; László Kürti.- Chapter 9. A Past that Hurts: Memory, Politics and Transnationalism between Bangladesh and Portugal; José Mapril.- Moving Memories and Memories of Moves: Some Afterthoughts; Karen Fog Olwig. 

About the author

Monika Palmberger is Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Research

Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Jelena Tošić is Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Lecturer at the

University of Bern, Switzerland.

Summary

‘Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.’ 

- Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA

‘Memories on the Move is a brilliant edited volume that fills an important gap in the field of memory studies as it weaves together issues of mobility and remembering. Drawing on fine-grained ethnographical cases, it offers a rich and complex portrait of mnemonic constructions in the context of forced migration, exile and transnationalism. It is clearly a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, historians and political scientists as well as for all scholars interested in the contemporary dynamics of memory, identity and mobility.’ 

– David Berliner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

‘This thought-provoking volume disentangles, ethnographically, the complexity of meaning-making practices of memory/forgetting in various contexts of (im)mobility.’ 

- Noel B. Salazar, University of Leuven, Belgium

Bringing together vivid ethnographic material, this book opens up a timely conversation between memory and mobility/migration studies. It goes beyond the idea of the nation state as the primary unit of analysis to explore how people on the move use different forms and media of remembering to make sense of their lives and act as political subjects. Investigating when and by what means people on the move remember and communicate memories in the context of various forms of (im)mobility, the authors examine photographs, films, the reinhabiting of pre-exilic homes, pseudo-historical performances, transgenerational mnemonic gatherings and transnational political activism. This edited collection will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, human geography, history and oral history. 

Product details

• Authors: Monika Palmberger
• Assisted by: Monik Palmberger (Editor), Monika Palmberger (Editor), Jelena To¿i¿ (Editor), Tosic (Editor), Tosic (Editor), Jelena Tosic (Editor), Jelena Tošić (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2017
• EAN: 9781137575487
• ISBN: 978-1-137-57548-7
• No. of pages: 293
• Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship; Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories