The Future of the Mnemonic Turn.
Observing the efflorescence of scholarly and public discourse about memory and commemoration since about the 1970s, historians and others have expressed concerns about "the memory boom" and "the memory industry." Referring instead, and less negatively, to "the mnemonic turn," this article responds t...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 781 - 808 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Winter2023
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