Interpreting Contentious Memory

Thomas DeGloma is Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.Janet Jacobs is Professor of Distinction in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

• 1. Introduction: Interpreting Contentious Memories and Conflicts over the Past - Thomas DeGloma and Janet JacobsPart 1: Interpreting Memories in the Social Dynamics of Contention2 On the Social Distribution of Soldiers’ Memories: Normalization, Trauma, and Morality - Edna Lomsky-Feder3. Feminist Approaches to Studying Memory and Mass Atrocity - Nicole Fox4. Mobilizing Memories: Remembrance as a Social Movement Tool in the Vieques Anti-Military Movement (1999–2004) - Roberto Vélez-Vélez5. The Ballot of Donald and Hillary: Hateful Memories of Celebrity Leaders - Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, and Cal AbboPart 2: Racism, Exclusion, and Mnemonic Conflict6. Building a Case for Citizenship: Countermemory Work among Deported Veterans - Sofya Aptekar7. Commemorations as Transformative Events: Collective Memory, Temporality, and Social Change - Claire Whitlinger8. Contentious Pasts, Contentious Futures: Race, Memory, and Politics in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum - Amy SodaroPart 3: Genocide, Memory, and the Historicizing of Trauma9. Remembrance and Historicization: Transformation of Individual and Collective Memory Processes in the Federal Republic of Germany - Werner Bohleber10. Enlisting Lived Memory: From Traumatic Silence to Authentic Witnessing - Carol A. Kidron11. Changing Memories of the Shoah in Post-Communist Countries: New Memories and Conflicts - Selma Leydesdorff12. How Difficult Pasts Complicate the Present: Comparative Analysis of the Genocides in Western Armenia and Rwanda - Jacob Caponi and Fatma Müge Göçek13. Conclusion: Memory and the Social Dynamics of Conflict and Contention: Interpretive Lenses for New Cases and Controversies - Janet Jacobs and Thomas DeGloma

“This book represents the state of the art in sociological memory studies. It will help sociologists understand why memory is so important, just as it will help non-sociological memory scholars understand what sociology has to offer the field.” Jeffrey Olick, University of Virginia