Theorizing social memories : concepts and contexts / edited by Gerd Sebald and Jatin Wagle.

An introduction / Gerd Sebald & Jatin Wagle -- Concepts -- Life world and trauma : selectivity of social memories / Ilja Srubar -- The social construction of individual and collective memory / Gabriele Rosenthal 3. The Forms of the Past : Temporalities, types and memories / Gerd Sebald -- Temporalities -- Bringing the future back in : temporal registers and the media / Daniel Levy -- On the significance of the past for present and future action / Christian Gudehus -- The heterogeneous time of the postcolonial : inverted memories of Hitler in India / Jatin Wagle -- Functions -- Memory as a means of social integration / Nina Leonhard -- Social memory and the politics of remembering / Matthias Berek -- Exploring the dark side of social memory : towards a social theory of forgetting / Oliver Dimbat & Peter Wehling -- Contexts -- The forms of web-memory / Elena Esposito -- What is the context of memory? / Kobi Kabalek -- Doing social memories : gendered constructions of refugee narratives / Radhika Natarajan.