Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-conflict Settings

Table of contents

1. Eric Sangar, Valérie Rosoux, Anne Bazin & Emmanuelle Hébert: Introduction: "Memory fragmentation" as a new heuristic tool to grasp the dynamics of political uses of the past in conflict and post-conflict settings

2. Stipe Odak: Construction of Victimhood and its Fragmentation within National Frameworks

3. Johanna Mannergren Selimovic: Gender, Memory and Peace: Struggles between Homogenisation and Fragmentation

4. Élise Féron: Conflict memories and gender-based violence: from silencing to standardization

5. Élise Julien: The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: a century of memory negotiations in Germany

6. Thomas Serrier: Pluralism at stake: Rebelling provinces and the national master narrative in the German-Polish memories after the end of the Cold War

7. Delphine Griveaud & Solveig Hennebert: The PSG Ultras’ annual commemoration of the 13 November 2015 terrorist attacks: a window on collective memory

8. Sandra Rios Oyola: The Fragmentation of Historical Memory in Colombia

9. Emmanuelle Hébert: Transforming Polish-German Past: Toward a common narrative?

10. Valentin Behr: When historians contribute to the fragmentation of memories: The case of "Polish-Jewish relations" during World War II

11. Mathias Delori: Understanding the fragmentation of the memory of the Allied bombings of World War II: The role of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey

12. Christophe Wasinski: Present wars as catalysts of fragmented memories of past wars: the use of the Algerian War in the context of the French deployment in Afghanistan

13. Eric Sangar: "Hurra, wir können’s noch!": How NATO’s counterinsurgency doctrine uncovered German civil-military memory fragmentation

14. Antoine Younsi: "Paying a blood debt" or "Liberating Africa"? The postcolonial fragmentation of French military and political memory frames during the Operation Serval in Mali (2013-2014)

15. Valérie Rosoux: Can NGOs do away with the ‘tyranny of the past’? Strategies against memory fragmentation in Rwanda

16. Thomas Richard: ANNA News as a transnational memory entrepreneur? Uses of the Past in the Coverage of the Syrian Civil War by Russian-language media

17. Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hébert, Valérie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Conclusion: overall findings and implications for the heuristic and normative value of "memory fragmentation"

Biography

Eric Sangar is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, University of Lille, France, as well as Fellow at the Marc Bloch Centre, Berlin, Germany.

Valérie Rosoux is Research Director at the FNRS and Professor in Political Science at UCLouvain, Belgium, as well as Fellow at the Max Planck Institutes Luxembourg and Halle, Luxembourg and Germany.

Anne Bazin is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, University of Lille, France.

Emmanuelle Hébert External Scientific Fellow at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain Europe (ISPOLE) at UCLouvain, Belgium.

“Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State is a fine example of scholarship [following the mnemonic turn]. The contributors offer ‘an analytical model that differentiates two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation: “vertical fragmentation” and “horizontal fragmentation”’. The contributions emphasize two processes: of states losing monopoly over the definition of hegemonic memory frameworks and of how fragmentation is no longer understood as an aberration of remembering, but rather seen ‘as the very nature of the memory-work’ […]. The chapters on the roles of historians and the military are especially welcome […]. Similarly, the insights on transnational actors featured in the book fill in a gap in the literature, as the role of non-governmental organizations and news agencies as transnational memory agents has not been broadly explored. In addition, the book includes several chapters highlighting the role of gender in memory work, which is a very welcome contribution to the analysis of memory studies in global politics […]. Overall, the book makes an excellent contribution to the scholarship on memory studies.” - Erica Resende and Dovilė Budrytė, International Affairs