Regions of Memory

“Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a variety of global memory regions in parallel. Moreover, it reveals lesser-known vectors and mechanisms of memory travel, such as across Cold War battle lines, across the Indian Ocean, or between Southeast Asia and western Europe. Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Simon Lewis is Associate Professor in East and Central European Cultural History at the University of Bremen, Germany. Jeffrey K. Olick is William R.Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia, USA. He is Co-President of the Memory Studies Association. Joanna Wawrzyniak is a historian and sociologist, Associate Professor and director of the Center for Research on Social Memory at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Malgorzata Pakier is Head of the Academic Section at European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.