Talking stones : the politics of memorialization in post-conflict Northern Ireland /
If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: "Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves." This book examines how collective memory...
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2014
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