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This book seeks to advance a more systematic analysis of the relationship between collective memory and the economy. It addresses both the field of memory studies (where economic aspects are underexplored) and economic history/political economy, where few people take collective memory seriously. This book employs different concepts, approaches, and methodologies to the study of collective memory, and it addresses a variety of specific empirical aspects, brought together under the broad theme of economic crises and transformations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions highlight a variety of economic carriers of memory narratives, with an equal focus on the role of such narratives for the political management of economic transformations, as well as on their significance for longer-term social and cultural change. This book constitutes an agenda-setting exercise for a new field of studies, demonstrating the conceptual and empirical potential it has to inspire more in-depth research in the future.
Contents
.- Introduction: Collective Memory in the Context of Economic Crises and Transformations.- Part I Cyclical Economic Crises.- Battles of Narratives, Battles of Memory: Making Sense of the Ebbs and Flows of the Memory of the Great Depression.- Collective Famine Memories and the Economies of Catastrophe.- Part II Structural Change of Industrial Societies.- Industrial Heritage as a Consequence of Structural Economic Transformations: Rival Conceptualizations in Comparative Perspective.- Industrial Mnemoscapes of Post-Socialism: Heritage Legacies and Diverging Economic Memories.- Part III Systematic Political Transformations.- To Remember Impossible to Forget: The Memory of Entrepreneurship in the Late 19th - Early 21st Century in Ukraine.- Memories of Empire and Embedded Banking: Austrian Bankers Investing in Central Eastern Europe in the 1990s.- Part IV Economic Internationalization.- Impact of the Memory of Kaikoku (Opening the Country to the World) on the Course of Industrialization in Early Meiji Japan.- Harking Back to the 'Golden Age' of National Economies: German Memory Narratives in Times of Economic Internationalization.- Conclusions: Mapping the Economy/Memory Nexus - Themes and Future Agendas.
