Overview
- First book to offer a global approach to the impact of the pandemics on the way contemporary societies remember
- This book answers two questions: did the pandemics change commemoration? how will the Covid crisis be remembered?
- Critically analyzes memory during covid & memory of covid with novice and empirical work in memory studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Can We Speak of a Covid Memory Boom?
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Commemorative Events Between Memory Politics and Protests: What Has Changed During the Lockdowns?
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Memorial Museums and National Days: Did Digital Practices Transform Commemoration in Times of the Pandemic?
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About this book
The book aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory to understand both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic: what happened then to commemorative practices and rituals around the world? How has the Covid-19 pandemic been archived and remembered? What will remembering it actually entail, and what will it mean in the future? Where did the Covid memory boom come from? Who was behind it, how did it emerge, and in what socialconfigurations did it evolve?
Reviews
—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 Science
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory
Book Subtitle: Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis
Editors: Orli Fridman, Sarah Gensburger
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34597-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34596-8Published: 15 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34599-9Due: 19 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34597-5Published: 14 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 332
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations
Topics: Memory Studies, Digital/New Media