Interpreting Contentious Memory

Thomas DeGloma is Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Janet Jacobs is Professor of Distinction in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

1. Introduction: Interpreting Contentious Memories and Conflicts over the Past - Thomas DeGloma and Janet Jacobs


Part 1: Interpreting Memories in the Social Dynamics of Contention


2 On the Social Distribution of Soldiers’ Memories: Normalization, Trauma, and Morality - Edna Lomsky-Feder


3. Feminist Approaches to Studying Memory and Mass Atrocity - Nicole Fox


4. Mobilizing Memories: Remembrance as a Social Movement Tool in the Vieques Anti-Military Movement (1999–2004) - Roberto Vélez-Vélez


5. The Ballot of Donald and Hillary: Hateful Memories of Celebrity Leaders - Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, and Cal Abbo


Part 2: Racism, Exclusion, and Mnemonic Conflict


6. Building a Case for Citizenship: Countermemory Work among Deported Veterans - Sofya Aptekar


7. Commemorations as Transformative Events: Collective Memory, Temporality, and Social Change - Claire Whitlinger


8. Contentious Pasts, Contentious Futures: Race, Memory, and Politics in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum - Amy Sodaro


Part 3: Genocide, Memory, and the Historicizing of Trauma


9. Remembrance and Historicization: Transformation of Individual and Collective Memory Processes in the Federal Republic of Germany - Werner Bohleber


10. Enlisting Lived Memory: From Traumatic Silence to Authentic Witnessing - Carol A. Kidron


11. Changing Memories of the Shoah in Post-Communist Countries: New Memories and Conflicts - Selma Leydesdorff


12. How Difficult Pasts Complicate the Present: Comparative Analysis of the Genocides in Western Armenia and Rwanda - Jacob Caponi and Fatma Müge Göçek


13. Conclusion: Memory and the Social Dynamics of Conflict and Contention: Interpretive Lenses for New Cases and Controversies - Janet Jacobs and Thomas DeGloma