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This book analyses top-down and bottom-up strategies of framing the nation and collective identities through commemorative practices relating to events from World War Two and the 1990s `Homeland War¿ in Croatia.

This book explores the ways in which the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s have been publicly remembered, shedding new light on the complex entanglements between colonial pasts and political memories of anti-colonialism in shaping new nations arising out of liberation struggles.

This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past.

Bringing together the work of social scientists and historians, this book explores the politics of memory in Ukraine and Poland, presenting studies of the creation of memory in education, mass media and on a local level, and considering the implications of changing national historical cultures for relations between the states.

This book examines the paradox of collective identity in eastern Germany, showing that questions raised about the identity of citizens of the former GDR in the wake of German reunification remain even today as a result of the contradictory ways in which easterners have remembered their past.

This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Using lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, it questions how memory and recovery is being constituted through larger discourses of political claims of moving forward, healing, and identity.

An enquiry into the social science of remembrance and forgiveness in global episodes of genocide and mass violence during the post-Holocaust era, this volume explores the ways in which these have changed over time and how remembrance and forgiveness have been used in more recent cases of genocide and mass violence.

Contemporary interest in memory projects has much to do with a profound change of our sense of time and space, motivated and caused by factors such as technological change, the information revolution and new global trends in consumption and mobility. With information about all kinds of historical events now freely available, what can geographical sites communicate that is substantially different to that available in other forms (such as books, video, and internet)? As three-dimensional places upon which a certain kind of cultural ritual is enacted, historical sites are more complex than a written or visual source, and less easy to read. The genius loci - the spirit of the site - is often hard to describe, but doubtlessly felt to be perceptible. This essence makes people feel that they share past experiences; as if being in the same space once inhabited by others can, to an extent, collapse time and provide direct access to history. To explore these themes, Paul Williams uses insights from his professional work over the past decade in planning and interpreting heritage sites worldwide located on site-specific places. Each chapter analyses a separate project relating to slavery, the Cold War, political persecution, and terrorism to form a base for an interwoven comparative study and broader discussion. Taken together, they show how concepts of Les Lieux de Mémoire, to use Pierre Nora’s now 30-year old founding concept, have evolved in the twenty-first century.

This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Drawing on different interpretations of what constitutes `crisis¿, this collection uses lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, to question how memory and recovery is being constituted through larger discourses of political claims of moving forward, healing, and identity.