Memories of Diversity - Diversity of MemoryMémoires de la diversité - Diversité de la mémoire

How do diversity and memory mutually shape one another? This volume of the IRTG Diversity Series shows that a focus on memory introduces an important and contested temporal dimension to the politics, practices, and narratives of diversity. Exploring the various entanglements of historical projections and representations of and from the past with contemporary discourses on difference and inclusion, the articles in this collection problematize memory in relationship to three (often overlapping) modes of storytelling: literature, ethno-biography, and historiography. From the construction of diasporic identities to family migration histories to the conflicted politics of remembering, memories shape diversity, be they in the form of shared memories, divided memories, or conflicting memories.

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Laurence McFalls is Professor of Political Science at Université de Montréal as well as director of the Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes and of the International Research Training Group Diversity: Mediating Difference in TransculturalSpaces. His research interests include social theory, German politics and culture since re-unification, GDR history and memory politics, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and the emergence of new modes of therapeutic domination. His recent books are Construire le politique: causalité, contingence et connaissance (2006) andMax Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered (2007). Together with Mariella Pandolfi, he has published numerous articles and book chapters offering a critical analysis of contemporary humanitarian and neoliberal politics.