Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis (Interventions)

ISBN 10: 1032378220 / ISBN 13: 9781032378220

Published by Routledge, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis (Interventions)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032378220
• ISBN 13: 9781032378220
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book explores the securitization of memory in times of crisis using overlooked cases from the Global South and the Global North.

Instead of focusing exclusively on national identities and state actors, it explores various identities, including substate and transnational actors, and their role in “defending memory” during times of crisis. Embracing a broad definition of conflict that includes mnemonic, societal and armed conflicts, the expert contributors engage with political trauma, demonstrating its power to evoke commemorations and other shared practices of collective remembrance, shaping and perpetuating collective memory, the construction of national and transnational identities, national interests and foreign policy behaviors.

The book contributes to the fields of memory and trauma studies and ontological security in international relations. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of political science, sociology, international relations, history, nationalism and identity, international studies, cultural geography, social psychology, cultural studies and anthropology.

About the Author

Erica Resende is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Security Studies at the Brazilian War College, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dovilė Budrytė is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA, and a member of EUROPAST project at Vilnius University, Lithuania.

Douglas Becker is Associate Teaching Professor in the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, and in Environmental Studies at University of Southern California Dornsife, USA.