Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Patrick Finney
  • Part I. National memory cultures?
  • A nation united? The impossible memory of war and occupation in France / Margaret Atack
  • Generation war and post-didactic memory: the Nazi past in contemporary Germany / Bill Niven
  • Remembering and forgetting war and occupation in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan / Edward Vickers
  • Part II. Transnational transactions
  • Isaac Fadoyebo's journey: remembering the British empire's Second World War / Patrick Finney
  • The Soviet War Memorial in Vienna: geopolitics of memory and the new Russian diaspora in post-Cold War Europe / Tatiana Zhurzhenko
  • Abolitionism in the history of the transnational "Justice for Comfort Women" movement in Japan and South Korea / Caroline Norma
  • Part III. Local and sectional memories
  • The treachery of memorials: beyond war remembrance in contemporary Okinawa / Gerald Figal
  • The Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan: imperial, national and local remembrance / Joan Beaumont
  • The memory of the Joop Westerweel resistance movement in Israel and the Netherlands / Joyce van de Bildt
  • Part IV. Practices of remembrance
  • A holy relic of war: the Soviet victory banner as artefact / Jeremy Hicks
  • Experiencing and performing memory: Second World War videogames as a practice of remembrance / Eva Kingsepp
  • Touching landscapes? Embodied experiences of holocaust tourism and memory / Tim Cole
  • Afterword: entangled memories of the Second World War / Jie-Hyun Lim.