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The conventional understanding of public remembrance has been contained within the boundaries of the nation, the state, or the local community. With the arrival of what Astrid Erll has called the Bthird phase^of memory studies (Erll 2011, 4), commemoration is now analyzed in terms of its Bunbounded^quality and is Bconsidered a fluid and flexible affair^(Bond et al. 2016, 1). Memory straddles established divides, it moves and travels, and it is actively transformed in the process. And yet, a significant part of what continues to fascinate scholars about memory is its groundedness in concrete locations. The possibility of Bvisiting^one's object of research, of interacting with those who experience memory as the intended (or unintended) audience, and witnessing transnationality Bup close^is what draws scholarly inquiry. So how can we best connect the obvious significance of the local to the reality of transnational remembering? This special issue addresses this tension between the production of remembrance through transnational processes and its grounding in concrete locations. Underlining the presence of transnationality in commemoration, this volume examines how historical events and experiences that transcend national boundaries, global norms, experiences of mobility, or awareness of the Bworld out there^are manifested in particular realms of memory. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds (literary studies, sociology, political science, history, peace, and conflict studies) and focus on memory spaces in a diverse set of geographies-including in Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, and the USA. They also investigate sites dedicated to different and complex pasts that are transnationalized through various mechanisms and with different results for local remembrance. 1
The conventional understanding of public remembrance has been contained within the boundaries of the nation, the state, or the local community. With the arrival of what Astrid Erll has called the Bthird phase^of memory studies (Erll 2011, 4), commemoration is now analyzed in terms of its Bunbounded^quality and is Bconsidered a fluid and flexible affair^(Bond et al. 2016, 1). Memory straddles established divides, it moves and travels, and it is actively transformed in the process. And yet, a significant part of what continues to fascinate scholars about memory is its groundedness in concrete locations. The possibility of Bvisiting^one's object of research, of interacting with those who experience memory as the intended (or unintended) audience, and witnessing transnationality Bup close^is what draws scholarly inquiry. So how can we best connect the obvious significance of the local to the reality of transnational remembering? This special issue addresses this tension between the production of remembrance through transnational processes and its grounding in concrete locations. Underlining the presence of transnationality in commemoration, this volume examines how historical events and experiences that transcend national boundaries, global norms, experiences of mobility, or awareness of the Bworld out there^are manifested in particular realms of memory. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds (literary studies, sociology, political science, history, peace, and conflict studies) and focus on memory spaces in a diverse set of geographies-including in Australia, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, and the USA. They also investigate sites dedicated to different and complex pasts that are transnationalized through various mechanisms and with different results for local remembrance. 1
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