Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage
Author :
Publisher : UCL Press
Total Pages : 335
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781787354845
ISBN-13 : 1787354849
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage by : Veysel Apaydin i

Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage written by Veysel Apaydin i and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.


Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage Related Books

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Veysel Apaydin i
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: UCL Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of
Present Pasts
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Andreas Huyssen
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major
Genocide and the Politics of Memory
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Herbert Hirsch
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

More than sixty million people have been victims of genocide in the twentieth century alone, including recent casualties in Bosnia and Rwanda. Herbert Hirsch st
The Politics of Regret
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Jeffrey K. Olick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-31 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world’s pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociol
Recovering the Nation's Body
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Linda F. Hogle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This text analyzes the practices involved in procuring human tissue, and examines how the German past and present-day situation within the European Union are ke