Why memory matters : 'remembered histories' and the politics of the shared past / Rowan Light.

"From curriculum to commemoration to constitutional reform, our society is in the grip of memory, a politics and culture marked by waves of loss, grief, absence and victimhood. Why are certain aspects of the past remembered over others, and why does this matter? In response to this fraught ques...

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Main Author: Light, Rowan (Author)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2023.
Series:BWB texts
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505 0 |a Preface: Kia Tūpato, beware -- Introduction: why memory matters -- 1 Under the Maunga -- 2 ANZAC and us -- 3 Commemorating Cook -- 4 The historians' debate -- Conclusions: servants of memory. 
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