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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Individual and Collective Memory"”.
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Land, sea, and sky : environmental histories and planning conflicts in East Boston
Places are steeped in individual and collective memory. Places and their features become symbols which joy, grief, belonging and change: a beautiful park is a bitterly fought victory, a dilapidated playground a symbol of neglect, a looming condominium complex a represented betrayal. In reality, …
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Shakespeare and the Earl of Warwick: the kingmaker in the Henry VI trilogy
… from the regal history of late medieval England substantially maintains our interest in historical figures such as Warwick. By a process of dramatic and literary osmosis, Shakespeare infiltrates the national consciousness with such figures, refreshing individual and collective memory. The …
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Utopia in performance: re-imagining a coloured identity narrative
… offers critically generative ways of addressing and contesting the politics and meanings of colouredness in post-apartheid South Africa. This study explores the politics of naming in so far as its impact both from an intrinsic and extrinsic perspective in relation to a personal identity …
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Exploding the edge : inversions into the urban landscape
… explores the relationship between building and green space in a dense urban environment in order to create a humane contemplative experience of individual and collective memory. The urban environment has the potential to inform a new attitude for open space which incorporates the building as …
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Drifting in the Dead Zone in Cyprus: the mediation of memory through expanded life writing
… in Cyprus, was divided by a ‘green line’ in 1964 and remains the last divided capital city in Europe. This thesis deploys poesis and performance to interrogate the border as a site of reminiscence at the intersection of multiple and contested collective memory-narratives. In order to explore the …
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Transnational identity, historical entanglements and the living archive: between Medu & me
… shall be opened is an audio-visual exhibition and self-reflexive research project that unpacks transnational identity, historical entanglements, and the living archive, through Medu Art Ensemble as the case in point. The project expands on the relationship ‘between Medu and Me', as a method of …
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16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature
16 October 1943. History, Memory, Literature The thesis considers the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy during the German occupation of 1943-45, which took place in Rome on 16 October 1943. It examines Italian cultural memory of the Roman round-up through the perspective of …
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Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth-Century Denmark C.C.Thomson, University of Edinburgh, 2003 This thesis centres on the contemporary Danish novel as a conduit for national imagining. Chapter one begins with a discussion of Benedict Anderson's account of the ability …
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Talking stones : the politics of memorialisation in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… the key developments, figures, academic works and trends in the conceptual fields of collective/social memory and the politics of memory. Here, I also discuss methods and ethical issues related to my research. Chapter 3 sets the historical background of my study, delineating the history of the …
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Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives
… deutsche Jugend, Jana Simon's Denn wir sind anders, and Robert Ide's Geteilte Träume. The depiction of childhood memories is moreover contextualized in the radical social, political and economic changes after the Wende and their effects on former East Germans as individuals and as a group. …
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Mapping and Memory in Banja Luka
… & identity. People draw maps in order to understand the city in which they live.<br/><br/>The research presented in this thesis is in two parts:<br/><br/>- Collecting and indexing all the maps of Banja Luka, beginning with the first maps of Banja Luka from the Ottoman times. These maps are …
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Exiled nostalgia and musical remembrance: songs of grief, joy, and tragedy among Iraqi Jews
… of amateur Iraqi Jewish singers in Israel. These individuals are among those who abruptly emigrated from Iraq to Israel in the mid twentieth century, and share formative experiences of cultural displacement and trauma. Their songs are in a mixture of colloquial Iraqi dialects of Arabic, set to …