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How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the nation-states whose peoples once were united under the aegis of Ottoman suzerainty, this volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time. Developing the concept of topology, contributors explore collective memories of Ottoman identity and post-Ottoman state formation in a contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term "late nationalism".
List of contents
Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Nicolas Argenti Chapter 1. Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central Greece
Daniel M. Knight Chapter 2. Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
David Henig Chapter 3. Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of Senselessness
Alice von Bieberstein Chapter 4. The Material Life of War at the Greek Border
Laurie Kain Hart Chapter 5. (Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media Event
Penelope Papailias Chapter 6. Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in Lesbos
Séverine Rey Chapter 7. "Eyes Shut, Muted Voices": Narrating and Temporalizing the Post-Civil War Era through a Monument
Dimitra Gefou-Madianou Chapter 8. Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World
Charles Stewart Bibliography
Index
About the author
Nicolas Argenti is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. He is the author of The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (2007) and coeditor of several collections, including (with Katharina Schramm) Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (2010).
