The Mobility of Memory: Migrations and Diasporas across European Borders

✍ Scribed by Luisa Passerini (editor); Milica Trakilović (editor); Gabriele Proglio (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Series: Worlds of Memory; 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Migration is most concretely defined by the movement of human bodies, but it leaves indelible traces on everything from individual psychology to major social movements. Drawing on extensive field research, and with a special focus on Italy and the Netherlands, this interdisciplinary volume explores the interrelationship of migration and memory at scales both large and small, ranging across topics that include oral and visual forms of memory, archives, and artistic innovations. By engaging with the complex tensions between roots and routes, minds and bodies, The Mobility of Memory offers an incisive and empirically grounded perspective on a social phenomenon that continues to reshape both Europe and the world.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Preamble THE MOBILITY OF MEMORY IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY
Introduction EUROPE AND BEYOND
Part I. Mobility Framed by Language: Constraints and Possibilities
Chapter 1. Between “Fleeing” and “Taking Flight”: Negotiating the Refugee Label
Chapter 2. “Languages of Mobility/Mobility of Languages”: Between Words and Imagery
Part II. Subjectivities in Educational Settings
Chapter 3. Represented Bodies, Broken Bodies: Visions of Transnational Subjectivities and Memories among Italian Students
Chapter 4. Transcultural Itineraries and New Literacies: How Memories Could Reshape School Systems
Part III DIASPORIC MEMORIES AND ARCHIVAL TRAJECTORIES
Chapter 5 CONCEPTUALIZING DIASPORIC MEMORY Temporalities and the Geography of Emotions in Eritreans’ Oral Tales
Chapter 6 EVA NERA RELOADED An Archive in the Making
Part IV VISUALIZING MEMORY AND RESISTANCE
Chapter 7 COUNTER-IMAGES OF MIGRATION (Visual) Memories of Refugee Migration Th at Resist an Anti-Immigrant Discourse
Chapter 8 VISUALIZING VIOLENCE Political Imaginations from the Syrian Diaspora in the Netherlands
Epilogue BODIES CROSSING BORDERS
INDEX