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Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict Unwanted Memories

By Orli Fridman Copyright 2022
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

This book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism , emerging after conflict, as a political civic action. It examines the appearance and growth of memory activism in Serbia amid the legacies of unwanted memories of the wars of the 1990s, approaching the post-Yugoslav region as a region of memory and tracing the alternative calendars and alternative commemorative... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Memory Activism and Alternative Commemorative Practices after Conflict, Chapter 1. Unwanted memories of (the wars of) the 1990s, Chapter 2. 'Not in My Name' - From Anti-War to Memory Activism: The 1st Generation, Chapter 3. 'Too Young to Remember, Determined Never to Forget': The 2nd Generation, Chapter 4. Hashtag Memory Activism: Digital Memory Practices and Online Commemorations, Chapter 5. Regions of Memory: The Post-Yugoslav Space as a Region of Memory Activism, Epilogue: Unwanted Pasts in an Unresolved Present, Appendix 1. YIHR Transitional Justice Calendar, Appendix 2. March 2010 YIHR Announcement of 'Action to commemorate crimes committed in Kosovo in March and April 1999', Appendix 3. CPI Brochure: 'Program of guided tours to places of Suppressed memories', Appendix 4. Women's Court Invitation to Hear Public Testimonies in Sarajevo, May 2015, Bibliography

Biography

Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University where she heads the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS). She also is the academic director of the School for International Training (SIT) learning center in Belgrade.