This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary research from diverse fields such as psychology, history, education, and cultural studies to examine the interconnections between collective memory, history, and identity. With research and theoretical examples from around the world, this volume presents both majority and minority, powerful and marginalised perspectives on national representations of history and their various identity-relevant antecedents, meanings, and consequences. Several contributions in this volume highlight the tension between engaging conflicted and negative histories with understanding the nation and the self in the present while other contributions extend this conversation to consider the impact of conflicted histories on future generations. The volume is organised into four parts. Part I highlights emerging theoretical discussions of remembering the past from social identity, intergroup emotion, and sociocultural perspectives. Parts II and III both highlight the bi-directional relationship between how people from various dominant and marginalised groups represent the nation and the consequences for contemporary intergroup relations. These sections highlight how national narratives shape our ideas of who we are, collectively, and how motivations and contemporary identity concerns shape how people engage with the past. To conclude, the book wraps up by discussing intergenerational patterns of collective memory in Part IV. Together, the contributions offer insight into how and why historical events can influence our identity, emotions, relationships, and our motivations to engage with the past.

Table of Contents:
PrefaceIntergroup Conflict through a Sociocultural Lens: How Collective Histories and Memories Impact Present-Day Intergroup Understandings and MisunderstandingsThe Complex Question of Social Construction in Nationalism: Is Collective Memory a Top-Down or a Bottom-Up Process?Longing for the Good Old Days of Our Country: Understanding the Triggers, Functions and Consequences of National NostalgiaRepresentations of History and Present-Day Intergroup Relations between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People: The Mapuche in ChileSites of Memory and Social Justice: Waterfords Magdalene LaundryMirabai in History and in the Contemporary Narratives of Women in RajasthanHistorical Narratives and Their Interplay with Templates and National Identification in a Nation-State in Decline: The Case of Flanders (Belgium) in the 21st CenturyMotivated Histories: How Visions of National past Reflect Human Motivations in Poland and GermanyCollective Continuity, Identity, and Group History I Thought Ghettos Just Happened: White Americans Responses to Learning about Place-Based Critical HistoryFraming the American Dream: How the Privileging of U.S. Collective Memory Influences U.S. National Ecocultural Identity and Response to Natural Disasters1939 Redux? Resisting and Endorsing Holocaust Analogies in the Global Refugee CrisisJapanese American Identity, Collective Memory, and the World War II IncarcerationWorld War II Wounds (Not) Healed by Time: Negative Action Tendencies in Sino-Japanese and Taiwanese-Japanese Relations across Two GenerationsMapping Memory Culture in Germany: What, How, and Why Germans RememberIndex.