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Locality, History, Memory

Author : Rita Mukherjee,M. N. Rajesh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443804271

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Locality, History, Memory by Rita Mukherjee,M. N. Rajesh Pdf

Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia was born out of the need to interrogate the tropes through which place, history and memory underpin notions of citizenship in present Southasia. Time as both time present and time past is framed here in two settings: as privileging both place (material or ideological site) and space. The latter refers to religion, oppression, marginalization and/or dalitisation. Time transcends both site/location and actual physical boundaries. Locality or location is therefore envisioned in terms of both actual place as well as a gateway to a larger space, in terms of a situation where historical memory negotiates the increasingly complex present. Agency and contingency therefore assume a critical importance here. Citizenship, far from being a discrete entity, is found to be multidimensional: it refers to formal status and the legal status of nationality and citizenship authenticated in the passport, but it also refers to rights and privileges; identity and solidarity, religious beliefs and a sense of belonging. Moving away from the role of the state, which has been at the centre of all inquiries on citizenship, we ask here the following questions in Locality, History, Memory: How does our history enforce or dilute the notion of the citizen? How far does memory strengthen or weaken it? What role does features not normally associated with citizenship such as access to natural resources, or ritual, faith and religion play in reinforcing such a status? History in the end is written by the historian and it was easy to map the changing methodologies used by the historians to essay the past but this is becoming increasingly difficult now. Another twist is the shift to hypertext at a popular level echoing what the late E H Carr had once called ‘bringing more and more people into history’. These so called alternative histories or people’s histories are becoming more and more popular because of the point at which we are located in time. Moreover, devices afforded by the new media enable these alternative histories to have an immediacy that the conventional historical format lacked. The collapse of state control over the new media has led to the resurgence of many archaic voices unimaginable just a decade ago.

Defining Memory

Author : Amy K. Levin
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759113886

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Defining Memory by Amy K. Levin Pdf

Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors argue that these small institutions play a key role in defining America's self-identity and should be studied as seriously as more national institutions like the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Locality, Memory, Reconstruction

Author : Jopi Nyman,Risto Turunen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443835404

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Locality, Memory, Reconstruction by Jopi Nyman,Risto Turunen Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of culture in single-industry communities facing the loss of their major industry. In a series of innovative case studies extending from New Zealand and Slovenia to the contemporary Nordic and Baltic States, the contributors address a wide range of topical issues. These include the role of the community’s past as a marker of its newly reconstructed identity and the importance of local traditions, landscapes, and place-related memories in post-industrial communities formerly dependent on one single employer or industry. The empirical case studies emphasise the role of cultural memory and local identity as communal strategies of survival and perseverance in such places and provide fresh perspectives into this turn to culture. The four parts of the book address such topics as the symbolic governance of change, tradition as capital, narratives as collective memories, and post-Soviet transition in comparative perspective. The team of international contributors hails from Australia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, and Slovenia and represents the fields of sociology, cultural policy, cultural history, landscape studies, and geography.

Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930

Author : Christina Koulouri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000638653

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Historical Memory in Greece, 1821–1930 by Christina Koulouri Pdf

This book presents a social and cultural history of collective memory in modern Greece during the first century of state independence, contributing to the debate over the relationship between memory and identity. It discusses how modern Greek society commemorated its distant and recent pasts, both real and imagined, namely antiquity, Byzantium, the Greek Revolution and the Asia Minor Catastrophe; how cultural memory was shaped by the various war experiences (victory, defeat, mass death and mourning, refugeedom); and how memory politics became arenas of social and political strife. Historical painting, monuments, historical pageantry, tableaux vivants, national anniversaries, performances of ancient drama and revivals of ancient games are analyzed as instances where the past was visualized, represented, performed and "consumed". An explosion in public history has taken place over the last decades around the world, with a veritable flood of commemorations, anniversaries and "memory wars". As more and more social groups claim the "right to remember", public discourse and polemics have arisen at the same time that traumatic memory has become a field of international academic research. In the arena of public history, historical memory is being constructed through the sentimental, irrational reception of mythological narratives told through images.

Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World

Author : M. Beyen,B. Deseure
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137469380

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Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World by M. Beyen,B. Deseure Pdf

In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political élites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangular negotiation between local, national and transnational actors.

Place and Locality in Modern France

Author : Philip Whalen,Patrick Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780938226

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Place and Locality in Modern France by Philip Whalen,Patrick Young Pdf

Place and Locality in Modern France analyses the significance and changing constructions of local place in modern France. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars from around the world, this book provides a timely overview of the cross-disciplinary thinking that is currently taking place over a central issue in French history. The contributed chapters address a range of subjects that include: the politics of administrative reform, decentralization, regionalism and local advocacy; the role of commerce in engendering narratives and experience of local place; the importance of ethnic, class, gender and race distinctions in shaping local connection and identity; the generation and transmission of knowledge about local place and culture through academia, civic heritage and popular memory. As a reconsideration of the 'local' in French history, Place and Locality in Modern France bridges the divide between micro- and macro-history for all those interested in ideas of locality and culture in modern French and European history.

History, Memory and Migration

Author : Irial Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137010230

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History, Memory and Migration by Irial Glynn Pdf

By conversing with the main bodies of relevant literature from Migration Studies and Memory Studies, this overview highlights how analysing memories can contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migrant incorporation. The chapters consider international case studies from Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

Author : Katie Donington,Ryan Hanley,Jessica Moody
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781383551

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Britain’s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery by Katie Donington,Ryan Hanley,Jessica Moody Pdf

This collection brings together local case studies of Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and abolition, including the role of individuals and families, regional identity narratives, sites of memory and forgetting, and the financial, architectural and social legacies of slave-ownership.

