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Book SynopsisThis book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. Providing insights into the relationship between memory and identity, the twelve chapters provide multidisciplinary analysis of how history is used to reinforce, remould, and reinvent national and group identities.
This analysis includes a strong emphasis on interrogating the role of the researcher and the impact of methodology, exploring the field’s most pressing challenges, such as the subjectivity of remembrance, reception versus production of discourse, and the inclusion of marginal perspectives.
By focussing on countries in which the past is highly politicised, including Serbia, Ukraine, Poland, Russia and the Baltic States, the volume also analyses the diverse – and often conflicting – ways in which historical narratives emerge from these states’ efforts to create new pasts that shape their respective visions of the future, with pressing ramifications across this region and beyond.
Table of Contents1 Memory Methods: An Introduction, Jade McGlynn and Oliver T JonesPart One: Subjectivity and the Ethics of Memory2 How to Make Subjectivity Your Friend and Not Your Enemy: Reflections on Writing with and through the “Authorial Self’, Juliane Fürst3 Unveiling the Researcher’s Self: Reflexive Notes on Ethnographic Engagements and Interdisciplinary Research Practices, Alina Jašina-Schäfer4 Dark Heritage Research Methods: A Case Study from Contemporary Russia, Margaret ComerPart Two: Locating and Situating the Past5 New Museums, New Challenges: Reflections on The Study of Online Museums in Central and Eastern Europe, Tadeusz Woytych6 Uncommemorated Sites of Violence: From Topographical to Topological Research Methods, Roma SendykaPart Three: Representation and Production of Cultural Memory7 Recollections May Vary: Researching Perpetrators Accounts of the 1932-1933 Famine, Daria Mattingly8 Memory Studies and the Analysis of Crossover Literature: Methodology and Case Study (Poland), Karoline Thaidigsmann9 Beyond Analogy: Historical Framing Analysis of Russian Political Discourse, Jade McGlynnPart Four: Memory Reception and the Grassroots10 Reception of Great Patriotic War Narratives: A Psychological Approach to Studying Collective Memory in Russia, Travis Frederick and Alin Coman11 Beyond the State Agency: Anti-Communist Memory Work in Post-Milošević Serbia, Jelena Đureinović12 Prisoners of a Myth: Soviet PoWs and Putinist Memory Politics, Howard Amos
