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Local memories in a nationalizing and globalizing world, edited by Marnix Beyen, Senior Lecturer in modern political history, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Brecht Deseure, Postdoctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Local memories in a nationalizing and globalizing world

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890621949

edited by Marnix Beyen, Senior Lecturer in modern political history, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Brecht Deseure, Postdoctoral researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

"In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political elites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors. Within this negotiation process, the authors focus on the important contribution of processes occurring at a local level. These can either generate entirely new memories, or bestow nationally forged sites of memory with innovative, sometimes subversive meanings. As many cases in this book attest, local memories can be at the same time eminently transnational: they can reflect the concrete--more or less harmonious--co-existence of several groups on the same territory, or the willingness to bring about reconciliation between nations at a site of common mourning"--, Provided by publisher

1. Introduction: Local, National, Transnational Memories : A Triangular Relationship / Marnix Beyen -- PART I. POLITICS OF URBAN MEMORY -- 2. Physical Space, Urban Space, Civic Space : Rotterdam's Inhabitants and their Appropriation of the City's Past / Willem Frijhoff -- 3. Politics of Street Names : Local, National, Transnational Budapest / Emilia Palonen -- 4. Transfer Zones : German and Global Suffering in Dresden / Mathias Berek -- 5. Manufacturing Local Identification behind the Iron Curtain in Sevastopol, Ukraine after World War II / Karl D. Qualls -- 6. Local memories in a Contested Borderland : Commemorations in Strasbourg between France, Germany and Europe / Thomas Williams -- PART II. PLACES AND PRACTICES OF SUBALTERN MEMORY -- 7. Displacements and Hidden Histories : Museums, Locality and the British Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Geoffrey Cubitt -- 8. Structures of Collective Memory : The Last Bannerman in Local Japan / Michael Wert -- 9. Remembering Padre Cicero : Local, Regional and National Memory in Northeastern Brazil / Gerald Greenfield -- 10. "Reconciliation across the graves?" : The German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn as a Place of Remembrance between Local and (Inter)national Areas of Conflict, 1945-2000 / Christine Gundermann -- 11. Local and counter-memories in Post-Socialist Romania / Duncan Light and Craig Young -- 12. Greetings from Borgerocco : an Antwerp Neighborhood as a National Icon of Globalization and Anti-Globalism / Marnix Beyen -- 13. Memories on the Move : the Italian Student Movement of 1977 between Local, National and Global Memories of Protest / Andrea Hajek