Memory and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230301991 ISBN 13: 9780230301993

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Synopsis

Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions.

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NUTSA BATIASHVILI Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Washington University, St Louis, USA GUDRUN BROCKHAUS Social-Psychologist in Munich, Germany SUSANNE BUCKLEY-ZISTEL Professor for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany ANGELA GUTCHESS Assistant Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University, USA MONIKA REIF-HUELSER Held Guest Professorships in Guelph, Canada, Toronto, Canada, and Shanghai, China, and has acted as Associate Professor in Iasi, Romania GABRIELE SCHWAB Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, USA ANJA SCHWARZ Junior Professor for British Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany MAYA SIEGEL Ph.D. Graduate from the Psychology Department at Brandeis University, USA BRIGITTE WEIFFEN Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany JAMES V. WERTSCH Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor at Washington University, St. Louis, USA JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230301991
• ISBN 13: 9780230301993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 241
• Editor: Assmann A., Shortt L.