Memory Studies: Global Constellations
About the Book Series
Memory Studies as an academic field of cultural inquiry emerges at a time when global public debates, buttressed by the fragmentation of nation states and their traditional narratives, have greatly accelerated. Societies are today pregnant with newly unmediated memories, once sequestered in broad collective representations and their ideological stances. But, the ‘past in the present’ has returned with a vengeance in the early 21st Century, and with it an expansion of categories of cultural experience and meaning. This new series explores the social and cultural stakes around forgetting, useful forgetting and remembering, locally, regionally, nationally and globally. It welcomes studies of migrant memory from failed states; micro-histories battling against collective memories; the mnemonic past of emotions; the mnemonic spatiality of sites of memory; and the reconstructive ethics of memory in the face of galloping informationalization, as this renders the ‘mnemonic’ more and more public and publically accessible.
Beyond Empire: Memory and Migration in Lusophone and Luso-Creole Cities
1st Edition
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By Christoph Kalter, Elsa Peralta, Jonas Prinzleve
February 12, 2027
Beyond Empire: Memory and Migration in Lusophone and Luso-Creole Cities brings together innovative scholarship from a variety of disciplines to rethink the afterlives of the Portuguese empire in a global urban present. Drawing on case studies from Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America, the volume...
Memory Politics and European Integration: Swan Song of the Iron Curtain
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By Oliver Schmidtke, Beata Halicka, Piotr Oleksy, Birte Wassenberg
February 08, 2027
This book examines the relationship between collective memory, democracy, and European integration through a comparative analysis of Germany and Poland. Exploring how competing interpretations of the past shape the future of Europe, it argues that historical narratives remain powerful political ...
The Transformative Power of Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Europe: East-West Perceptions and Memory
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By Simona Mitroiu, Marleen Rensen, Anna Seidl, Ivana Taranenkova, Catherine Teissier
October 23, 2026
This edited volume explores how women’s life writing from post-Communist Europe turns the continent’s most persistent fault line – the East–West divide – into a space of confrontation, vulnerability, and radical reimagining. Examining personal narratives from seven European countries (Poland, ...
Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania: Fluid Memories
1st Edition
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By Monica Ciobanu, Mihaela Şerban
August 27, 2026
The first of its kind, this book traces the construction of post-memory in post-communist Romania. Focusing on the processes, gaps, agents, and contradictions of post-memory, it examines a range of topics across a variety of disciplines, addressing questions of museums and musealization, law and ...
Forest as Commemoration in Jewish-Israeli Memory Culture: A Study in Environmental Memory
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By Maria Piekarska-Baronet
March 23, 2026
Situated within the broadly understood subfield of environmental memory studies, this book explores Israeli forests as spaces of commemoration. It investigates their significance in the Jewish‑Israeli memory culture over the last century, as well as their role as a recurrent form of environmental ...
Memory in Postmigration Communities: Field of Memory
1st Edition
By Małgorzata Łukianow
March 16, 2026
This book offers an exploration of Postmigration memory fields—spaces where multiple and often conflicting memory narratives of the same past event intersect within a limited locality. Focusing on Poland and the remembrance of the postwar and post-communist periods, it examines what happens when ...
Forgetting Polish Violence Against the Jews: The Great Whitewash
1st Edition
By Tomasz Żukowski
January 30, 2026
During the Holocaust, Polish bystanders were witnesses not only to Nazi crimes but also to their own collective violence toward Jewish neighbors. This book shows how these memories continue to be distorted and silenced in the Polish culture. Considering the ways in which Polish culture displays ...
Intergenerational Trauma in Refugee Communities
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By Laura Kromják, Ajlina Karamehić-Muratović
January 30, 2026
This volume explores intergenerational trauma among refugee communities displaced throughout the world. Considering patterns and findings across disciplines, cultural contexts, and methodologies, the volume addresses the way trauma is passed on generationally among populations characterized by a ...
Memory Politics and Building Multinational States in Africa: Collective Memory, Identity Conflict, and Constitution-Making in Ethiopia
1st Edition
By Ashagrie G. Abdi
December 31, 2025
This book tackles the fundamental question of how a society with competing collective memories and visions can build a common nation while trying to reconcile the past and forge a common future. Delving into the complex interplay between collective memory, identity, nation-building, and ...
Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders
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By Jan Borowicz
May 27, 2025
Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work, in which surface a series of...
The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past
1st Edition
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By Miguel Cardina
December 18, 2024
The Portuguese Colonial War and the African Liberation Struggles: Memory, Politics and Uses of the Past presents a critical and comparative analysis on the memory of the colonial and liberation wars that led to a regime change in Portugal and to the independence of five new African countries: ...
Memory Institutions and Sámi Heritage: Decolonization, Restitution, and Rematriation in Sápmi
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By Trude Fonneland, Rossella Ragazzi
December 09, 2024
With a focus on Sápmi – the transcultural and transnational homeland of the Sámi people – this book presents case studies and theoretical frameworks which explore the ways in which memory institutions such as museums, archives, and festivals participate in and guide processes of appropriation, ...