1st Edition

Defending Memory in Global Politics Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis

Edited By Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė, Douglas Becker Copyright 2025
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the securitization of memory in times of crisis using overlooked cases from the Global South and the Global North. Instead of focusing exclusively on national identities and state actors, it explores various identities, including substate and transnational actors, and their role in “defending memory” during times of crisis. Embracing a broad definition of conflict that... Read more

Introduction: The Securitization of Memory in the Context of Crisis

Erica Resende, Dovilė Budrytė, and Douglas Becker

Part 1: States Defending Memory

1. Securitizing the Past in Colombia? The Mnemonical Disputes over the Taking of the Palace of Justice in 1985

Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos and Rodrigo Mezú

2. The Controversies of Memory Politics in Authoritarian Chechnya

Marat Iliyasov

3. The Securitization of Memory and the Practice of Public History in the Baltic States

Violeta Davoliute

4. Memory Contestation and Violence: The Battle over the US Civil War Narrative and Variations of Mnemonic In/Security

Douglas Becker

5. Framing, Naming, and Claiming Cultural Heritage in Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh: Mass Media and Cultural Heritage as Mnemonic Battlegrounds

Maria Armoudian and Olivia Guyodo

Part 2: Non-State Actors Defending Memory

6. When Memory Is Not Defended: Precarity and Political Imprisonment in Myanmar

Seinenu M. Thein Lemelson

7. Contesting Memories in and of Bhutan: Diaspora Radio as a Mnemonic Challenge

Susan Banki and I.P. Adhikari

8. Speaking for the Dead in Brazil: Mothers as Memory Activists for Justice and Change

Erica Resende and Izadora Xavier do Monte

9. Trauma Visualization: The Role of Transnational Actors in the Mnemonic Preservation and Promotion of Holodomor Narratives in Canada

Milana Nikolko and Klavdia Tatar

10. Russian Securitization of Memory and Multiple Anxieties: Defending Memory through the Diasporic Film Haytarma

Didem Buhari

11. Gender, War and Remembrance: ‘Heroic Subjects’ in Lithuania’s Memory Regime of Fighting and Suffering

Dovilė Budrytė

12. Conclusion: Defending Memory at the Frontiers of War in Europe

Neringa Klumbytė

Biography

Erica Resende is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Security Studies at the Brazilian War College, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dovilė Budrytė is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA, and a member of EUROPAST project at Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Douglas Becker is Associate Teaching Professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, and in Environmental Studies at University of Southern California Dornsife, USA.