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Book SynopsisThe first book to approach the study of memory and the past with an explicit focus on expounding and bridging modes of interpretation in the social sciences.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Interpreting Contentious Memories and Conflicts over the Past - Thomas DeGloma and Janet Jacobs Part 1: Interpreting Memories in the Social Dynamics of Contention 2 On the Social Distribution of Soldiers’ Memories: Normalization, Trauma, and Morality - Edna Lomsky-Feder 3. Feminist Approaches to Studying Memory and Mass Atrocity - Nicole Fox 4. Mobilizing Memories: Remembrance as a Social Movement Tool in the Vieques Anti-Military Movement (1999–2004) - Roberto Vélez-Vélez 5. The Ballot of Donald and Hillary: Hateful Memories of Celebrity Leaders - Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, and Cal Abbo Part 2: Racism, Exclusion, and Mnemonic Conflict 6. Building a Case for Citizenship: Countermemory Work among Deported Veterans - Sofya Aptekar 7. Commemorations as Transformative Events: Collective Memory, Temporality, and Social Change - Claire Whitlinger 8. Contentious Pasts, Contentious Futures: Race, Memory, and Politics in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum - Amy Sodaro Part 3: Genocide, Memory, and the Historicizing of Trauma 9. Remembrance and Historicization: Transformation of Individual and Collective Memory Processes in the Federal Republic of Germany - Werner Bohleber 10. Enlisting Lived Memory: From Traumatic Silence to Authentic Witnessing - Carol A. Kidron 11. Changing Memories of the Shoah in Post-Communist Countries: New Memories and Conflicts - Selma Leydesdorff 12. How Difficult Pasts Complicate the Present: Comparative Analysis of the Genocides in Western Armenia and Rwanda - Jacob Caponi and Fatma Müge Göçek 13. Conclusion: Memory and the Social Dynamics of Conflict and Contention: Interpretive Lenses for New Cases and Controversies - Janet Jacobs and Thomas DeGloma
