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Transnational Memory
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ISBN: 3110486016 3110359103 3110386739 3110359022 9783110359022 9783110359107 9783110386738 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach, it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality, migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the nation-state.


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Talking Stones
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ISBN: 1782384081 9781782384083 9781785333415 1785333410 9781782384076 1782384073 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Oxford

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If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: "Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves." This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the cre


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Erinner dich, dass du Gott vergisst
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ISBN: 9783869456850 386945685X 9783883098777 3883098779 Year: 2014 Publisher: Nordhausen

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Die Arbeit widmet sich dem Versuch, die Konsequenz eines wirklichen Atheismus im Kontext von Erinnerung und Geschichtszusammenhang zu erfassen. Dabei wird der Frage nach der Definition und Ausprägung eines Atheismus nachgegangen, ebenso wie nach Erinnerung und Gedächtnis und der Rolle der Religion dabei. Der Atheismus wird hierbei als ein Versuch aufgefasst, den Menschen als geschichtliches Wesen von einer christlichen Tradition und Gott zu befreien. Die Konzentration liegt hierbei auf der umfassenden philosophisch-atheistischen Konzeption des französischen Existenzialismus, der Philosophie de


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Shadows of the slave past : memory, heritage, and slavery
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ISBN: 9780415853927 9780203747766 9781135011956 9781135011963 9781138200722 Year: 2014 Volume: 30 Publisher: New York London Routledge


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Space and the memories of violence : landscapes of erasure, disappearance and exception
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ISBN: 9781137380906 Year: 2014 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan


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The postcolonial museum : the arts of memory and the pressures of history
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ISBN: 9781472415677 1472415671 9781472415684 9781472415691 9781315554105 9781317019619 9781317019626 9780815346609 Year: 2014 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; : Burlington, VT :. Ashgate,

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This book examines how we can conceive of a "postcolonial museum" in the contemporary epoch of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies. The authors consider the museum space, practices and institutions in the light of repressed histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures. Focusing on the transformation of museums as cultural spaces, rather than physical places, is to propose a living archive formed through creation, participation, production and innovation. The aim is to propose a critical assessment of the museum in the light of those transcultural and global migratory movements that challenge the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. This involves a search for new strategies and critical approaches in the fields of museum and heritage studies which will renew and extend understandings of European citizenship and result in an inevitable re-evaluation of the concept of "modernity" in a so-called globalised and multicultural world.


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Jewish Spain : a Mediterranean memory
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ISBN: 0804791880 9780804791885 9780804787390 0804787395 Year: 2014 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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This volume centres on the historic relationship between Spain and the Jews in key moments of the 20th century and shows that it is impossible to understand and articulate what Spain was, is, and will be without taking into account both 'Muslim Spain' and 'Jewish Spain'. Its main argument revolves around the uses of the remote past in texts that depict the memory of complicated circumstances of Jewish life in Spain and in Northern Morocco during the Spanish Civil War, the Francoist repression in the postwar years, and World War II.


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Forever Vietnam : how a divisive war changed American public memory
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ISBN: 1613762976 9781613762974 1625341008 9781625341006 9781625341006 9781625340993 1625340990 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press,


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Mapping generations of traumatic memory in American narratives
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ISBN: 1443861626 9781443861625 1306875862 9781306875868 144385672X 9781443856720 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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This volume collects work by several European, North American, and Australian academics who are interested in examining the performance and transmission of post-traumatic memory in the contemporary United States. The contributors depart from the interpretation of trauma as a unique exceptional event that shatters all systems of representation, as seen in the writing of early trauma theorists like Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, and Dominick LaCapra. Rather, the chapters in this collection are ...


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Europe in its own eyes, Europe in the eyes of the other
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ISBN: 1554588669 9781554588671 1554588677 9781554588664 9781554588404 1554588405 Year: 2014 Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario

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What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of others across a variety of cultural texts, including sport, film, literature, dance, cartography, and fashion. These texts, as interpreted here by emerging researchers as well as well-established scholars, enable us to engage with European identities in the plural and to understand what these identities mean in larger cultural and political contexts. The interdisciplinary focus of this volume permits an exploration of European identity that reaches beyond the area of European studies to incorporate understandings of identity from the viewpoints of both insider and other. Contributors explore diverse understandings of what it means to be “other” to a country, a culture, a society, or a subgroup. This book offers a fresh perspective on the evolving concept of identity—in the context of Europe’s past, present, and future—and expands on the existing literature by considering the political tensions and social implications of the development of European identity, as well as its literary, artistic, and cultural manifestations.

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