258 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume introduces memoryscapes to explain how collective memory moves between conflict and healing. Through a dynamic framework and diverse cases, it shows how inclusive, participatory practices can transform violent pasts and foster accountability, reconciliation and sustainable peace. Readers gain a practical framework to analyze and shape memory work that supports healing,... Read more

Introduction Mohammad Musfequs Salehin, Marcela Douglas and Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws 

Part I. Memoryscapes of healing

Chapter 1. Indigeneity and sacred space in the memoryscapes of Tripura Åshild Kolås and Leitanthem Umakanta Meitei 

Chapter 2. Cultural Memory and the (re) Production of Identity among Refugees: A Case Study of Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre (RCMC) in Bangladesh Mizanur Rahman and Mohammad Musfequs Salehin

Chapter 3. Transforming Coldness into Love - From Chaos to Coherence: Memory Work after July 22 through a film project Marcela Douglas and Tatiana Wara

Part II. Memoryscapes of dissent

Chapter 4. Connecting Memoryscapes through Cosmologies of Resistance and Suffering in Thailand’s Political Struggles Marte Nilsen and Shintaro Hara

Chapter 5. ‘Investigating memoryscapes’. Conversations about creative expression in response to linguistic oppression Shwan Dler Qaradaki and Cindy Horst

Chapter 6. Deep-mapping Nicosia’s urban centre, 1960-2020: Monument building and the memoryscape(s) of a divided capital Antigone Heraclidou

Chapter 7. “Once about the past, twice about the future”: Historical memory as a foundation for peace education in Norway Joakim Arnøy

Chapter 8. A Study of the debate over Confederate symbols in American media Basak Taraktas

Part III. Memoryscapes of resistance 

Chapter 9. Making a Rural School a Memoryscape: Memory, Violence, and Peacebuilding in Southwest Colombia Adrián Alzate-García, Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo and Osmel Alexis Hoyos Buitrón

Chapter 10: The Belligerent Peace Nation Christine Smith-Simonsen

Chapter 11. Epilogue: Memories of Arctic Peace and Conflict Gunnar Rekvig

Chapter 12. Conclusion: Deep peace remembered Ana Luisa Sánchez Laws, Marcela Douglas and Mohammad Musfequs Salehin.

Biography

Mohammad Musfequs Salehin is an Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Centre for Geopolitics, Peace and Security, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. His key publications include Islamic NGOs in Bangladesh: Development, Piety and Neoliberal Governmentality and The Rohingya dilemma: Exploring the challenges of local integration in Bangladesh, focusing on critical peace studies, migration, refugee issues, and gender in development.

Marcela Douglas Aranibar is an Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Centre for Geopolitics, Peace and Security, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. Her major publications include Exploring the Resettling Experiences of Refugee Families in Norway Through the Lens of Children and Their Parents, Parent training programs for immigrant families in Europe: A systematic review and meta-analysis, and The Resettling Experiences of Refugee Families in Norway, addressing refugee integration, family well-being, and peace and conflict studies.

Ana Luisa Sanchez Laws is Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Centre for Geopolitics, Peace and Security / Centre for Sami Studies / Centre for Women and Gender Research), Norway. Her principal publications include the books Panamanian Museums and Historical Memory, Museum Websites and Social Media, Conceptualizing Immersive Journalism, and the widely cited article Can immersive journalism enhance empathy?.