Why Memory Matters - 'Remembered Histories' and the Politics of the Shared Past by Rowan Light

'Behind the foreground narratives of justification, real or symbolic wounds are stored in the archives of cultural memory.' From curriculum to commemoration to constitutional reform, our society is in the grip of memory, a politics and culture marked by waves of loss, grief, absence and victimhood. Why are certain aspects of the past remembered over others, and why does this matter? In response to this fraught question, historian Rowan Light offers a series of case studies about local debates about history in New Zealand. These provisional judgements of the past illuminate aspects of what it means to remember - and why it matters. This 2023 BWB Texts Paperback is brand new.

ISBN: 9781990046957 SKU: 1512518 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1512518
Location: BWB