Books in the Memory and Narrative series

In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents explore the significance of family memory as an analytical tool and a research concept.

In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents explore the significance of family memory as an analytical tool and a research concept.

An ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political and drug-related violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence.

A study based on 150 life story narratives across three generations of 45 families who originated in the former British West Indies. It offers a perspective on African-Caribbean families, their history, and the problems they face. It traces the evolution of Caribbean life; and makes comparisons with Indo-Caribbean families.

Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. Multidisciplinary and using a range of examples, it is the ideal book for those interested in 20th-century military history and memory and history.

Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union

Demonstrates from a range of perspectives, the cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. The chapters in this volume offer a complex awareness of the workings of memory, and the ways in which different or changing histories may be explained and explores the relation between individual and social memory.

Focusing on the experience of Ethiopian Jews who left their homes in Ethiopia and embarked on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel, this book covers the journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society. It examines the relations between coping and meaning, trauma and culture.

Expanding upon longstanding concerns in cultural history about the relation of text and image, this book explores how ideas move across and between expressive forms. The volume explores how media intertextuality creates overlapping repertoires for understanding the past and the present.

This volume spans the whole complex global web of migratory patterns, without losing the particularities of local and personal experience. It explores these issues and the sustaining or abandoning of memory and identity as people move between fundamentally different cultures.

Memories continue to shape the present, in almost all families throughout the world. A life-story approach to family memories can provide a new key to research on the dynamics of the family and on social change.

In recent years memory has attracted increasing attention

Analyzing how Russian society operated on a day-to-day level, this book contrasts the integration of different social groups: the descendents of the pre-revolutionary upper classes, the industrial working class, or the ethnically marginalized Russian Jews. It examines in turn the implications of relationships, and the suppression of religion.

"Gender and Memory" brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines, to create a volume that confronts all those concerned with autobiographical testimony and narrative, both spoken and written.