Whether we think of statues, plaques, street-names, practices,
material or intangible forms of remembrance, the language of
collective memory is everywhere, installed in the name of not only
nations, or even empires, but also an international past. The
essays in Sites of International Memory address the notion of a
shared past, and how this idea is promulgated through sites and
commemorative gestures that create or promote cultural memory of
such global issues as wars, genocide, and movements of
cross-national trade and commerce, as well as resistance and
revolution. In doing so, this edited collection asks: Where are the
sites of international memory? What are the elements of such
memories of international pasts, and of internationalism? How and
why have we remembered or forgotten “sites” of international
memory? Which elements of these international pasts are useful in
the present? Some contributors address specific sites and
moments—World War II, liberation movements in India and Ethiopia,
commemorations of genocide—while other pieces concentrate more on
the theoretical, on the idea of cultural memory. UNESCO’s
presence looms large in the volume, as it is the most visible and
iconic international organization devoted to creating critical
heritage studies on a world stage. Formed in the aftermath of World
War II, UNESCO was instrumental in promoting the idea of a
“humanity” that exists beyond national, regional, or cultural
borders or definitions. Since then, UNESCO’s diplomatic and
institutional channels have become the sites at which competing
notions of international, world, and “human” communities have
jostled in conjunction with politically specific understandings of
cultural value and human rights. This volume has been assembled to
investigate sites of international memory that commemorate a past
when it was possible to imagine, identify, and invoke
“international” ideas, institutions, and experiences, in
diverse, historically situated contexts. Contributors:Dominique
Biehl, Kristal Buckley, Roland Burke, Kate Darian-Smith, Sarah C.
Dunstan, David Goodman, Madeleine Herren, Philippa Hetherington,
Rohan Howitt, Alanna O’Malley, Eric Paglia, Glenda Sluga, Sverker
Sörlin, Carolien Stolte, Beatrice Wayne, Ralph Weber, Jay Winter.
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