Terrifying Europe
history and Memory of Terrorism in European Identity
- ISBN: 9788413818177
- Editorial: Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Madrid. España
- Colección: Estudios Europeos
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 254
- Idiomas: Inglés
As different historians have outlined, memories and identities stemming from the dreadful events unfolded in Europe during the 20th century are deeply connected with the ways in which traumatic and violent pasts are remembered, commemorated and mourned as the years go by. Collective and national identities during the second half of the last century haven been constructed upon the remembrance and depiction of victims within public sphere. As a result, the ways in which contemporary violence is framed through the different ‘mediations and re-meditations’ provided by cultural memory are key to understand the reconfiguration of contemporary European identities. Undoubtedly, the experience of terrorism in European soil is one of comes to the fore when dealing the remembrance of violence. Regardless of the political nature and grounding of the different terrorist attacks which have shocked and undermined the feeling of security within Western societies, the evolution of European identities is dependent on how such events are depicted and on how their victims are remembered and commemorated. Echoing this situation, Remembering Terror aims at offering a diverse set of perspectives focusing on different historical cases of remembering and commemorating terrorism in contemporary Europe. Therefore, each chapter included in this book is thus intended to provide a different approach to how a specific event in Europe related to terrorism has been reframed. In this regard, far from endorsing a particular perspective, Remembering Terror is bound to offer a glimpse on the heterogeneous ways in which memory of terrorism has reshaped collective identities in Europe.
PART I. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
HISTORY, MEMORY AND TRAUMA AT THE CORE OF EUROPEAN IDENTITIES: BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION, Rafael Pérez Baquero and Salvador Cayuela Sánchez
TERRORISM CRIMES AND VICTIMIZATION: FROM TRAUMA TO RESILIENCE, Marta María Aguilar Cárceles and Agustina María Vinagre González
PART II. HISTORY OF TERRORISM IN EUROPE
ANARCHIST VIOLENCE AND STATE REPRESSION AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY (XIX-XX), Ángel Herrerín López
CRIMINAL LAWS, STATE OF EMERGENCY AND CULTURE OF SECURITY: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF (COUNTER)TERRORISM IN FRANCE, Eduardo Cano Muñoz
IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS. A SOCIO-CULTURAL REVIEW OF THE IRISH CONFLICT, Gabriel López Martínez
PART III. MEMORY OF TERRORISM IN EUROPE
RECOGNITION, IDENTITY, JUSTICE AND FORGIVENESS IN THE MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF ETA TERRORISM, María García Pérez
“WE WERE ALL ON THAT TRAIN”. REFLECTIONS ON THE IMPROVISED MEMORIALS DEDICATED TO THE VICTIMS OF THE JIHADIST ATTACKS IN SPAIN, Carmen Ortiz García
FILMS AS THEATRES OF MEMORY: THE SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF TERRORISM IN 1970S WEST GERMANY, Laura Bowie
DIGITISING COMMEMORATION: THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE TERRORIST ATTACK IN PIAZZA FONTANA, MILAN (DECEMBER 12, 1969), Lia Luchetti and Anna Lisa Tota
WHOSE MEMORY? COLLECTIVE REMEMBERING AFTER THE 2011 TWIN TERROR ATTACKS IN NORWAY, Ingeborg Hjorth