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Author Viggiani, Elisabetta, author.

Title Talking stones : the politics of memorialization in post-conflit Northern Ireland / Elisabetta Viggiani
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 265 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction Memorials as Silent Extras or Scripted Actors? ; Chapter 1 Collective Memory and the Politics of Memorialization ; Chapter 2 The Armalite and the Paintbrush ; Chapter 3 The 'Landscape of Memorialization' in Belfast ; Chapter 4 The 'Memory Makers' and the Projection of Narratives of the Troubles ; Chapter 5 The Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden ; Chapter 6 The IRSP/INLA Teach Na Fáilte Memorial Committee ; Chapter 7 The 1913 UVF and the Myth of the Somme
Chapter 8 The UDA Sandy Row Memorial Garden Chapter 9 Dissecting Consensus ; Chapter 10 The Memory of the Dead ; Appendix A: List of Memorials ; Appendix B: Emblems and Flags ; Bibliography; Index
Summary If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: "Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves." This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the cre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Memorialization -- Political aspects -- Northern Ireland
Collective memory -- Northern Ireland
Political violence -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Collective memory
Political violence
Politics and government
SUBJECT Northern Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1998-
Subject Northern Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782384083
1782384081
9781785333415
1785333410