Milieus of memory: Within, across, and between the Mashreq, the Maghreb, and Europe

The thematic of “place” has since the work of Pierre Nora accrued much conceptual currency in social and cultural memory studies. Nora had defined place as lieu, formal remants of a vanishing notion of memory as social practice. Suggesting an alternative notion of place as milieu, the discussion focuses on social memory as proliferations of present-pasts