Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

Jenny Wüstenberg is Professor of History & Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is the founder and past Co-President of the Memory Studies Association (2016-2023), as well as Chair of the COST Action on “Slow Memory: Transformative Practices in Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change” (2021-2025). She is the author of Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the co-editor, most recently, of Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (with Aline Sierp, Berghahn 2020) and the Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (with Yifat Gutman, 2023).

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PART I: FOUNDATIONS



Introduction: Agency and Practice in the Making of Transnational Memory Spaces

Jenny Wüstenberg



Chapter 1. A Field-Theoretical Approach to Collective Memory

Zoltan Dujisin



PART II: BOTTOM-UP AGENCY



Chapter 2. Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case

Silvana Mandolessi

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Chapter 3. Online Transnational Memory Activism and Commemoration: The Case of the White Armband Day

Orli Fridman & Katarina Ristić



Chapter 4. Memory Activism across Borders: The Transformative Influence of the Argentinean-Franco Court Case and Activist Protest Movements on Spain’s Recovery of Historical Memory

Andrea Hepworth



Chapter 5. The Creation and Utilization of Opportunity Structures for Transnational Activism on WWII Sexual Slavery in Asia

Mary McCarthy



Chapter 6. The Political Agency of Victims through Transnational Process of Forensic Anthropology and Memory Construction in Latin America

Devin Finn



Chapter 7. Transnational Place-Making After Political Violence: Agencies and Practices of Site Memorialization in the Latin American Southern Cone

Gruia Bădescu



PART III: TOP-DOWN AGENCY



Chapter 8. My Pain, Our Grievance: Universal Human Rights and Memory Standardization in Liberia's Truth Commission

Noga Glucksam



Chapter 9. Transitional Justice in Public: Communicating Transnational Memories of Mass Violence

Courtney E Cole



Chapter 10. Transnational Memory Movements in the 9/11 Museum

Amy Sodaro



PART IV: HORIZONTAL AGENCY



Chapter 11. Links to the Past, Bridges for the Present? Recognition among Memory Organizations in a European Network

Till Hilmar



Chapter 12. "Life Was a Precarious Dance": Graphic Narration and the Construction of a Transcultural Memory Space in the PositiveNegatives Project

Dragos Manea and Mihaela Precup



Chapter 13. A Transnational Nation: Roma National Identity in the Making

Balázs Majtényi and György Majtenyi



Chapter 14. Border-Crossing Cultural Initiatives of Memory and Reconciliation across the Colombian-Panama Border

Ricardo A. Velasco Trujillo



PART V: OUTLOOK



Conclusions: Agency in Transnational Memory Politics—Guidelines for Inquiry

Aline Sierp



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