Pathways to Agonism: Disputed Territories and Memory (Mobilizing Memories, 6)

This book focuses on managing competing memories of disputed territories in Eastern and Central Europe, the Caucasus and South Asia. Through an empirical, practice-oriented approach it explores memory work undertaken by institutions and social actors in different cultural and national settings. The book identifies examples of agonistic engagement with the memory of disputed territories that have the potential to build trust-based relationships between divided communities and overcome antagonistic separation through mutually beneficial joint enterprises. The volume also highlights blind spots and shortcomings of the agonistic approach by focusing on socio-political conditions that might hinder or prevent the broader dissemination of this memory mode.

Christina Horvath, Ph.D. (2003), is a Reader of French Politics at the University of Bath. She has widely published on cities, urban marginality and memory, including Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Slave Ownership in Bath and Bristol (2024).

Tomasz Rawski, Ph.D. (2018), is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. He is a political and cultural sociologist. He has published on memory politics, nationalism, war and state socialism in contemporary Eastern Europe and beyond.