Talking Stones

Talking StonesIf memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves. This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary

Section Two focuses on what and how students are taught

The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally

the place of humans in nature

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the liberal tradition

This collection invites readers to re-see Niagara through these lenses

and court cultures

How Close Reading Made Us shows that close reading

This chapter describes existing cowpea programs and past challenges

and draws on philosophical and empirical scholarship to demonstrate the challenges of multicultural integration and the impact of both on the potential for progressive social transformation

where it is the major pest and the most difficult to control

Head in the game critically analyses the global concussion crisis in sport from sociocultural perspectives