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European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and
populism in contemporary Europe. Focusing on circulating ideas of
memory, especially European memory, in contemporary populist
discourses, the book also analyses populist ideas in sites and
practices of remembrance that usually tend to go unnoticed. More
broadly, the theoretical heart of the book reflects upon the
similarities, differences, and slippages between memory, populism,
nationalism, and cultural racism and the ways in which social
memory contributes to give substance to various ideas of what
constitutes the ‘people’ in populist discourse and beyond.
Bringing together a group of political scientists, anthropologists,
and cultural and memory studies scholars, the book illuminates the
relationship between memory and populism from different angles and
in different contexts. The contributors to the volume discuss
dominant notions of European heritage that circulate in the public
sphere and in political discourse, and consider how the politics of
fear relates to such notions of European heritage and identity
across and beyond Europe and the European Union. Ultimately, this
volume will shed light on how notions of a shared European heritage
and memory can be used not only to include and connect Europeans,
but also to exclude some of them. Investigating the ways in which
nationalist populist forces mobilize the idea of a shared,
homogeneous European civilization, European Memory in Populism will
be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of European
studies, heritage and memory studies, migration studies,
anthropology, political science and sociology. Chapters 1, 4, 6,
and 10 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives 4.0 license.
European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and
populism in contemporary Europe. Focusing on circulating ideas of
memory, especially European memory, in contemporary populist
discourses, the book also analyses populist ideas in sites and
practices of remembrance that usually tend to go unnoticed. More
broadly, the theoretical heart of the book reflects upon the
similarities, differences, and slippages between memory, populism,
nationalism, and cultural racism and the ways in which social
memory contributes to give substance to various ideas of what
constitutes the ‘people’ in populist discourse and beyond.
Bringing together a group of political scientists, anthropologists,
and cultural and memory studies scholars, the book illuminates the
relationship between memory and populism from different angles and
in different contexts. The contributors to the volume discuss
dominant notions of European heritage that circulate in the public
sphere and in political discourse, and consider how the politics of
fear relates to such notions of European heritage and identity
across and beyond Europe and the European Union. Ultimately, this
volume will shed light on how notions of a shared European heritage
and memory can be used not only to include and connect Europeans,
but also to exclude some of them. Investigating the ways in which
nationalist populist forces mobilize the idea of a shared,
homogeneous European civilization, European Memory in Populism will
be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of European
studies, heritage and memory studies, migration studies,
anthropology, political science and sociology. Chapters 1, 4, 6,
and 10 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives 4.0 license.
How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How
to understand the enduring role of national memories and their
simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the
methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the
study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production
of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the
fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach,
it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of
remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds
new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality,
migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember
and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this
interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science
scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century
on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the
Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range
of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to
heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a
new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools
and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the
nation-state.
How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How
to understand the enduring role of national memories and their
simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the
methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the
study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production
of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the
fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach,
it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of
remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds
new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality,
migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember
and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this
interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science
scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century
on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the
Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range
of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to
heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a
new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools
and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the
nation-state.
In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched
numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West
Bank in response to the enduring Israeli occupation. These efforts
to reclaim and assert Palestinian heritage differ significantly
from the typical global cultural project: here it is people's
cultural memory and living environment, rather than ancient history
and archaeology, that take center stage. It is local civil society
and NGOs, not state actors, who are "doing" heritage. In this
context, Palestinian heritage has become not just a practice of
resistance, but a resourceful mode of governing the Palestinian
landscape. With this book, Chiara De Cesari examines these
Palestinian heritage projects-notably the Hebron Rehabilitation
Committee, Riwaq, and the Palestinian Museum-and the transnational
actors, practices, and material sites they mobilize to create new
institutions in the absence of a sovereign state. Through their
rehabilitation of Palestinian heritage, these organizations have
halted the expansion of Israeli settlements. They have also given
Palestinians opportunities to rethink and transform state
functions. Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine reveals
how the West Bank is home to creative experimentation, insurgent
agencies, and resourceful attempts to reverse colonial violence-and
a model of how things could be.
In recent decades, Palestinian heritage organizations have launched
numerous urban regeneration and museum projects across the West
Bank in response to the enduring Israeli occupation. These efforts
to reclaim and assert Palestinian heritage differ significantly
from the typical global cultural project: here it is people's
cultural memory and living environment, rather than ancient history
and archaeology, that take center stage. It is local civil society
and NGOs, not state actors, who are "doing" heritage. In this
context, Palestinian heritage has become not just a practice of
resistance, but a resourceful mode of governing the Palestinian
landscape. With this book, Chiara De Cesari examines these
Palestinian heritage projects—notably the Hebron Rehabilitation
Committee, Riwaq, and the Palestinian Museum—and the
transnational actors, practices, and material sites they mobilize
to create new institutions in the absence of a sovereign state.
Through their rehabilitation of Palestinian heritage, these
organizations have halted the expansion of Israeli settlements.
They have also given Palestinians opportunities to rethink and
transform state functions. Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for
Palestine reveals how the West Bank is home to creative
experimentation, insurgent agencies, and resourceful attempts to
reverse colonial violence—and a model of how things could be.
How do cultural institutions and art practices respond to
long-standing states of national and international emergency? It is
with these questions in mind that Khalil Rabah's artistic practice
investigates the future of visual arts production under such
conditions. Exploring the relationships between historically
sanctioned and experimental exhibition settings, fictional and
documentative narratives, and the histories of displacement, his
methods not only propose but produce speculative institutions. As
the artist's first major monograph, Falling Forward / Works
(1997-2025) presents a comprehensive selection of exhibition
materials, previously unseen archival documents, and detailed
background notes on how Rabah's methods relate to broader themes in
his work. The volume also introduces new critical writing from
curators, authors, and researchers on the interrelated subjects of
anticipatory aesthetics, subterfuge and fugitive acts, mimicry and
performativity, knowledge production, archival technologies and,
crucially, the politics of humor.
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