MEMORY AND POLITICAL CHANGE by Aleida Assmann (Editor), Linda Shortt (Editor) ( 9780230354241 )

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Title:

MEMORY AND POLITICAL CHANGE

By:

Aleida Assmann (Editor), Linda Shortt (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

0230354246

ISBN 13:

9780230354241

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

8 November, 2011

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Description:

Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions.

Synopsis:

While it is well-known that memory is open to constant changes and transformations, this book adopts an innovative approach, emphasizing memory's role as a powerful agent of change. While political systems may change comparatively quickly, the social and cultural processes of adaptation and transformation take considerably longer. This volume explores memory as both a medium of and an impediment to change, offering an inroad into the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures. Written by authors from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, the essays chart the terrain andsupply well-documented case studiesto extend knowledge on the relationship between social and political memory and the transition process.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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Non-returnable

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