The power of memory in democratic politics /

The phrase "politics of memory" refers to the ways expressions of political power shape what is available to be remembered, the spaces in which public memory takes shape, who is allowed to recall the past, and the practices, occasions, and timing of remembering and forgetting. The Power of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brendese, Philip J., 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
Temas:
Memory > Political aspects.
Memory > Social aspects.
Political sociology.
Democracy > Philosophy.
Politics and culture.
Sociologie politique.
Politique et culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Democracy > Philosophy
Memory > Political aspects
Memory > Social aspects
Political sociology
Politics and culture
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : coming to terms with memory
  • The tragedy of memory : Antigone, memory, and the politics of possibility
  • Remembering to forget : democratizing memory, Nietzschean forgetting, and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • Introducing segregated memory and segregated democracy in America
  • Remembering what others cannot be expected to forget : James Baldwin and segregated memory
  • Making silence speak : Toni Morrison and the Beloved community of memory
  • In memory of democratic time : specters of Mexico's past and democracy's future
  • The future of the past : unholy ghosts and redemptive possibilities
  • Imprisoned by the past : the complexion of mass incarceration.

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