 | Collective Memories in War Subjects: Area Studies; Behavioral Sciences; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Psychological Science; History; Military & Strategic Studies; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; European History; Social & Cultural History; War & Conflict Studies; Historical Sociology; Social Theory; Sociology of Culture; Cognitive Psychology; Military Studies; This edited collection offers an empirical exploration of social memory in the context of politics, war, identity and culture. With a substantive focus on Eastern Europe, it employs the methodologies of visual studies, content and discourse analysis, in-depth interviews and surveys to substantiate how memory narratives are composed and rewritten in changing ideological and political contexts. The book examines various historical events, including the Russian-Afghan war of 1979-89 and World War II, and considers public and local rituals, monuments and museums, textbook accounts, gender and the body. As such it provides a rich picture of post-socialist memory construction and function based in interdisciplinary memory studies. Elena Rozhdestvenskaya works as Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation. Victoria Semenova is Professor and Head of the Department of Qualitative Research at the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation. Irina Tartakovskaya works as Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation. Krzysztof Kosela is Dean of the Department, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland. |