Settlement and Local Histories of the Early Deccan

Author : Aloka Parasher Sen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000361124

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Settlement and Local Histories of the Early Deccan by Aloka Parasher Sen Pdf

This book is a detailed account of the multi-faceted history of the Deccan. Beginning with its historical foundations it goes on to delineate how it is the key to understanding its social, economic, political and ideological evolution. Containing nine essays, this volume attempts to look at regional history from the perspective of given localities that provides the many facets of early Deccani society and culture. Hitherto, this was mainly articulated in terms of the broad categories of language and religion in the many historical studies of present-day linguistic states. In focussing on local spatial contexts as the primary layer of historical reality, the book has relied on multiple sources of information, largely extant archaeological material while also drawing information from inscri­ptions, textual material and oral memory. The book also reflects on the important events of various periods by placing them as part of larger social and economic processes emanating from the local. The essays in this collection have been presented thematically moving from general issues discussed in Part I to the more particular in Part II and finally, to reflect on the multiplicity and simultaneity of different kinds of processes in a constant state of negotiation, in Part III. The historical sensibilities of people in various locations right from Kotalingala and Dhulikatta to Phanigiri, Patancheru, Kondapur and Nanakramguda and from Thotlakonda to Nagarjunakonda, Amaravati, Vaddamanu and Shravan Belgola have been recounted. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Harry Thomas' Memory Lane Vol IV

Author : Harry Thomas
Publisher : Gwasg Helygain Ltd
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Prestatyn (Wales)
ISBN : 9780955033865

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Harry Thomas' Memory Lane Vol IV by Harry Thomas Pdf

This is the 4th in this popular series taken from the Rhyl & Prestatyn Visitor Newspaper. Harry's ability to marry old photos with interesting tales from the area are unsurpassed. More local pics and stories make this an ideal gift for anyone with an interest in the area

Defining Memory

Author : Amy K. Levin,Joshua G. Adair
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781538107898

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Defining Memory by Amy K. Levin,Joshua G. Adair Pdf

This updated edition of Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled “Museums Moving Forward,” which analyzes the ways in which local museums have come to adopt digital technologies in selecting items for exhibitions as well as the complexities of creating institutions devoted to marginalized histories. In addition to the new chapters, the second edition updates existing chapters, presenting changes to the museums discussed. It features expanded discussions of how local museums treat (or ignore) racial and ethnic diversity and concludes with a look at how business relationships, political events, and the economy affect what is shown and how it is displayed in local museums.

Mystic Chords of Memory

Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679741770

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Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history. . . . Insightful and sardonic."—Washington Post Book World In this groundbreaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity. How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly."—Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task. . . . An important book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves."—Milwaukee Journal

Pelagic Passageways

Author : Rila Mukherjee
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789380607207

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Due to the frontierization of nation-states, maritime historians have tended to ignore the northern Bay of Bengal. Yet, this marginal region, now dispersed over the four nation-states of India, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh, was not marginal in the past. Until recently, however, historians have concentrated largely on the 'big four': the Gujarat, Malabar, Coromandel and western Bengal coasts. Extreme eastern South Asia -- Bengal and the lands to its north-east fanning into Burma and China, or modern India's north-east and beyond -- is the focus of Pelagic Passageways. This regional unit, including diverse topographic features: plains, forests, estuaries, deltas, rivers, mountains, lakes, plateaus and remote passes, oscillates between unity and fragmentation, between centrality and marginality in the larger space of the Bay of Bengal. To attempt a history of this space is indeed challenging. There is not one, but two deltas here: the western delta, corresponding to present West Bengal in India and centred now on Kolkata, and the south-eastern delta, in present Bangladesh, centred on Dhaka, and running into Arakan. Not merely in terms of location, but on a historical axis too, the two deltas are vastly different as they have followed disparate trajectories, dictated in part by their geographies. Pelagic Passageways, therefore, questions the conventional fault line, located on the south-eastern Bengal delta, between the historiography of South and South-East Asia. Concentrating on commodity and currency flows, travel, trade, routes and interactive networks Pelagic Passageways visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bengal as embracing upland landlocked areas -- Ava, Yunnan, the Tripuri, Dimasa and Ahom states -- not usually seen as part of maritime history. This collection of essays suggests that they too were a part of the social and commercial networks of the Indian Ocean. While these countries literally fell off the map, this volume proposes that we see these areas instead as crossroads, mediating flows between the land-dwelling and aquatic worlds.

History and Memory

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015041863674

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Studies in representation of the past.

Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada

Author : James Opp,John C. Walsh
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774859622

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Placing Memory and Remembering Place in Canada by James Opp,John C. Walsh Pdf

Places are imagined, made, claimed, fought for and defended, and always in a state of becoming. This important book explores the historical and theoretical relationships among place, community, and public memory across differing chronologies and geographies within twentieth-century Canada. It is a collaborative work that shifts the focus from nation and empire to local places sitting at the intersection of public memory making and identity formation � main streets, city squares and village museums, internment camps, industrial wastelands, and the landscape itself. With a focus on the materiality of image, text, and artefact, the essays gathered here argue that every act of memory making is simultaneously an act of forgetting; every place memorialized is accompanied by places forgotten.