Chapter 1 A FIELD-THEORETICAL APPROACH TO MEMORY POLITICS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. Part I FOUNDATIONS
6. INTRODUCTION Agency and Practice in the Making of Transnational Memory Spaces 3
7. Chapter 1 A FIELD-THEORETICAL APPROACH TO MEMORY POLITICS 24
8. Part II Bottom-Up Agency
9. Chapter 2 Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case 47
10. Chapter 3 Online Transnational Memory Activism and Commemoration: The Case of the White Armband Day 68
11. Chapter 4 MEMORY ACTIVISM ACROSS BORDERS The Transformative Influence of the Argentinean-Franco Court Case and Activist Protest Movements on Spain’s Recovery of Historical Memory 92
12. Chapter 5 THE CREATION AND UTILIZATION OF OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES FOR TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM ON WORLD WAR II SEXUAL SLAVERY IN ASIA 113
13. Chapter 6 THE POLITICAL AGENCY OF VICTIMS THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL PROCESSES OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND MEMORY CONSTRUCTION IN LATIN AMERICA 135
14. Chapter 7 TRANSNATIONAL PLACE-MAKING AFTER POLITICAL VIOLENCE Agencies and Practices of Site Memorialization in the Latin American Southern Cone 155
15. Part III TOP-DOWN AGENCY
16. Chapter 8 MY GRIEF, OUR GRIEVANCE Universal Human Rights and Memory Standardization in Liberia’s Truth Commission 179
17. Chapter 9 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN PUBLIC Communicating Transnational Memories of Mass Violence 199
18. Chapter 10 TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY MOVEMENTS IN THE 9/11 MUSEUM 220
19. Part IV HORIZONTAL AGENCY
20. Chapter 11 LINKS TO THE PAST, BRIDGES FOR THE PRESENT? Recognition among Memory Organizations in a European Network 241
21. Chapter 12 “Life Was a Precarious Dance” Graphic Narration and the Construction of a Transcultural Memory Space in the PositiveNegatives Project 261
22. Chapter 13 A TRANSNATIONAL NATION Roma National Identity in the Making 284
23. Chapter 14 BORDER-CROSSING CULTURAL INITIATIVES OF MEMORY AND RECONCILIATION ACROSS THE COLOMBIA-PANAMA BORDER 307
24. Part V OUTLOOK
25. CONCLUSIONS Agency in Transnational Memory Politics— Guidelines for Inquiry 331
26. INDEX 341