Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics.


This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation, and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.


Featuring an international group of scholars, this book makes important contributions to social memory studies, but also shows how studying memory is vital to our understanding of enduring social problems that span the globe.

Contributions by: Edna Lomsky-Feder, Nicole Fox, Roberto Vélez-Vélez, Gary Fine, Christopher Robertson, Cal Abbo, Sofya Aptekar, Claire Whitlinger, Amy Sodaro, Werner Bohleber, Carol Kidron, Selma Leydesdorff, Jacob Caponi, Fatma Müge Göçek