| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 128 pages) |
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Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies |
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Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Making of Memory Policies -- Remembrance as a Way to Open Minds and Hearts -- The Leitmotiv of Memory Policies -- Emotion, Dialogue, and Individuation -- Memory Policy Tools -- Memory Museums and Civic Transformation -- Memory Education in Schools -- Memory in Courts and Truth Commissions -- "Never Again": The Effectiveness of Memory Policy -- Memory Policies Have Not Evacuated Intolerance -- (Re)framing the Question of the Effects of Memory Policy -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Memory Policies in Action |
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School Memories: Social "Noise" in the Classroom -- Reticence: Fulfilling One's Role as a Teacher by Evoking the Violent Past -- Do Memory Policies Foster Indifference Instead of Tolerance? -- Social Frameworks of Memory: From School to Family -- Ordinary Social Interactions and the Appropriation of Lessons of the Past -- Memories in the Museum: Recognizing the Past -- Visiting and Revisiting the Past -- From the Transmission of Values to Their Reinforcement -- Ordinary Social Interactions Are Always Present -- Truth Commissions: Collective Healing for Trauma? |
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Painful Memories at the Heart of Truth Commissions -- Banality in the Lives of Victims Who Are Made Witnesses -- Trials for Memory: The Law Is the Law (and Politics)! -- Lessons from the Past or Verdicts from a Trial? -- Memory Trials as Ordinary Trials -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: The Effects of Memory -- Can Individuals Really Be Changed? -- Memory Policies Do Not Educate Individuals -- What Good Are Lessons from the Past When Someone Hands You a Gun? -- The Political Power of Memory Policies -- The Relational Effects of Memory Policies -- When Memory Policy Gives Rise to "Victims." |
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Is Memory Activism Special? -- The Small World of Memory Entrepreneurs -- The Memorial Enterprise: Job Markets and Social Spheres -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Memory Is Not Enough: Can Memory Policies Be More Effective? -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book provides a fresh perspective on the familiar belief that memory policies are successful in building peaceful societies. Whether in a stable democracy or in the wake of a violent political conflict, this book argues that memory policies are unhelpful in preventing hate, genocide, and mass crimes. Since the 1990s, transmitting the memory of violent pasts has been utilised in attempts to foster tolerance and fight racism, hate and antisemitism. However, countries that invested in memory policies have overseen the rise of hate crimes and populisms instead of growing social cohesion. Breaking with the usual moralistic position, this book takes stock of this situation. Where do these memory policies come from? Whom do they serve? Can we make them more effective? In other words, can we really learn from the past? At a time when memory studies is blooming, this book questions the normative belief in the effects of memory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Collective memory -- Political aspects
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Collective memory -- Social aspects
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Memorialization -- Political aspects
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Memorialization -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lefranc, Sandrine, author
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Throssell, Katharine, translator
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| ISBN |
9783030342029 |
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3030342026 |
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