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The Politics and Rhetoric of Collective Remembering

The Politics and Rhetoric of Collective Remembering

Richardson, John E.
Milani, Tommaso M.

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LinguisticsGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032827076
ISBN13: 9781032827070
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 21 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

This book critically examines the ways that collective pasts are commemorated and contested in a wide variety of national locations, media and genres.

Collective remembering is a dynamic process, through which narratives about the past, about 'us' and 'them' as well as beliefs, values and affective conditions contained in these stories, are produced and reproduced. This facilitates room for not only the creation of unity but also the potential for contestation and conflict, given that different interpretations of the past are often vehicles for opposing political interests. This book reflects the geographical breadth and empirical depth of the field of collective remembering. Foregrounding the idea that collective remembering always entails contestation, individual chapters explore the field of remembrance and its various genres - including murals, memorials, museums, newspaper reports, speeches, textbooks, tourist tours and the work of community activists - in countries as diverse as Australia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, the UK and the USA.

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