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Migration is most concretely defined by the movement of human bodies, but it leaves indelible traces on everything from individual psychology to major social movements. Drawing on extensive field research, and with a special focus on Italy and the Netherlands, this interdisciplinary volume explores the interrelationship of migration and memory at scales both large and small, ranging across topics that include oral and visual forms of memory, archives, and artistic innovations. By engaging with the complex tensions between roots and routes, minds and bodies, The Mobility of Memory offers an incisive and empirically grounded perspective on a social phenomenon that continues to reshape both Europe and the world.
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Acknowledgments
Preamble: The Mobility of Memory in the Context of Intersubjectivity
Luisa Passerini Introduction: Europe and Beyond
Milica Trakilovic and Gabriele Proglio Part I: Mobility Framed by Language: Constraints and Possibilities Chapter 1. Between "Fleeing" and "Taking Flight": Negotiating the Refugee Label
Milica Trakilovic Chapter 2. "Languages of Mobility/Mobility of Languages": Between Words and Imagery
Giada Giustetto Part II: Transcultural Subjectivities in Educational Settings Chapter 3. Represented Bodies, Broken Bodies: Visions of Transnational Subjectivities and Memories among Italian Students
Graziella Bonansea Chapter 4. Transcultural Itineraries and New Literacies: How Memories Could Reshape School Systems
Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman, Sergio Baauw, Debbie Cole, Suzanne Dekker, and Marie Steffens Part III: Diasporic Memories and Archival Trajectories Chapter 5. Conceptualizing Diasporic Memory: Temporalities and the Geography of Emotions in Eritreans' Oral Tales
Gabriele Proglio Chapter 6. Eva Nera Reloaded: An Archive in the Making
Liliana Ellena Part IV: Visualizing Memory and Resistance Chapter 7. Counter-Images of Migration: (Visual) Memories of Refugee Migration That Resist an Anti-Immigrant Discourse
Iris van Huis Chapter 8. Visualizing Violence: Political Imaginations from the Syrian Diaspora in the Netherlands
Sara Verderi Epilogue: Bodies Crossing Borders
Rosemarie Buikema Index
About the author
Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita of History at the European University Institute, Florence, and former Principal Investigator of the European Research Project “Bodies across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond.”
Milica Trakilović is Assistant Professor in the Graduate Gender Programme of the Media and Culture Studies Department at Utrecht University and was formerly Research Assistant with the European Research Project “Bodies across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond.”
Gabriele Proglio is Associate Professor of Cultural History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, in Pollenzo, Italy and former Research Assistant with the European Research Project “Bodies across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond.”
Summary
During five years of field research in Italy and the Netherlands, the "Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond" (BABE) team examined the connection between mobility and memory in Europe.
