Description:
During five years of field research in Italy and the Netherlands, the "Bodies Across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond" (BABE) team examined the connection between mobility and memory in Europe. This volume, the outcome of that project, engages with the tensions between roots and routes, history and memory, minds and bodies, macrostructures and micro stories, and control and resistance.
Brief description:
Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita of History at the European University Institute, Florence, and former Principal Investigator of the European Research Project "Bodies across Borders: Oral and Visual Memory in Europe and Beyond."
Review Quotes:
"The fieldwork that these authors have carried out for several years makes this book's insights particularly valuable. Art and images are used in a rich and experimental way to discuss human rights struggles, narratives of memory and identity, changes needed in conceptualising identity and language, and more horizontal ways to address contemporary migration in education." - Margaret Tali, University of Groningen