Overview
- Applies a fresh interdisciplinary approach (historical and political) to cultural memory
- Spans a broad geographical focus, covering narratives and practices in Central Asia, North Africa, Turkey and the South East Europe countries with high Muslim concentrations
- Fills a gap in the field by focusing on regions that have been understudied in memory studies
Part of the book series: Islam and Nationalism (INAT)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world. It discusses how memory cultures are established and used at national levels – in official history writing, through the erection of monuments, the fashioning of educational curricula and through media strategies – as well as in the interface with both artistic expressions and popular culture in the Muslim world at large. The representations of collective memory have been one of the foremost tools in national identity politics, grass-root mobilization, theological debates over Islam and general discussions on what constitutes ‘the modern in the Middle East’ as well as in Muslim diaspora environments. Few, if any, contemporary conflicts in the region can be understood in depth without a certain focus on various uses of history, memory cultures and religious meta-narratives at all societal levels, and in art and literature. This book will be of use to students and scholars in the fields of Identity Politics, Islamic Studies, Media and Cultural Anthropology.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Catharina Raudvere is Professor in the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research interests focus on contemporary Islam, Muslim ritual life, and everyday religion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past
Book Subtitle: History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World
Editors: Catharina Raudvere
Series Title: Islam and Nationalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39001-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39000-0Published: 28 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81789-7Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39001-7Published: 19 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-7581
Series E-ISSN: 2947-759X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 197
Topics: Political History, Middle Eastern Politics, Political Communication, Sociology of Religion