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Title The social life of memory : violence, trauma, and testimony in Lebanon and Morocco / Norman Saadi Nikro, Sonja Hegasy, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages)
Series Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict
Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict.
Summary This edited volume addresses memory practices among youth, families, cultural workers, activists, and engaged citizens in Lebanon and Morocco. In making a claim for?the social life of memory,? the introduction discusses a particular research field of memory studies, elaborating an approach to memory in terms of social production and engagement. The Arab Spring is evoked to draw attention to new rifts within and between history and remembrance in the regions of North Africa and the Middle East. As authoritarian forms of governance are challenged, official panoramic narratives are confronted with a multiplicity of memories of violent pasts. The eight chapters trace personal and public inventories of violence, trauma, and testimony, addressing memory in cinema, in newspapers and periodicals, as an experience of public environments, through transnational and diasporic mediums, and amongst younger generations
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Subject Collective memory -- Lebanon
Collective memory -- Morocco
Memory -- Social aspects -- Lebanon
Memory -- Social aspects -- Morocco
Violence -- Lebanon
Violence -- Morocco
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
Collective memory
Memory -- Social aspects
Violence
Lebanon
Morocco
Form Electronic book
Author Saadi Nikro, Norman, editor.
Hegasy, Sonja, editor.
ISBN 9783319666228
3319666223