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This article explores the strong correlations between mnemonic strategies and mnemonic triggers within family narratives. Families form narrative collectives with their own codes of narrative evocation. One sentence, even only one word, might open up a bundle of memories shared by all immediate kin. Such sharing can, however, be practised and interpreted differently by each family member; stories are also utilised strategically to bond with one family member and sideline another. Given the specific German context of this analysis, its stories and mnemonic devices demonstrate strategies of collective and individual dissociation and victimisation. They also lead us to better understand how very normal, average Germans might have tried to live a decent life with Christian and left-leaning political values, while having no techniques, post 1945, for articulating or reflecting on either trauma or National Socialism and their lasting impact on their nation. As with most other families, the war and post-war period was dominated by memories of struggle and collective grief. Survival narratives use emplotments that can be traced through generations of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren. Exploring such transgenerational conversations enables us to widen the perspective from transgenerational trauma towards a framework of compassion and narrative agency.

This article explores the strong correlations between mnemonic strategies and mnemonic triggers within family narratives. Families form narrative collectives with their own codes of narrative evocation. One sentence, even only one word, might open up a bundle of memories shared by all immediate kin. Such sharing can, however, be practised and interpreted differently by each family member; stories are also utilised strategically to bond with one family member and sideline another. Given the specific German context of this analysis, its stories and mnemonic devices demonstrate strategies of collective and individual dissociation and victimisation. They also lead us to better understand how very normal, average Germans might have tried to live a decent life with Christian and left-leaning political values, while having no techniques, post 1945, for articulating or reflecting on either trauma or National Socialism and their lasting impact on their nation. As with most other families, the war and post-war period was dominated by memories of struggle and collective grief. Survival narratives use emplotments that can be traced through generations of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren. Exploring such transgenerational conversations enables us to widen the perspective from transgenerational trauma towards a framework of compassion and narrative agency.

"Local Lives" contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced belonging and the anxieties of being uprooted. By addressing the question of how migrants legally and symbolically lay claim to owning and belonging to place, it refocuses our attention on the micro-politics and everyday rituals of place-making, that are central to the construction of migrant identities. Exploring immigrants` interactions with house spaces, property rights, environmental conservation, landscape, historical knowledge of place, ideas of `local community` and place-specific `traditions`, this volume shows how, in a fluid world of movement, locality remains a deeply contested and symbolically rich place to situate identity and to constitute the self. Thematically organised and presenting a diverse range of empirical studies dealing with migrant communities in Hawaii, Britain, France, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic and Albania, Local Lives reorients research in migration and transnational studies around locality. As such, it will appeal to social scientists working on questions relating to landscape, identity and belonging; race and ethnicity; and migration and transnationalism.

The historical injustices inflicted upon Maori by colonization are being addressed by the New Zealand state through reparations processes conducted under the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840. In this antipodean version of transitional justice, indigenous and western worldviews confront each other in fundamental ways. Methodologically, for example, `western' legal and historical scholars are faced with the challenge of an oral-based indigeneity whose goals transcend those of the reparations system. The resulting complex series of interactions are transacted differentially between disciplines. With the legal profession focusing on text, western historians on context and indigenous scholars on orality, problems abound. These are further complicated by the essentially political nature of `Treaty settlement' negotiations. But legal and historical disciplines are showing signs of flexible and innovative approaches to indigenous perspectives (and vice versa). And on a practical level, settlements are being signed. The ultimate test of `healing the past' in an increasingly bicultural country will be, however, whether the experiences of the Treaty reparations processes assist the parties to reach arrangements that meet the indigenous aspiration which dominates the history of Crown—Maori relations in New Zealand: the attainment of the rangatiratanga/autonomy promised in the Maori version of the second article of the Treaty.

Machine generated contents note:Engaged scholarship and Treaty claims --New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi reconciliation processes: A Maori Treaty educator's perspective /Peter Adds --Ki wiwi, ki wawa: Normalising the Maori language /Rawinia Higgins --Recognising Maori legal traditions in reconciliation: Issues of theory and research methodology /Carwyn Jones --Intergenerational investments or selling ancestors?: Maori perspectives of privatising New Zealand electricity-generating assets /Marama Muru-Lanning --Reflecting on negotiations --Settling historical Maori claims under the Treaty of Waitangi: An assessment of the first twenty-five years, 1989 -- 2014 /Richard S. Hill --Reconciliation and resolution: The Office of Treaty Settlements and the Treaty of Waitangi claims process in Aotearoa New Zealand /Therese Crocker --Negotiations for reconciliation: How they can exacerbate division as well as promote reconciliation /Richard Boast --Waikato-Tainui and Ngai Tahu's Treaty-settlement negotiations with the Crown /Martin Fisher --Reflecting on modes of engagement --Forty years on: A personal view of the history of the Waitangi Tribunal, 1975-2015 /Barry Rigby --Mock fighting and performed reconciliation: Some examples from Maori and Tahitian custom /Paul Meredith --Mana whenua and the ownership of nature: Challenges to the co-governance of natural resources in Aotearoa New Zealand /Tanja Rother --Powhiri for the ancestors: Representation of Indigeneity and reconciliation in a Maori ritual /Tanja Schubert-McArthur --Two peoples?: Demographic changes from first contact to the 21st century /Paul Callister.

Analysing migrant narratives as an ethnographic project : academic representation as storytelling / Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich -- Narratives of absence : making sense of loss and liminality in the post-war Bosnian diaspora / Laura Huttunen -- Home at last: Narrating community and belonging through retirement migration to Spain / Anya Ahmed -- Homecoming as exile? Experiences of rupture and belonging / Anastasia Christou -- Female agency, resourceful victimhood and heroines in migrant narrative / Silke Meyer -- "When you win, you are a German, when you lose, you are a foreigner" : claiming position beyond the meritocratic and discriminatory migration discourse / Claudius Ströhle -- "None of these are jokes, it's just my life..." : migrant narratives and female agency in Shazia Mirza's comedy / Ulla Rathheiser -- The Syrian taxi driver : migrant narratives or narratives of a researcher? / Anton Jakob Escher -- Reluctant stories : silences in women's narratives of war and exile / Marita Eastmond -- Planting the colonial narrative : the migrant letters of James Taylor in Ceylon / Angela McCarthy -- The "Titanic legacy" : collective narratives as resources of diasporic communities / Marie Johanna Karner -- Migrant ethnography on YouTube : "GermanLifeStyle" and the German "refugee crisis" / Mita Banerjee -- The migrant storyteller : mnemonic and narrative strategies in migrant stories / Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich and Silke Meyer.