"Regions of memory" are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a variety of global memory regions in parallel. Moreover, it reveals lesser-known vectors and mechanisms of memory travel, such as across Cold War battle lines, across the Indian Ocean, or between Southeast Asia and western Europe.Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Simon Lewis is Associate Professor in East and Central European Cultural History at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Jeffrey K. Olick is William R.Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia, USA. He is Co-President of the Memory Studies Association.

Joanna Wawrzyniak is a historian and sociologist, Associate Professor and director of the Center for Research on Social Memory at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Malgorzata Pakier is Head of the Academic Section at European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.

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Simon Lewis is Associate Professor in East and Central European Cultural History at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Jeffrey K. Olick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia, USA. He is Co-President of the Memory Studies Association.

Joanna Wawrzyniak is a historian and sociologist, Associate Professor and director of the Center for Research on Social Memory at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Malgorzata Pakier is Head of the Academic Section at European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.

Inhalt

1. Simon Lewis and Joanna Wawrzyniak Introduction: Regions of Memory in Theory

   PART I: Historical Regions of Memory

   2. David Lowe and Tony Joel The Cold War and Regions of Memory

   3. Katharine McGregor Human Rights and Regions of Memory: The Case of the International People's Tribunal on Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia 1965

   4. Krishan Kumar The Legacy of Empire in East-Central Europe: Fractured Nations and Divided Loyalties

   PART II. Political Regions of Memory

   5. Dirk Moses Partisan History and the Eastern European Region of Memory

   6. Laura Pozzi China, the Maritime Silk Road, and the Memory of Colonialism in the Asia region

   PART III: Cultural Regions of Memory

   7. Ann Rigney Articulations of Memory: Mediation and the Making of Mnemo-Regions

   8. Ksenia Robbe Remembering the Violence of (De)colonization in Southern Africa: From Witnessing to Activist Genealogies in Literature and Film

   9. Hanna Teichler Transoceanic Entanglements: Remembering Forced Labor Migration in M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's Dust

   10. Jeffrey K. Olick Afterword: The Discourse of Regions