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

Autor(en)

Monika Palmberger

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Seiten

1-16

Anzahl der Seiten

16

DOI

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

Publikationsdatum

2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504001 Allgemeine Soziologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

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

Link zum Portal

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