Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State

This volume suggests a model of collective memory that distinguishes between two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation, vertical fragmentation and horizontal fragmentation.

Autorentext

Eric Sangar is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, University of Lille, France, as well as Fellow at the Marc Bloch Centre, Berlin, Germany.

Valérie Rosoux is Research Director at the FNRS and Professor in Political Science at UCLouvain, Belgium, as well as Fellow at the Max Planck Institutes Luxembourg and Halle, Luxembourg and Germany.

Anne Bazin is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, University of Lille, France.

Emmanuelle Hébert External Scientific Fellow at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain Europe (ISPOLE) at UCLouvain, Belgium.

Inhalt

Table of contents

1. Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hébert, Valérie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Introduction: "Memory fragmentation" as a new heuristic tool to grasp the dynamics of political uses of the past in conflict and post-conflict settings

1. Civil society actors

2. Stipe Odak: Construction of Victimhood and its Fragmentation within National Frameworks

3. Johanna Mannergren Selimovic: Gender, Memory and Peace: Struggles between Homogenisation and Fragmentation

4. Elise Féron: Conflict memories and gender-based violence: from silencing to standardization

5. Elise Julien: The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: a century of memory negotiations in Germany

6. Thomas Serrier: Pluralism at stake: Rebelling provinces and the national master narrative in the German-Polish memories after the end of the Cold War

7. Delphine Griveaud & Solveig Hennebert: The PSG Ultras' annual commemoration of the 13 November 2015 terrorist attacks: a window on collective memory

1. Historians

2. Sandra Rios Oyola: The Fragmentation of Historical Memory in Colombia

3. Emmanuelle Hébert: Transforming Polish-German Past: Toward a common narrative?

4. Valentin Behr: When historians contribute to the fragmentation of memories: The case of "Polish-Jewish relations" during World War II

1. Soldiers and military organizations

2. Mathias Delori: Understanding the fragmentation of the memory of the Allied bombings of World War II: The role of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey

3. Christophe Wasinski: Present wars as catalysts of fragmented memories of past wars: the use of the Algerian War in the context of the French deployment in Afghanistan

4. Eric Sangar: "Hurra, wir können's noch!": How NATO's counterinsurgency doctrine uncovered German civil-military memory fragmentation

5. Antoine Younsi: "Paying a blood debt" or "Liberating Africa"? The postcolonial fragmentation of French military and political memory frames during the Operation Serval in Mali (2013-2014)

1. Transnational organizations

2. Valérie Rosoux: Can NGOs do away with the 'tyranny of the past'? Strategies against memory fragmentation in Rwanda

3. Thomas Richard: ANNA News as a transnational memory entrepreneur? Uses of the Past in the Coverage of the Syrian Civil War by Russian-language media

4. Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hébert, Valérie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Conclusion: overall findings and implications for the heuristic and normative value of "memory fragmentation"