Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory
This volume pays tribute to Luisa Passerini, whose scholarship has had a major impact on feminist and other scholars around the world. First known internationally for developing new conceptual approaches to oral history and memory studies based on the recognition of the subjective nature of memory, Passerini has more recently written about autobiography, the history of emotions and concepts of belonging in Europe, and reimagining a more inclusive Europe.
In this book, scholars from North America, South America and Europe engage Passerinis groundbreaking insights into the nature of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, autobiography, and love in relation to the themes of borders, emotions, and memory. The contributions deal with topics including Mennonite refugee womens food memories; the testimonies of far-left Chilean women who survived brutal sexualized violence; and memories of the war between East and West Pakistan, and India and Pakistan. Other contributions to the volume situate and reflect on Passerinis career-encompassing scholarship. Passerini speaks with the editors of her latest work on oral and visual memories of human movement, and also offers a thoughtful response to the essays, whose authors represent a transnational and multi-generational group of scholars.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Womens History Review.
Donna R. Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Canada. She has authored or edited books and articles on international, interdisciplinary, and feminist studies of migration. Her work has been honoured by the American Sociological Association and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and she is a past president of the Social Science History Association.
Franca Iacovetta is Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Canada. She has authored or edited books and articles on Canadian, international, and feminist studies of migration, labour, radicalism, internment, pluralism, and the Cold War. Her scholarship has received several awards, including from the Canadian Historical Association, and she is past president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory
Scholarly Engagements with Luisa Passerini
Edited by
Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta
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Contents
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The chapters in this book were originally published in Womens History Review, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory: scholarly engagements with Luisa Passerini
Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta
Womens History Review, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 345364
Chapter 1
The dumpling in my soup was lonely just like me: food in the memories of Mennonite women refugees
Marlene Epp
Womens History Review, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 365381
Chapter 2
Memory Speaks from Today: analyzing oral histories of female members of the MIR in Chile through the work of Luisa Passerini
Hillary Hiner
Womens History Review, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 382407
Chapter 3
On Luisa Passerini: subjectivity, Europe, affective historiography
Ioanna Laliotou
Womens History Review, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 408426
Chapter 4
Destroyed by Love: nation, memory, and humanity in South Asia
Yasmin Saikia
Womens History Review, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 427446
Chapter 5
Response on Borders, Conflict Zones, and Memory
Luisa Passerini
Womens History Review, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 447457
Chapter 6
Bodies Across Borders. Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond (BABE): a conversation with Luisa Passerini, Donna Gabaccia, and Franca Iacovetta
Luisa Passerini, Donna R. Gabaccia, and Franca Iacovetta
Womens History Review, volume 25, issue 3 (June 2016), pp. 458469
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Notes on Contributors
Marlene Epp is Professor of History and Peace and Conflict Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research areas include Mennonite history, the history of immigration and ethnicity in Canada, and the history of food and culture.
Donna R. Gabaccia is Professor of History at the Department of Historical and Culture Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. She has authored or edited books and articles on international, interdisciplinary, and feminist studies of migration. Her work has been honoured by the American Sociological Association and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and she is a past president of the Social Science History Association.
Hillary Hiner is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
Franca Iacovetta is Professor of History at the Department of Historical and Culture Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. She has authored or edited books and articles on Canadian, international, and feminist studies of migration, labour, radicalism, internment, pluralism, and the Cold War. Her scholarship has received several awards, including from the Canadian Historical Association, and she is past president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
