Theorizing social memories : concepts and contexts

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sebald, Gerd , 1966- (Author), Wagle, Jatin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , c2016
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Life world and trauma : selectivity of social memories
  • 2. The social construction of individual and collective memory
  • 3. The forms of the past: temporalities, types and memories
  • 4. Bringing the future back in : temporal registers and the media
  • 5. On the significance of the past for present and future action
  • 6. The heterogeneous time of the postcolonial: inverted memories of Hitler in India
  • 7. Memory as a means of social integration
  • 8. Social memory and the politics of remembering
  • 9. Exploring the dark side of social memory: towards a social theory of forgetting
  • 10. The forms of web-memory
  • 11. What is the context of memory?
  • 12. Memories engendered in diaspora: multivocal narratives of tamil refugee women