Introduction: Memories on the Move—Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past

Author(s)

Monika Palmberger

Abstract

Based on a review of the first interdisciplinary explorations of memory and migration, the Introduction highlights the need for closer ethnographic inspection of memory practices in the context of different mobility regimes. It underscores the importance of going beyond methodological nationalism while acknowledging the persistent power of the nation state both to regulate mobility and to define the past. Moreover, it draws attention to the agentive dimensions of memory practices, to how, when and by which means and media people on the move remember and communicate memories in various contexts of (im)mobility. Finally, it provides an overview of the book’s three parts: Mnemonic Dimensions of Exile, Mediating Memories on the Move and Legacies and Politics of Memory.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Pages

1-16

No. of pages

16

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57549-4_1

Publication date

2016

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504001 General sociology

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Sociology and Political Science

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d29a1939-8374-4d5f-acfc-12112daaad7d