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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory

Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis

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Editors:
  1. Orli Fridman

    1. Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), School of International Training (SIT), Belgrade, Serbia

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  2. Sarah Gensburger

    1. French National Centre for Scientific Research - Sciences Po, Paris, France

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  • First book to offer a global approach to the impact of the pandemics on the way contemporary societies remember
  • This book answers two questions: did the pandemics change commemoration? how will the Covid crisis be remembered?
  • Critically analyzes memory during covid & memory of covid with novice and empirical work in memory studies

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction: Unlocking Memory Studies: Understanding Collective Remembrance During and of Covid-19

    • Orli Fridman, Sarah Gensburger
    Pages 1-20

  3. Correction to: Pandemic from the Margins: How United-States-Based College Students Think the Pandemic Should Be Remembered

    • Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Jill Strauss
    Pages C1-C1

  4. Can We Speak of a Covid Memory Boom?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. “It seemed right to keep some sort of history”: Performances of Digital Memory Work by Young Women in London During Covid-19

      • Taylor Annabell
      Pages 23-42

    3. Picturing Lockdown in the UK: Memorializing an Ongoing Crisis

      • Tracy Adams, Sara Kopelman
      Pages 43-63

    4. #Mémoriascovid19: Reimagining and Narrating Trauma in the Core of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil

      • Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel, João Felipe Rufatto Ferreira
      Pages 65-86

    5. The Danger of a Single Story: Epic-Pandemic Narratologies and Memorials of COVID-19 in Nigeria

      • Ayokunmi Ojebode, Stephen O. Solanke, Oluwabusayo Okunloye
      Pages 87-107

    6. Pandemic from the Margins: How United-States-Based College Students Think the Pandemic Should Be Remembered

      • Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Jill Strauss
      Pages 109-129

  5. Commemorative Events Between Memory Politics and Protests: What Has Changed During the Lockdowns?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. “No quarantine to workers’ rights”: Recontextualizing Labour Day Commemoration in the Semiotic Landscape of a Pandemic Demonstration

      • Roula Kitsiou, Stella Bratimou
      Pages 133-151

    3. The Struggle to Remember Tiananmen Under COVID-19 and the National Security Law in Hong Kong

      • Francis L. F. Lee
      Pages 153-174

    4. “Memory Does Not Quarantine”: COVID-19, Remembering the Coup, and the Struggle for Democracy in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

      • Macarena Moraga
      Pages 175-197

    5. Human Rights Day: Grassroots Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in South Africa

      • Joseph Mairomola Ngoaketsi
      Pages 199-218

  6. Memorial Museums and National Days: Did Digital Practices Transform Commemoration in Times of the Pandemic?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
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    2. “Le goût d’un jour de fête”? Commemorating the End of the Second World War on Twitter During the Lockdown: A Comparison Between France and Italy

      • Frédéric Clavert, Deborah Paci
      Pages 221-244

    3. #Hashtag Commemoration: A Comparison of Public Engagement with Commemoration Events for Neuengamme, Srebrenica, and Beau Bassin During Covid-19 Lockdowns

      • Victoria Grace Walden, Mykola Makhortykh
      Pages 245-266

    4. #DigitalMemorial(s): How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory

      • Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Tom Divon
      Pages 267-294

    5. Holocaust Remembrance on Facebook During the Lockdown: A Turning Point or a Token Gesture?

      • Stefania Manca, Martin Rehm, Susanne Haake
      Pages 295-318

    6. Epilogue: Did the Pandemic Change the Future of Memory?

      • Orli Fridman, Sarah Gensburger
      Pages 319-325
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About this book

​This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped, expanded, and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view of these changes as well as of the continuities that went with them, the book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and commemoration.

The book aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory to understand both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic: what happened then to commemorative practices and rituals around the world? How has the Covid-19 pandemic been archived and remembered? What will remembering it actually entail, and what will it mean in the future? Where did the Covid memory boom come from? Who was behind it, how did it emerge, and in what socialconfigurations did it evolve?




Reviews

This jewel of a book sets a new persuasive agenda for memory studies by an international group of scholars. Exploring individual and collective mnemonic practices that took place during Covid-19 and of Covid-19, this book offers indispensable contributions to timely questions: Has the pandemic transformed mnemonic practices? Will Covid-19 become part of collective memory?"
—Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


"How the Covid-19 pandemic unlocked memory. A truly international cast of authors throw light on archiving, mobilization, and the digitalization of memory – from Athens to Brazil, from Nigeria to Hong Kong. Essential reading for everyone interested in Corona and collective memory."
—Astrid Erll, Goethe University Frankfurt 


"This innovative volume documents a profound transformation in digital memory practices triggered by the covid-19 pandemic. Empirically rich contributions interrogate mnemonic activism as a response to trauma, a form of protest and an homage to legacies of violence. It is an essential reference for the study of memory."
—Denisa Kostovicova, London School of Economics and Political Science

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), School of International Training (SIT), Belgrade, Serbia

    Orli Fridman

  • French National Centre for Scientific Research - Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Sarah Gensburger

About the editors

Orli Fridman is an associate professor at the Belgrade Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) and the academic director of the SIT learning center in Serbia. She is the author of Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories (2022).  


Sarah Gensburger is a professor at CNRS-Sciences Po Paris. Her most recent books are Beyond Memory. Can we really learn from the past? (Palgrave, 2020, with S. Lefranc) and Memory on my doorstep. Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood (2019).   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Memory

  • Book Subtitle: Remembrance, commemoration, and archiving in crisis

  • Editors: Orli Fridman, Sarah Gensburger

  • Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34597-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34596-8Published: 15 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34599-9Due: 19 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34597-5Published: 14 December 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6257

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 332

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Memory Studies, Digital/New Media

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