Terrorism in Memory Culture: Investigating the Aftermath of July 22 in Norway

Alexandre Dessingué is Professor of Literacy Studies, History Education and History/Memory culture at the Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger, Norway. He is a memory scholar who has been working in different fields like in cultural history, cultural memory studies, comparative literature studies, critical literacy/thinking and history education. He is interested in the many ways in which history and more generally the past are represented and (mis)used in society. This includes the study of collective and cultural memory, the (des)construction of identities, the study of historical consciousness and critical thinking. He has published several books, chapters and articles in these related areas of research.Paula Hamilton is Professor of History at the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the State Library of NSW. She is a cultural historian who has published widely in oral history and memory studies, both in Australia and internationally, exploring the intersection between personal and public remembrance. She has supervised over 30 doctoral theses and is also a public historian, collaborating in a range of historical projects with libraries, community groups, museums, and heritage agencies.

• Chapter 1: Investigating memory culture after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway.- Part I: Remembering the Aftermath.- Chapter 2: Utøya and Norway’s July 22 Memorial Process: The Memory of Terror.- Chapter 3: Psychological and psychiatric aspects of the July 22, 2011, terrorist attacks.- Chapter 4: Collective trauma and archetypal meaning making.- Chapter 5: Time Broken and Time Repaired.- Chapter 6: From Tragedy to Trial: The Ripple Effect of Breivik's Legal Actions on Survivors and Bereaved Families.- Part II: The Spatialization of Memory.- Chapter 7: Together in grief? Space and conflict in the establishment of a national July 22 memorial in Hole Municipality.- Chapter 8: Mapping mnemonic traces from the 2011 terrorist attack on Oslo’s Government Quarter.- Chapter 9: Reclaiming the Path: Kjærlighetsstien and the Course of History.- Part III: Representations and Perceptions of July 22 in Arts.- Chapter 10: Theatrical approaches to July 22: the use (and non-use) of spaces and institutions.- Chapter 11: Remembering violence. The vulnerable ‘we’ in Endre Ruset’s poem ‘Prosjektil.- Chapter 12: July 22 in Literature and Arts: Åsne Seierstad, Britt Bildøen and Edvard Munch.- Chapter 13: Cinematic Representations of Crisis. Comparing Cinematic Treatments of the July 22 Terror Attacks.- Chapter 14: Memory in Transition: Norway’s Shifting Approach to Memorial Creation after the 2011 Terror Attacks.- Chapter 15: From the psychological to the ideological? Shifts in the memorialisation of Norway’s 22 terrorist attacks as refracted through popular literature.- Chapter 16: Linking contemporary and historical terror: July 22 in the context of WWII.- Chapter 17: Mythology of the authentic: Sacralization and depoliticization of July 22 in education.- Chapter 18: A promising approach to complexity? A case study investigating lower secondary students’ dialogues about July 22.- Chapter 19: Dynamics of remembrance and implication in the aftermath of  July 22.