Contested pasts
Subtitle: the politics of memory
By: edited by Katherine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone.
Contributors: Hodgkin, Katharine, 1961-; Radstone, Susannah.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Memory -- Social aspects.; Memory -- Political aspects.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.