Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe: Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence (2024)

By: Katharina Karcher and Yordanka Dimcheva and Mireya Toribio Medina and Mia Parkes

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031537899
Related ISBNs:: 9783031537882
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 09/13/24
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Katharina Karcher
Edited by:: Yordanka Dimcheva
Edited by:: Mireya Toribio Medina
Edited by:: Mia Parkes