Defending Memory in Global Politics

Erica Resende is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Security Studies at the Brazilian War College, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Dovilė Budrytė is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA, and a member of EUROPAST project at Vilnius University, Lithuania.Douglas Becker is Associate Teaching Professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, and in Environmental Studies at University of Southern California Dornsife, USA.

• Introduction: The Securitization of Memory in the Context of Crisis Part 1: States Defending Memory 1. Securitizing the Past in Colombia? The Mnemonical Disputes over the Taking of the Palace of Justice in 1985 2. The Controversies of Memory Politics in Authoritarian Chechnya 3. The Securitization of Memory and the Practice of Public History in the Baltic States 4. Memory Contestation and Violence: The Battle over the US Civil War Narrative and Variations of Mnemonic In/Security 5. Framing, Naming, and Claiming Cultural Heritage in Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh: Mass Media and Cultural Heritage as Mnemonic Battlegrounds Part 2: Non-State Actors Defending Memory 6. When Memory Is Not Defended: Precarity and Political Imprisonment in Myanmar 7. Contesting Memories in and of Bhutan: Diaspora Radio as a Mnemonic Challenge 8. Speaking for the Dead in Brazil: Mothers as Memory Activists for Justice and Change 9. Trauma Visualization: The Role of Transnational Actors in the Mnemonic Preservation and Promotion of Holodomor Narratives in Canada 10. Russian Securitization of Memory and Multiple Anxieties: Defending Memory through the Diasporic Film Haytarma 11. Gender, War and Remembrance: ‘Heroic Subjects’ in Lithuania’s Memory Regime of Fighting and Suffering 12. Conclusion: Defending Memory at the Frontiers of War in Europe