The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa /

Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg DeutschThe volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing var...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) (http://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/funder.)
Otros Autores: Andersen, Casper (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.), Charumbira, Ruramisai (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.), Filippi, Natacha (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.), Goodman, Edward (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.), Haji Ingiriis, Mohamed (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.), Kunstmann, Rouven (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.), Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor., Editor , http://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/editor.), Mihatsch, Moritz A. (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.), Mihatsch, Moritz (Editor , http://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/editor.), Sikes, Michelle M. (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.), Sikes, Michelle (Editor , http://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/editor.), Studer, Nina S. (Contribuidor, conservatortributor.,, https://id.loc.gov/vocalistabulary/relauthorographerrs/contributor.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]
Temas:
Memory > Political aspects > Africa.
Memory > Social aspects > Africa.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Memory > Political aspects
Memory > Social aspects
Africa
Africa.
collective memory.
historical remembrance.
memory politics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Public Memorialisation and the Politics of Historical Memory in Africa
  • I Struggles with Heritage & Historicity
  • Oral history, Closed Settings and the Formation of Narratives: A South African Example
  • A "Quest for Relevance": The Memory Politics of UNESCO's General History of Africa
  • II Political Commemoration & Memory
  • Remembering Mzee: The Making and Re-making of "Kenyatta Day," 1958-2010
  • Southern Somalia's "Glorious Days Are Our Nightmare": The Performance of Political Memory and Contestations of Commemoration in Northern Somalia (Somaliland)
  • III Nostalgia
  • between Social Connection & Social Ordering
  • The Memory Process in the Commemorations of the Dead in West African Newspapers
  • Remembrance of Drinks Past: Wine and Absinthe in Nineteenth-century French Algeria
  • Epilogue
  • The Historian as Memory Practitioner
  • Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of names
  • Index of places

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