Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe : Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence

This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban terrorism in contemporary Europe, this book shows that current debates on this issue are shaped by multiple co-existing and intersecting memories of political violence in the past. Moreover, despite public declarations of unity and solidarity, collective memories of urban terror in contemporary Europe are far from consensual - memory can be both a catalyst for and an impediment to social and political change. The analyses in this book reveal that memory can be both at the same time. Drawing on case studies from a range of European countries and art representations from survivors, artists, and poets, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to key methods (e.g. discourse analysis and (auto-)ethnography) and concepts (e.g. Lieux de Mémoire and ?grassroots memorials?) for the study of the memoralization of terror attacks.

Author: Katharina Karcher, Yordanka Dimcheva, Mireya Toribio Medina, Mia Parkes

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: Sep 14, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 3031537882

ISBN-13: 9783031537882