Memory and Securitization in Contemporary Europe

Vlad Strukov is an Associate Professor in Film and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds, UK. He specialises in world cinemas, digital media and cultural theory. He is the author of ‘Contemporary Russian Cinema: Symbols of a New Era’ (2016) and other books on visual culture. He is the founder of Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media.Victor Apryshchenko is a Professor of History at the Southern Federal University, Rostov-na-Donu, Russia. His research focuses on construction and transformation of European identities and historical memory management in Europe. He is the author of monographs and articles on historical and social memory and European intellectual culture. He is the editor-in-chief of The New Past/Novoe Proshloe journal.

• Chapter 1: Games of Memory, or Games with Memories: Imperial Past in the three Referenda (Victor Apryshchenko).- Chapter 2: Security, Memory and the Debate on Scottish Independence (Ewen Cameron, University of Edinburgh).- Chapter 3: Traumatic Memory: The De-securitization of Belfast (Paul Antick, University of Roehampton).- Chapter 4: Recurring Memories, Societies of Risk and Maps of Culture: Europe on Global Screen (Vlad Strukov).- Chapter 5: Media Genre, Disrupted Memory and the Securitisation Chronotope: The Case of the Lee Rigby Murder (Stephen Hutchings & Kenzie Burchell, University of Manchester).- Chapter 6: New Media, World-War-II Memory, and Securitisation in the Ukrainian Crisis (Mykola Makhortykh, University of Amsterdam).- Chapter 7: Security Risks and Coping Strategies of Western Businesses in Neo-patrimonial States: Evidence from Ukraine under Janukovytch (Hannes Meissner, City of Vienna Competence Team Black Sea Region/).- Chapter 8: Liquid Uncertainties in Europe: Economic Securitization and Beyond (Oliver Hinkelbein,University of Bremen).- Chapter 9: The Economy of Memory and Risks: Discourse Analysis of the European and Eurasian Economic Unions (the Case of Armenia) (Oxana Karnaukhova, Southern Federal University).- Chapter 10: Ecologies of Memory: Securitising Transnational Climate Change Risks through Memory Discoursein Russian and British Media (Marianna Poberezhskaya, University of East Anglia).

“It provides a useful framework for understanding some of the security mechanisms for those students who are interested in broadening their understanding on the subject.” (Priya Sara Mathews, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, Issue 6, July, 2020)