num_pages: 280
description: Remapping Memory was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The essays in this book focus on contested memories in relation to time and space. Within the context of several profound cultural and political conflicts in the contemporary world the contributors analyze historical self-configurations of human groups and the construction by these groups of the spaces they shape and that shape them. What emerges is a view of the state as a highly contingent artifact of groups vying for legitimacy-whether through their own sense of insiderhood their control of positions within hierarchies or their control of geographical territories. Boyarin's lead essay shows how the supposedly objective categories of space and time are in fact specific products of European modernity. Each case study in turn addresses the (re)constitution of space time and memory in relation to an event either of historical significance like the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima or of cultural importance like the Indian preoccupation with reincarnation. These ethnographic studies explore fundamental questions about the nature of memory the limits of politics and the complex links between them. By focusing on personal and collective identity as the site where constructions of memory and dimensionality are tested shaped and effected the authors offer a new way of understanding how the politics of space time and memory are negotiated to bring people to terms with their history. Akhil Gupta Stanford University; Charles R. Hale University of California Davis; Carina Perelli PEITHO Montevideo Uruguay; Jennifer Schirmer Center for European Studies Harvard; Daniel A. Segal Pitzer College Claremont California; Lisa Yoneyama University of California San Diego.
language: English
title: Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press