Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh of ODID has co-edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies on Refugee and Diaspora Memories with Thomas Lacroix of the Universite de Poitiers.

The Special Issue, Journal of Intercultural Studies 34 (6), opens up a conversation between three multidisciplinary fields: memory studies, diaspora studies and refugee studies.

The introductory paper articulates an analytical framework addressing various forms of memories of displacement, defining the concepts of exilic and diasporic memories with regard to the classical and post-modern conceptions of diasporas and showing, beyond their formal opposition, the extent to which these two notions interrelate.

Four main themes in turn cut across the collection of papers in the Special Issue: the relationship between individual and collective memories; the diversity of actors (re)producing memory narratives; the transmission, negotiation and contestation of memory across space and between generations; and the confrontational and syncretic dynamics which exist between different types of memories.

As a whole, the Special Issue draws on historical and contemporary case studies from across Europe, North Africa, South East Asia and Australia to address the political implications of the production and dissemination of memories of displacement.

Read the issue.