Contents

pp v-vi

Series Editors’ Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology – On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life

pp vii-xi

Notes on Contributors

pp xii-xvi

Acknowledgments

pp xvii-xviii

1 - Introduction: Interpreting Contentious Memories and Conflicts over the Past

pp 1-26

PART I - Interpreting Memories in the Social Dynamics of Contention

pp 27-28

2 - On the Social Distribution of Soldiers’ Memories: Normalization, Trauma, and Morality

pp 29-48

3 - Feminist Approaches to Studying Memory and Mass Atrocity

pp 49-68

4 - Mobilizing Memories: Remembrance as a Social Movement Tool in the Vieques Anti-Military Movement (1999–2004)

pp 69-88

5 - The Ballot of Donald and Hillary: Hateful Memories of Celebrity Leaders

pp 89-110

PART II - Racism, Exclusion, and Mnemonic Conflict

pp 111-112

6 - Building a Case for Citizenship: Countermemory Work among Deported Veterans

pp 113-133

7 - Commemorations as Transformative Events: Collective Memory, Temporality, and Social Change

pp 134-153

8 - Contentious Pasts, Contentious Futures: Race, Memory, and Politics in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum

pp 154-174

PART III - Genocide, Memory, and the Historicizing of Trauma

pp 175-176

9 - Remembrance and Historicization: Transformation of Individual and Collective Memory Processes in the Federal Republic of Germany

pp 177-196

10 - Enlisting Lived Memory: From Traumatic Silence to Authentic Witnessing

pp 197-216

11 - Changing Memories of the Shoah in Post-Communist Countries: New Memories and Conflicts

pp 217-235

12 - How Difficult Pasts Complicate the Present: Comparative Analysis of the Genocides in Western Armenia and Rwanda

pp 236-257

13 - Conclusion: Memory and the Social Dynamics of Conflict and Contention: Interpretive Lenses for New Cases and Controversies

pp 258-265

Index

pp 266-274