How the media has been complicit in sustaining free market capitalism. From Donald Trump to Brexit and the resurgence of the far-right across Europe, what role has the media played in shaping our current political moment? Following the news coverage of a decade-long crisis that includes the 2008 financial crash and the Great Recession, mounting…

The ruthless military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country’s people, presiding over massive disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process,  destroying the state’s trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked their lives to find the disappeared, and one group of mothers defied the repressive regime with weekly protests…

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…