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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"memory institutions."”.
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Using object biography metadata to create artefact interactions outside memory institutions
… environment beyond the physical boundaries of memory institutions. To achieve these interactions, one approach is to modify metadata from a typical descriptive catalogue entry to be object biography-centric. This thesis explores this opportunity and presents the creation of novel …
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Archiving the Games: collecting, storing and disseminating the London 2012 knowledge legacy
… made by the British Library (BL) and other memory institutions in the UK to archive the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It has a specific focus on the intersections between collecting, storing and disseminating the Games’ knowledge legacy. The thesis makes an original contribution …
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Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw
… Poland since 1989 have become lands of contested memory, as reflected by their attempts to commemorate the series of reforms that led to the end of their Communist regimes. This study is an attempt to analyze the various modes of commemoration dedicated to the transition from communism that have …
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Carefully hidden away: excavating the archive of the Mapungubwe dead and their possessions
… an archive? What do museums, archives and other memory institutions hide and what do they reveal? What gets acknowledged as archive and what is disregarded? How is this knowledge presented in the public domain over time? Lastly, what happens when the archive is construed differently? My …
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Revisiting the Past : Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation
… identifies inside actors, here understood as memory-agents forwarding different view of history, as crucial in the process of transforming conflictual relations. The disseratation hence challenges the traditional focus on third party interventions and elite negotations within conflict teory, …