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The Introduction to the volume puts forward a theoretical framework for the examination of memory and securitization in the European context. It provides a critical overview of existing research in memory and securitization to suggest that the memory-securitization nexus requires a separate investigation in a multi-disciplinary, poly-centric and cross-platform setting. In addition, it puts forward a post-structuralist interpretation of memory and securitization, according to which they can be imagined as concepts, can exist as images and visualizations, and can function as allegories of societal action. This is particularly relevant for the era of digitally networked systems such as the internet in which multiple actors are simultaneously involved in the processes of securitization and de-securitization, and in which grassroots activities enjoy the same authority as official institutions. This approach challenges the binary system where the self and the other simply stand for national and global concerns such as climate change.
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In their Remediation (1999) Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin have demonstrated how media re-mediate, or re-fashion previous media, for example, photography re-mediated painting, film re-mediated stage production and photography and so on. Therefore new media always contain and display a memory of earlier media.
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Strukov, V., Apryshchenko, V. (2018). Introduction. In: Strukov, V., Apryshchenko, V. (eds) Memory and Securitization in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95269-4_1
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