Composed of a foreword, introduction and six parts (each with their own introductory discussion) and, in total, 78 individual short essays involving 91 contributors, The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism is without doubt the broadest discussion of memory activism to date. For the organisational feats needed to bring such a publication to completion, its editors and their supporting team of section editors should be congratulated. Reviewing such a wide-ranging handbook comes with challenges. I have read about a third of it including essays from each of its parts and in time I will read much more. My review cannot reflect on each of the well-written and researched essays (although I mention some). Instead, it discusses what the handbook conveys about the current state of memory activism research more generally. It also prioritises my own current research interests, not least those regarding the place of the state within the manifold connections between memory and activism.
Review of: The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism. Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg (eds) with Irit Dekel, Kaitlin M Murphy, Benjamin Nienass, Joanna Wawrzyniak and Kerry Whigham.