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eBook
Talking stones
2014
Overview
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 creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose \"official\" collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.
Publisher
Berghahn Books,Berghahn,Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject
/ Architecture and Architectural History
/ Collective memory -- Northern Ireland
/ History
/ Landmarks & monuments- JHMC- JFCD
/ Memorialization -- Political aspects -- Northern Ireland
/ Northern Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1994
/ Northern Ireland-Politics and government-1998
/ Political violence -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
9781782384083, 1782384081, 9781782384076, 1782384073
