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Title Theorizing social memories : concepts and contexts / edited by Gerd Sebald and Jatin Wagle
Published London : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Routledge Advances in Sociology
Routledge advances in sociology.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Theorizing social memories: an introduction; PART I Concepts; PART II Temporalities; PART III Functions; PART IV Contexts; Index; 1 Lifeworld and trauma: selectivity of social memories; 2 The social construction of individual and collective memory; 3 The forms of the past: temporalities, types, and memories; 4 Bringing the future back in: temporal registers and the media; 5 On the significance of the past for present and future action
6 The heterogeneous time of the postcolonial: inverted memories of Hitler in India7 Memory as a means of social integration; 8 The construction of coherence: reconsidering the political functions of memory; 9 Exploring the dark side of social memory: towards a social theory of forgetting; 10 The forms of Web-memory; 11 What is the context of memory?; 12 Memories engendered in diaspora: multivocal narratives of Tamil refugee women
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Subject Collective memory.
Memory -- Cross-cultural studies
Collective memory
Memory
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Sebald, Gerd, 1966- editor.
Wagle, Jatin, editor
ISBN 9781134586486
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