Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colo...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol Bristol University Press [2023]
Series:Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
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Summary:Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities. Featuring an international group of scholars, this book makes important contributions to social memory studies, but also shows how studying memory is vital to our understanding of enduring social problems that span the globe
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
ISBN:9781529218695
DOI:10.56687/9781529218695

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