Outsourcing the European Past : An Interscalar Study of Memory and Morality

Thomas van de Putte

ISBN 10: 3031541316 / ISBN 13: 9783031541315

Published by Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024

About this Item

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various non-governmental intermediary institutions (including the Memory Studies Association and Euroclio) and, in the end, participants in policy projects, attribute meaning to the past and connect that past with specific norms and values.The book queries how the European Commission turns more general cultural memories into concrete moral discourses in its memory policy; how these policies are institutionally operationalised; what draws these institutions to the European Commission's memory policy; and what happens when individual citizens are exposed to the outcomes of those policy projects.Theoretically, Outsourcing the European Past integrates theories from cultural sociology, political science, cultural studies and sociolinguistics in an innovative theory of memory.

Seller Inventory # 9783031541315

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Outsourcing the European Past : An Interscalar Study of Memory and Morality
• Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031541316
• ISBN 13: 9783031541315
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 14D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 338 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various non-governmental intermediary institutions (including the Memory Studies Association and Euroclio) and, in the end, participants in policy projects, attribute meaning to the past and connect that past with specific norms and values.

The book queries how the European Commission turns more general cultural memories into concrete moral discourses in its memory policy; how these policies are institutionally operationalised; what draws these institutions to the European Commission’s memory policy; and what happens when individual citizens are exposed to the outcomes of those policy projects.

Theoretically, Outsourcing the European Past  integrates theories from cultural sociology, political science, cultural studies and sociolinguistics in an innovative theory of memory.

About the Author

Thomas Van de Putte, PhD, is Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London. His first book, Contemporary Auschwitz/Oswiecim: a synchronic, interactional approach to collective memory was published in 2021. He works on questions of cultural and collective Holocaust memory, combining perspectives from sociology, linguistics and cultural studies.