The Covid-19 Pandemic and Memory: Remembrance, Commemoration, and Archiving in Crisis

ISBN-13: 9783031345968 / Angielski

Orli Fridman; Sarah Gensburger

Spis treści

Introduction. Unlocking memory studies: Understanding jointly remembrance during and of Covid.- Part I. Can we speak of a covid memory boom?.- Chapter 1. “It seemed right to keep some sort of history”: Performances of digital memory work by young women during Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter.- Chapter 2. Memorializing an ongoing crisis: Picturing Lockdown as a case study.- Chapter 3. #Mémoriascovid19: Reimagining and narrating trauma in the core of Covid-19 pandemic.- Chpater 4. The Danger of a Single Story: Epic-Pandemic Narratologies and Memorials of COVID-19 in Nigeria.- Chapter 5. Pandemic from the Margins: How U.S.-based College Students Think the Pandemic Should be Remembered.- Part 2. Commemorative events between memory politics and protests: what has changed during the lockdowns?.- Chapter 6. “No quarantine for workers’ rights”: Recontextualizing Labour Day commemoration in the Semiotic Landscape of a pandemic demonstration.- Chapter 7. The Struggle to Remember Tiananmen under COVID-19 and the National Security Law in Hong Kon.- Chapter 8. “Memory Does Not Quarantine”: COVID-19, Remembering the Coup, and the Struggle for Democracy in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.- Chapter 9. Human Rights Day: Grassroots Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions.- Part 3. Memorial Museums and national days: did digital practices transform commemoration in times of the pandemic?.- Chapter 10. “Le goût d’un jour de fête”? Commemorating the end of the Second World War on Twitter during the lockdown: a comparison between France and Italy.- Chapter 11. #Hashtag Commemoration: Public Engagement with Commemoration Events during Covid-19 Lockdowns.- Chapter 12. #DigitalMemorial(s): How Covid-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory.- Chapter 13. Holocaust Remembrance on Facebook during the Lockdown: A Turning Point or a Token Gesture?.- Chapter 14. Epilogue. Did the Pandemic change the future of memory?

O autorze

Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) and the academic director of the SIT learning center in Serbia. She is the author of Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories (2022).  

Sarah Gensburger is a professor at CNRS-Sciences Po Paris. Her most recent books are Beyond Memory. Can we really learn from the past? (Palgrave, 2020, with S. Lefranc) and Memory on my doorstep. Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood (2019).   

Blurb

"This jewel of a book sets a new persuasive agenda for memory studies by an international group of scholars. Exploring individual and collective mnemonic practices that took lace during Covid-19 and of Covid-19, this book offers indispensable contributions to timely questions: Has the pandemic transformed mnemonic practices? Will Covid-19 become part of collective memory?"

—Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"How the Covid-19 pandemic unlocked memory. A truly international cast of authors throw light on archiving, mobilization, and the digitalization of memory – from Athens to Brazil, from Nigeria to Hong Kong. Essential reading for everyone interested in Corona and collective memory."

—Astrid Erll, Goethe University Frankfurt 

"This innovative volume documents a profound transformation in digital memory practices triggered by the covid-19 pandemic. Empirically rich contributions interrogate mnemonic activism as a response to trauma, a form of protest and an homage to legacies of violence. It is an essential reference for the study of memory."

—Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics and Political Scientists 

This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view the book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and commemoration. It aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory tracing both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic.

Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) and the academic director of the SIT learning center in Serbia. She is the author of Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories (2022).  

Sarah Gensburger is a professor at CNRS-Sciences Po Paris. Her most recent books are Beyond Memory. Can we really learn from the past? (Palgrave, 2020, with S. Lefranc) and Memory on my doorstep. Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood (2019).