Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Shows current debates on this issue are shaped by multiple co-existing and intersecting memories
- Introduces readers to key methods and concepts for the study of the memoralization of terror attacks
- Sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining, and anticipating in relation to acts of urban terrorism
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About this book
This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban terrorism in contemporary Europe, this book shows that current debates on this issue are shaped by multiple co-existing and intersecting memories of political violence in the past. Moreover, despite public declarations of unity and solidarity, collective memories of urban terror in contemporary Europe are far from consensual - memory can be both a catalyst for and an impediment to social and political change. Drawing on case studies from a range of European countries and creative responses by survivors, artists, and poets, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to key methods (e.g. discourse analysis and (auto-)ethnography) and concepts (e.g. Lieux de Mémoire and ‘grassroots memorials’) for the study of the memoralization of terror attacks.
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Time
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Front Matter
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Silences
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Front Matter
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Presence and Absence
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Katharina Karcher is Associate Professor in German at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on protest movements and political violence in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is particularly interested in questions of gender, race, class, dis/ability, and political ideology.
Yordanka Dimcheva is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on the experiences of terrorist violence in France since 2015 and the complex way trauma, grief, and affect shape how the attacks are remembered.
Mireya Toribio Medina is a lawyer specialising in criminal law and a doctoral researcher at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. Her research project analyses the construction of the narratives surrounding terrorist violence in Spain’s contemporary legal system.
Mia Parkes is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focusses on women’s political imprisonment in the 20th and 21st centuries, including immigration detention, and is centred largely upon testimony, memory, and the prison texts of incarcerated women.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe
Book Subtitle: Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence
Editors: Katharina Karcher, Yordanka Dimcheva, Mireya Toribio Medina, Mia Parkes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53789-9
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) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53788-2Published: 14 September 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53791-2Due: 28 September 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53789-9Published: 13 September 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 324
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Memory Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Cultural Heritage, European Culture