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.
| ISBN: | 9780415286473 |
| Publication date: | 6th March 2003 |
| Author: | Katherine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history |
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.
Contested Pasts features in the following genres: Social and cultural history
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Contested Pasts was written by Katherine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Contested Pasts has 264 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative series
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