Future Memory Practices: Across Institutions, Communities, and Modalities (Participatory Memory Practices)

Future Memory Work addresses a crucial challenge in contemporary pluralistic societies: the organisation of open, participatory and socially inclusive memory practices in digital media ecologies.It brings a novel relational approach to future memory work across institutions, people, and modalities. Advancing inter- and transdisciplinary research and rich empirical cases from across Europe and beyond, the book examines how memory practices in digital media are open for engagement of people with diverse backgrounds.It analyses the modalities of memory making and how they can enable institutional and public memory making with a broad spectrum of people and groups in civil society at local, translocal, national and global levels.The chapters examine the mediatized character of memory making, whilst also critically considering what obstacles and potentials emerge from participatory memory work.As a whole, the book is a comprehensive source of knowledge and ideas for creating socially inclus