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2025-10-03 11:18:55

So this is out now:
"Intro: Camp Memories in Africa and beyond"
my intro to a special issue on #MemoryStudies and the contested memorialization of #camps in #Africa and beyond

screenshot of the beginning of the mentioned article. Text: Introduction: Camp memories
in Africa and beyond
Jochen Lingelbach
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Abstract
Introducing the special issue on the memorialization of camps in Africa and beyond, this text discusses key
questions of memory studies and the global history of encampment. Whatever their purpose, all camps
are meant to be exceptional, transitory and temporary. Camps are often connected to contested histories
and memorialization…