Between memory sites and memory networks

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How do societies remember their past, especially before the advent of computers, printing, and writing? This collection reviews prior research on memory in history and social sciences while exploring how social groups have memorialized events and made them enduring through materialization. Contributors examine how negative and disruptive processes shape group identities. The papers contrast the monumentalization of singular, hegemonic events with more localized and diverse memory places and networks. Case studies reveal that these memory scapes can foster divergent, multivocal, and subversive narratives. Various imagined geographies allow for manipulation, preservation, and control. Spanning from the late Neolithic to the recent past, the volume offers a long-term, multi-focal perspective, illustrating how perceptions of past events evolve and are reshaped by different groups over time. Contributions highlight that manipulations of the past do not always yield expected outcomes, as attempts at "post-factual history" are often challenged by the socially distributed, spatially anchored nature of memorialization.