Memory and Securitization in Contemporary Europe

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The volume is the first study to explore the intersection of memory and securitisation in the European context. By analysing a variety of practices ranging from film to art and new media, the book expands the existing theoretical framework of securitisation. The authors consider memory as a precondition for contemporary integration projects such as the European Union, and also showcase how memory is used to stage international conflicts. Following this memory-securitisation nexus, the European Union, and Europe more generally, emerges as an on-going cultural, political and social project. The book also examines developments outside the EU such as the conflict in Ukraine and the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union, which, the authors argues, have a profound impact on Europe. From a consideration of historical contexts such as national referenda the discussion proceeds to media and film analysis, artistic practice and more transient phenomena such as climate change. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction (Vlad Strukov, Victor Apryshchenko)....Pages 1-21 Memory as Security: Images of the Past in 2014 National Referenda in Europe (Victor Apryshchenko)....Pages 23-50 Securitization, Memory and the (Historic) Debate on Scottish Independence (Ewen A. Cameron)....Pages 51-75 Artistic Commemoration and Securitization: The WWI Centenary and the Creation of Collective Memory in the UK (Martine Rouleau)....Pages 77-100 Performing Memory and Securitization in Belfast (Paul Antick)....Pages 101-122 Europe on the Global Screen: Geopolitical Scotoma, Transnational Cinema of Memory and Hollywood’s Security Choices (Vlad Strukov)....Pages 123-153 Media Genre, Disrupted Memory and the European Securitization Chronotope: Transnationalizing the Lee Rigby Murder (Stephen Hutchings, Kenzie Burchell)....Pages 155-185 Remembering and Securitizing Climate Change in Russian and British Media (Marianna Poberezhskaya)....Pages 187-218 #NoKievNazi: Social Media, Historical Memory and Securitization in the Ukraine Crisis (Mykola Makhortykh)....Pages 219-247 The Economy of Risks in the Eurasian Economic Union: From Common Memory Towards Economic Security (Oxana Karnaukhova)....Pages 249-274 Back Matter ....Pages 275-284