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Memory Studies in the Nordic Countries: A Handbook
Series: - Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies, Volume: 1
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Universities offering programs in Memory Studies, Area studies (especially Scandinavian/Finnish Studies, European Studies), Cultural Studies, Literature Studies, Film and Theater Studies, Folklore Studies, Ethnology, Gender Studies, Indigenous Studies, History, Postcolonial Studies.