Talking Stones
The politics of memorialization in post-conflit Northern Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8095615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabetta Viggiani (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 265 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Talking stones (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/9781782384076 |
| OpenAlex | W4396986017 |
| ISBN | 9781782384076 |
| Open Library | OL31020405M |
| Google Books | 0ImRngEACAAJ |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: “Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves.” This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence
Geography · Irish and British Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Military, Security, and Education Studies · 1994 · 20th century · Collective memory · History · Kollektives Gedächtnis · Memorialization · Nordirlandkonflikt · northern ireland · Political aspects · Political violence · politics and government
Restricted Access to Remembrance
Northern Ireland’s 1968 at 50
Poppies, Para flags and the NHS
In the hands of the UN”
Naming and framing victims
Our Whole History has been Ruined!’ The 1981 Hunger Strike and the Politics of Republican Commemoration and Memory
Speaking for the dead
Overcoming the Troubles in Westeros
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |