Why Memory Matters : Remembered histories and the Politics of the Past
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Author:LIGHT Rowan
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ISBN:9781990046957
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Publication Date:September 2023
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Pages:
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Bridget Williams Books
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Why Memory Matters : Remembered histories and the Politics of the Past
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Author:LIGHT Rowan
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ISBN:9781990046957
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Publication Date:September 2023
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Pages:
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Bridget Williams Books
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Country of Publication:
Description
From curriculum to commemoration to constitutional reform, oursociety is in the grip of memory, a politics and culture marked by wavesof loss, grief, absence and victimhood. Why are certain aspects of the pastremembered over others, and why does this matter? In response to thisfraught question, historian Rowan Light offers a series of case studiesabout local debates about history in New Zealand. These provisionaljudgements of the past illuminate aspects of what it means to remember and why it matters.
Dr Rowan Light is an historian and curator at the Auckland WarMemorial Museum and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, History, atthe University of Auckland. He specialises in the public use of history,memory, and commemoration, specifically as it relates to war and violence.His writing on these subjects has been recognised with awards, includingthe Ken Inglis Postgraduate History Prize and the Keith Sinclair MemorialScholarship.
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From curriculum to commemoration to constitutional reform, oursociety is in the grip of memory, a politics and culture marked by wavesof loss, grief, absence and victimhood. Why are certain aspects of the pastremembered over others, and why does this matter? In response to thisfraught question, historian Rowan Light offers a series of case studiesabout local debates about history in New Zealand. These provisionaljudgements of the past illuminate aspects of what it means to remember and why it matters.
Dr Rowan Light is an historian and curator at the Auckland WarMemorial Museum and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts, History, atthe University of Auckland. He specialises in the public use of history,memory, and commemoration, specifically as it relates to war and violence.His writing on these subjects has been recognised with awards, includingthe Ken Inglis Postgraduate History Prize and the Keith Sinclair MemorialScholarship.