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

Karcher, Katharina; Dimcheva, Yordanka; Toribio Medina, Mireya; Parkes, Mia

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. Drawing on case studies from a range of European countries and creative responses by 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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-09-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031537882

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-53789-9

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 324.0