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Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies: An Interscalar Study of Memory and Morality
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Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies: An Interscalar Study of Memory and Morality
Van de Putte, Thomas
This book investigates the entanglement of memory and morality in an extended case study of the memory policy of the European Commission between 2014 and 2020. The main empirical aim is to provide an understanding of how the European Commission, various non-governmental intermediary institutions (including the Memory Studies Association and Euroclio) and, in the end, participants in policy projects, attribute meaning to the past and connect that past with specific norms and values.
The book queries how the European Commission turns more general cultural memories into concrete moral discourses in its memory policy; how these policies are institutionally operationalised; what draws these institutions to the European Commission’s memory policy; and what happens when individual citizens are exposed to the outcomes of those policy projects.Theoretically, Outsourcing the European Past integrates theories from cultural sociology, political science, cultural studies and sociolinguistics in an innovative theory of memory.
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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2025-03-01
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9783031541346
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54132-2
Dimensions: 210cm x148cm
Pages: 156