Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own.
| ISBN: | 9781137290168 |
| Publication date: | 17th October 2014 |
| Author: | Margarita Saona |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 159 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies |
| Genres: |
Historiography Cultural studies Media studies Sociology: family and relationships Sociology |