Contested pasts : the politics of memory / edited by Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Contested pasts / Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone -- Transforming memory -- Introduction / Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone -- The massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine: history, myth, ritual and symbol / Alessandro Portelli -- Memories and histories, public and private: after the Finnish Civil War / Anne Heimo, Ulla-Maija Peltonen -- War, history, and the education of (Canadian) memory / Graham Carr -- 'We would never have come without you': generations of nostalgia / Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer -- Remembering suffering: trauma and history -- The traumatic paradox: autobiographical documentary and the psychology of memory / Janet Walker -- Memories of violence in interviews with Basque nationalist women / Carrie Hamilton -- Sale of the century? Memory and historical consciousness in Australia / Paula Hamilton -- 'Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid of me': trauma, history and the therapeutic imagination in the new South Africa / Christopher J. Colvin -- Patterning the national past -- Nationalism and memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Rachel Hughes -- The death of socialism and the afterlife of its monuments: making and marketing the past in Budapest's Statue Park Museum / Maya Nadkarni -- From contested to consensual memory: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum / Robert Burgoyne -- 'Dead Man': film, colonialism and memory / Chris Healy -- And then silence ... -- Memories between silence and oblivion / Luisa Passerini --

Introduction: Contested pasts / Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone -- Pt. I. Transforming memory -- Introduction / Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone -- 1. The massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine: history, myth, ritual and symbol / Alessandro Portelli -- 2. Memories and histories, public and private: after the Finnish Civil War / Anne Heimo and Ulla-Maija Peltonen -- 3. War, history, and the education of (Canadian) memory / Graham Carr -- 4. 'We would never have come without you': generations of nostalgia / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- Pt. II. Remembering suffering: trauma and history -- Introduction / Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone -- 5. The traumatic paradox: autobiographical documentary and the psychology of memory / Janet Walker -- 6. Memories of violence in interviews with Basque nationalist women / Carrie Hamilton -- 7. Sale of the century? Memory and historical consciousness in Australia / Paula Hamilton -- 8. 'Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid of me': trauma, history and the therapeutic imagination in the new South Africa / Christopher J. Colvin -- Pt. III. Patterning the national past -- Introduction / Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone -- 9. Nationalism and memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Rachel Hughes -- 10. The death of socialism and the afterlife of its monuments: making and marketing the past in Budapest's Statue Park Museum / Maya Nadkarni -- 11. From contested to consensual memory: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum / Robert Burgoyne -- 12. 'Dad Man': film, colonialism and memory / Chris Healy -- Pt. IV. And then silence ... -- Introduction / Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone -- 13. Memories between silence and oblivion / Luisa Passerini.

This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent.

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