The Politics and Rhetoric of Collective Remembering

This book critically examines the ways that collective pasts are commemorated and contested in a wide variety of national locations, media and genres.

Collective remembering is a dynamic process, through which narratives about the past, about ‘us’ and ‘them’ as well as beliefs, values and affective conditions contained in these stories, are produced and reproduced. This facilitates room for not only the creation of unity but also the potential for contestation and conflict, given that differ...