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The politics of cosmopolitan memory

In this article, I seek to comment on a growing body of work within the field of memory studies that proposes an empirical shift in the nature of collective memory under the impact of the globalized ‘second modernity’. Collective memory is seen as transcending the traditional container of the nation-state and entering into a transnational framework. This transformation is seen as deriving from global processes characterized by the ‘deterritorialisation of politics and culture’ (Tomlinson, 1999) and an increasing ‘internal globalisation’ or ‘cosmopolitanisation’ (Beck, 2006) where global concerns become part of the everyday local experiences and moral life-worlds of people around the world. While global interdependencies linked to migration, economies, ecological and terrorist threats are seen to be animating this shared consciousness, the primary site for the development and proliferation of this transnational memory is located firmly in the representational domain of mass media and electronically based communication. Broadly, this shift is rendered in a positive light with the imagination of a mnemonic community transcending the nation-state seen as providing the basis for post-nationalist political alliances and a more democratic and just global polity. This epochal transformation has been theorized most extensively by Levy and Sznaider, who label the new