Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe: Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence

Bys: Karcher, Katharina, Dimcheva, Yordanka, Medina, Mireya Toribio, et al.

This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban terrorism in contemporary Europe, this book shows that current debates on this issue are shaped by multiple co-existing and intersecting memories of political violence in the past. Moreover, despite public declarations of unity and solidarity, collective memories of urban terror in contemporary Europe are far from consensual - memory can be both a catalyst for and an impediment to social and political change. Drawing on case studies from a range of European countries and creative responses by survivors, artists, and poets, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to key methods (e.g. discourse analysis and (auto-)ethnography) and concepts (e.g. Lieux de M moire and 'grassroots memorials') for the study of the memoralization of terror attacks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031537912
• ISBN13: 9783031537912
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 324 Pages