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Book Synopsis Focusing on the memory of the German Democratic Republic, Towards a Collaborative Memory explores the cross-border collaborations of three German institutions. Using an innovative theoretical and methodological framework, drawing on relational sociology, network analysis and narrative, the study highlights the epistemic coloniality that has underpinned global partnerships across European actors and institutions. Sara Jones reconceptualizes transnational memory towards an approach that is collaborative not only in its practices, but also in its ethics, and shows how these institutions position themselves within dominant relationship cultures reflected between East and West, and North and South.
Trade Review “Jones draws on an impressive number of unique primary sources, and her review of the literature on memory scholarship is thorough. Readers in several disciplines and at different levels of expertise will find much to like here. No recent work is comparable…Highly Recommended.” • Choice
Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: German Memory Work in Transnational Context
Chapter 1. Towards a Collaborative Memory: A Framework and a Method
Chapter 2. Tracing the Shape of Transnational Collaboration
Chapter 3. Narratives of a Shared Past: Central and Eastern European, Western European and Post Soviet Memory Zones
Chapter 4. Narratives of their Present and Future: East Asian and MENA Memory Zones
Chapter 5. Connecting Memory: Transzonal Brokers
Chapter 6. The National in the Transnational: Intrazonal Brokers
Conclusion: A Collaborative Memory Not Yet Achieved
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