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Dissonant heritages and memories in contemporary Europe
This open access book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same ti…
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- 1
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- 9783030114640
- Collation
- xv, 294p.; ill.
- Series Title
- Palgrave studies in cultural heritage and conflict
- Call Number
- 363.69 DIS v
Corporate memory : records and information management in the knowledge age
Corporate memory' is the body of information that an organization needs to keep for re-use. It is the active and historical information that an organization has that is worth sharing, managing and preserving to enable it to function effectively. This book is aimed at records managers and archivists, who are responsible for maintaining and managing information within an organization. It describe…
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- 32
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783598440113
- Collation
- xi, 156 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.4038 KEN c
Flowers in the Wall : Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and…
What is the experience of truth and reconciliation? What is the purpose of a truth commission? What lessons can be learned from established truth and reconciliation processes? Flowers in the Wall explores the experience of truth and reconciliation Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, with and without a formal truth commission. Although much has been written about the operational phases of …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781552389553
- Collation
- xvi, 360p : ill.
- Series Title
- Global Indigenous Issues
- Call Number
- 323.49 FLO f
Critical perspectives on cultural memory and heritage : construction, transfo…
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural h…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787354845
- Collation
- xviii, 313 p. ill;
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- -
- Call Number
- 302 CRI V
Education for Sustaining Peace through Historical Memory
‘This is a necessary exercise in deconstruction and reconstruction that challenges conventional and critical approaches to peace education. Schultze-Kraft’s new book is an impressive piece of synthesis, a personal manifesto married to a rigorous interrogation of the theoretical literature. It pushes boundaries enhancing the sustaining peace agenda. As such it deserves the critical attention…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030936549
- Collation
- xi; 119; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 327.1 EDU M
YOUTH AND MEMORY IN EUROPE : defining the past, shaping the future
What kind of historical narratives are young people exposed to and what do they make of them? This volume brings together humanities and social sciences scholars in a study of youth and memory in different European regions. It explores the connections between the historical narratives expressed by young people and the broader, multifaceted historical narratives mediated by their cultures.
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110733501
- Collation
- xv, 390p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 940.072 YOU k
War Remains; Mediations Of Suffering And Death In The Era Of The World Wars
War Remains is an interdisciplinary anthology dealing with the mediations and sense-making narratives of war deaths and suffering in the era of the world wars. In the first half of the 20th century, more than 120 million people died an untimely or violent death – on the battlefield, in concentration camps, through fierce air strikes or as casualties of the many epidemics and hardships that fo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789187675818
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- -
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- -
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- -
Mnemonic solidarity : global interventions
This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in different parts of the world, often articulated in the terms established by Holocaust memory, have become entangled, reconciled, contested, conflicted and negotiated across borders. As historical act…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030576691
- Collation
- xi, 135p, : ill
- Series Title
- Entangled Memories in the Global South
- Call Number
- 306.09 JIE m
Borderlands between history and memory : latgale's palimpsestuous past in con…
This book offers innovative perspectives on the intersections between history and memory in Central and Eastern European borderlands. It focuses on the case of Latgale, the multicultural region of eastern Latvia which borders Russia, Belarus and Lithuania, and explores the multiple layers of memories and historical narratives about this borderland in Latvian public history. Based on a detailed …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789949772964
- Collation
- 192 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 504.9.L37 CAT b
Improving working memory in learning and intellectual disabilities
The last forty years of research have demonstrated that working memory (WM) is a key concept for understanding higher-order cognition. To give an example, WM is involved in reading comprehension, problem solving and reasoning, but also in a number of everyday life activities. It has a clear role in the case of atypical development too. For instance, numerous studies have shown an impairment in …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9782889198979
- Collation
- 158p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370.15 IMP i
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