In recent years, a number of publications devoted to the ‘future of memory’ have charted the potentials and limitations of the field of memory studies as it enters the Twenty-First Century. The field has seen a trajectory from ‘sites’ to ‘dynamics’ of memory, from national to transnational and ‘multidirectional’, from collective to cultural to transcultural…

This special issue was one of the outcomes of the EU-COST project In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe (2012-2016). Through a series of case studies it demonstrates how film and television are helping to create a transnational memory culture in Europe; it also shows the limits of these processes by revealing new strategies of re-nationalisation. It…

Edited by Chiara De Cesari and Ann Rigney How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production of memory…

Edited by Francisco Ferrándiz and Antonius C. G. M. Robben Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights examines thepolitical and social implications of this sensitive undertaking in specific local and national contexts. International forensic methods, local-level claims, national political developments, and transnational human rights discourse converge in detailed case studies from the United…

Edited by Joep Leerssen and Ann Rigney The many statues to writers dotted around the cities of Europe are the leftovers of a wave of commemorations which passed across the continent in the nineteenth century. Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe is the first volume to study this phenomenon in depth, offering both detailed accounts of the cults of…