Description
Book Synopsis Migration is most concretely defined by the movement of human bodies, but it leaves indelible traces on everything from individual psychology to major social movements. Drawing on extensive field research, and with a special focus on Italy and the Netherlands, this interdisciplinary volume explores the interrelationship of migration and memory at scales both large and small, ranging across topics that include oral and visual forms of memory, archives, and artistic innovations. By engaging with the complex tensions between roots and routes, minds and bodies, The Mobility of Memory offers an incisive and empirically grounded perspective on a social phenomenon that continues to reshape both Europe and the world.
Trade Review “The fieldwork that these authors have carried out for several years makes this book’s insights particularly valuable. Art and images are used in a rich and experimental way to discuss human rights struggles, narratives of memory and identity, changes needed in conceptualising identity and language, and more horizontal ways to address contemporary migration in education.” • Margaret Tali, University of Groningen
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preamble: The Mobility of Memory in the Context of Intersubjectivity
Luisa Passerini
Introduction: Europe and Beyond
Milica Trakilović and Gabriele Proglio
Part I: Mobility Framed by Language: Constraints and Possibilities
Chapter 1. Between “Fleeing” and “Taking Flight”: Negotiating the Refugee Label
Milica Trakilović
Chapter 2. “Languages of Mobility/Mobility of Languages”: Between Words and Imagery
Giada Giustetto
Part II: Transcultural Subjectivities in Educational Settings
Chapter 3. Represented Bodies, Broken Bodies: Visions of Transnational Subjectivities and Memories among Italian Students
Graziella Bonansea
Chapter 4. Transcultural Itineraries and New Literacies: How Memories Could Reshape School Systems
Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman, Sergio Baauw, Debbie Cole, Suzanne Dekker, and Marie Steffens
Part III: Diasporic Memories and Archival Trajectories
Chapter 5. Conceptualizing Diasporic Memory: Temporalities and the Geography of Emotions in Eritreans’ Oral Tales
Gabriele Proglio
Chapter 6. Eva Nera Reloaded: An Archive in the Making
Liliana Ellena
Part IV: Visualizing Memory and Resistance
Chapter 7. Counter-Images of Migration: (Visual) Memories of Refugee Migration That Resist an Anti-Immigrant Discourse
Iris van Huis
Chapter 8. Visualizing Violence: Political Imaginations from the Syrian Diaspora in the Netherlands
Sara Verderi
Epilogue: Bodies Crossing Borders
Rosemarie Buikema
Index
