The Social Life of Memory
Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco
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Beschreibung
This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco. In making a claim for ‘the social life of memory,’ the introduction discusses a particular research field of memory studies, elaborating an approach to memory in terms of social production and engagement. The Arab Spring is evoked to draw attention to new rifts within and between history and remembrance in the regions of North Africa and the Middle East. As authoritarian forms of governance are challenged, official panoramic narratives are confronted with a multiplicity of memories of violent pasts. The eight chapters trace personal and public inventories of violence, trauma, and testimony, addressing memory in cinema, in newspapers and periodicals, as an experience of public environments, through transnational and diasporic mediums, and amongst younger generations.
Stakes a critical claim for attending to the tension between the lieu and milieu of memory, a tension implicating site-specific social practices Brings together research from scholars across the humanities and social sciences within a cohesive framework Addresses themes of violence, trauma, and testimony to illustrate how they accrue conceptual relevance, and consequently a careful consideration of how concepts and theories "travel" and come to be exposed in different contexts and subsequently modified
Autor*in
Norman Saadi Nikro
Themen in »The Social Life of Memory«
Social Exchange Patterns of Recollection International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Social Life of Intergenerational Memory Lieu and of Memory Milieu of Memory