Collective Memory as Currency: The Dominance of the Past in the Present - Hardcover
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Collective Memory as Currency: The Dominance of the Past in the Present
Why is the past so dominant in the present? This book conceptualizes collective memory as currency, a medium of exchange, a system in common use, and one that is traded between and within nations. Bringing together contemporary case studies and multidisciplinary scholarship, this volume shows how past events are used and perceived as a commodity and a substantially fungible marketable item...
Tracy Adams, PhD, is a research affiliate at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. Her research interests include the intersection of memory, conflict, culture and politics and how meaning is constructed through interactive processes of negotiation. As a cultural and political sociologist, she builds theory through rich qualitative case studies, using memory studies as a framework...
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