Contested pasts, the politics of memory, edited by Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone
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Contributor
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Genre
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Subject
13
- History: specific events & topics
- Philosophical anthropology -- Congresses
- Cultural studies
- Historiography
- History
- Anthropology
- Electronic books
- Social & cultural anthropology
- Historiography + Social aspects -- Congresses
- Social & cultural history
- Memory + Historiography -- Congresses
- Memory + Social aspects -- Congresses
- Cognition & cognitive psychology
Label
Contested pasts, the politics of memory, edited by Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Contested pasts
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone
Sub title
the politics of memory
Summary
This interdisciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory., This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent
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