Memory Studies in the Nordic Countries: A Handbook

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-53275-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies

This peer-reviewed international handbook focuses on memory studies in the Nordic countries. It is a multi-disciplinary and transnational work that explores and maps characteristics and applications of the fast-growing field of memory studies in the Nordic region and in relation to the global context.

With contributions focusing on theoretical and disciplinary reflections, illustrative thematic overviews, as well as elaborations of concepts and approaches in the Nordic setting, the handbook serves as a multi-disciplinary reference guide for researchers and students interested in memory studies. Existing and emerging debates have been carefully mapped, as well as disciplinary trajectories of the field, thematic, pragmatic, aesthetic, and ideological features of Nordic memory cultures.

This comprehensive handbook of memory studies in the Nordic countries provides a stepping stone for future developments in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gudmundsdóttir, Gunnthórunn

Savolainen, Ulla

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on contributors

1 Memory in the Nordic Countries Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir and Ulla Savolainen PART 1

Agents and Agencies of Memory

2 Queer Memory Riikka Taavetti, Hafdís Erla Hafsteinsdóttir and Anu Koivunen

3 Indigenous Agency Silke Reeploeg

4 Colonialist Legacy and Public Commemoration: Denmark and the West Indies Marianne Stecher-Hansen

5 Memory Objects of Oceanic Colonialism Magdalena Zolkos PART 2

Politics of Memory and History

6 State Redress and Memory Politics Astrid Nonbo Andersen and Malin Arvidsson

7 Mnemohistory of Stalinist Repression in Finland Ulla Savolainen and Meeri Siukonen

8 Russian Speakers in Finland and the Memory of World War II Olga Davydova-Minguet

9 Iceland’s Foreign Policy Identities Valur Ingimundarson PART 3

Cultural Mediations of Memory

10 Pre-modern Times Pernille Hermann

11 Audiovisual Memory and Nordic Cinema Gunnar Iversen

12 Recent Norwegian World War II Film, Television, and Theater Productions Siemke Böhnisch, Anne Gjelsvik and Siri Hempel Lindøe

13 Traumatic Memory in Literature Riitta Jytilä PART 4

Personal, Embodied, and Spatial Memories

14 Multiperspectivity in Museums Ene Kõresaar, Kirsti Jõesalu, Olli Kleemola and Anne Heimo

15 Memory Work across Difference Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Sima Nurali Wolgast and Francesca Cerri

16 Embodied Memory Encounters Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto and Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro

17 Emplaced Memories in the Urban Landscape Ólafur Rastrick

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ulla Savolainen works as a University Lecturer of Folklore Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on minority memories, vernacular memory practices, the interplay and friction between institutional and grassroots actors, transnationality and migration, and memory and social justice.

Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland. Her research focusses on contemporary literature, life writing, memory studies, and the negotiations of memory and forgetting in culture.