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Mobile Histories, Activated Memories: Mnemonic Infrastructures & Contested Souths book cover

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Mobile Histories, Activated Memories Mnemonic Infrastructures & Contested Souths

Edited By Norman Saadi Nikro, David Leupold Copyright 2027
216 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book proposes two conceptual prisms to challenge predominating regimes of temporality: mobile histories and activated memories . Mobile histories evokes a sense of how history is forged, how history is narrated, dynamically reshaped through overlapping temporal layers and translocal intersections. By contrast, activated memories focuses on how people across the Global South... Read more

Introduction

Norman Saadi Nikro and David Leupold

 

1 Mobile Histories, Activated Memories: Chapter Outlines

Norman Saadi Nikro and David Leupold

 

Part One: Mobile Histories

 

2 The Social Life of Ta’atuf (Empathy): Storytelling and the Production of Mnemonic Infrastructures in Lebanon

Norman Saadi Nikro

 

3 Mobile Histories: Chempakaraman Pillai and the Construction of a Collective Role Model in Post-Colonial India

Heike Liebau

 

4 An ‘Immobile History’? Narrating the Cultural Memory of Bishkek’s Hip-Hop Community

Florian Coppenrath

 

5 Charan Narzary’s Dream for Udayachal: Contested Memorialization and the Political Memoir as an Artefact in the Bodoland Territorial Region in India

Jona Vantard 

 

Part Two: Activated Memories

 

6 Laughing Away the War? Dolma Diaries (2022) and the Multivocalization of Armenian-Azerbaijani Cultural Memory

David Leupold

 

7 Entangled Palestinian Memories Activated through Music: Sabreen and 47Soul

Farah Aboubakr

 

8 Photographs as Travelling Radio- and Memory-Objects From Cold War India

Anandita Bajpai

 

9 The Memomusor Art Project: The ‘Trashification’ of Historical Memory in Kyrgyzstan

Lilit Dabagian

 

10 Genealogies of Intergenerational Memory in Lebanon: Ghassan Halwani’s Erased,____Ascent of the Invisible

Norman Saadi Nikro 

Biography

Norman Saadi Nikro is an independent scholar and writer. His publications include Nafssiya: Edward Said’s Affective Phenomenology of Racism (Palgrave 2024), and Insidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures (co-editor, Routledge 2024).

David Leupold is a Berlin-based sociologist, scholar of memory wars, and research fellow in the ERC-funded research project REVENANT: Revivals of Empire. He is the author of Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Turkish, and Kurdish Memory (2020), winner of the CESS book award, and The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities. Urban Futures and their Afterlives (2026). David is the former principal investigator of the DFG-funded research project Future Images of the Past (2021–2025), which he conducted at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.

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