Name: The Struggle for the Past: How we Construct Social Memories (Worlds of Memory, 6)
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Author: Elizabeth Jelin
ISBN: 9781789207828

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Elizabeth Jelin

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781789207828

Synopsis "The Struggle for the Past: How we Construct Social Memories (Worlds of Memory, 6)"

In all societies―but especially those that have endured political violence―the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around the Argentine experience since the 1970s within the broader context of the Southern Cone and international developments, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization, it gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field of inquiry, lucidly recounting the author’s own intellectual and personal journey during these decades.