Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367740917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 234 str.

Radmila Svaříčková Slabáková

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Family Memory as a Prospective Field of Memory Studies: Past, Present, Future  PART I: Private and Public Practices of Building Family Memory  2. Family Voices and the Practice of Memory: Five Generations of Women in Rome  3. The Buarque de Holanda: Family Memory and Political Engagement in the Public Space in Brazil  4. The Ntsimane Family Traditions and Rituals in Pre- and Post-1994 South Africa  PART II: Intergenerational Transmission of Social and Political Values  5. Czech Family Stories of Communism: Family Memories at the Intersection of Family Values, Family Relations and National Memory  6. Family Memories for Communism in Bulgaria: Destiny and Resource  7. Family Memories of Second-Generation Republican Women Exiled to Mexico  PART III: Family Memory of Violent Events and Genocide  8. "Facts, not Emotions": Changing Generational Needs and New Meanings of the Memory of the Armenian Genocide  9. Family Memories and the Development of the Genocide Ideology in Rwanda  10. Exile and Soviet Memoirs: Family Mansions in Aristocratic Family Memories after the Russian Revolution  PART IV: Family Memory, Family Identity and Digital Media  11. Family Memories, Family Histories and the Identities of Settler Family Descendants in New Zealand  12. What do Family Memories Mean?: Navigating the Unfinished Archives after the Partition of India  13. "Got my Finn Tattoo!": Sharing Family Memories on Facebook

O autorze

Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková is an Associate Professor of History at Palacký University Olomouc. She is the author of numerous publications on memory, oral history, gender and modern historiography.