Créer contre l’oubli ou la censure de la mémoire uruguayenne by Dorothée Chouitem

“…How did the murga, through its government-subsidized entertainment productions, contravene a legal framework whose main objective was to dilute the Uruguayan collective memory and promote silence ?…”
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Tales Of Possession And Dispossession by Elsa Charléty

“…A polyphonic aesthetic of absence emerges from these exchanges to transform individual pain into collective memory.…”
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Mémoire et consanguinité: Les origines de l'identité spanish-american au Nouveau-Mexique by John Nieto-Phillips, Corinne Datchi-Phillips

“…New-Mexicans responded by proclaiming their "white" racial character. From their collective memory of the Spanish conquest, they fashioned a civic identity that wasat onceracially white, "Spanish" in culture and language, and "American" in citizenship and national loyalty.…”
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Le Front populaire dans les récits historiques pour la jeunesse by Patricia Richard-Principalli

“…This relative discretion in the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Popular Front is thus a weak memory transmission, which this study seeks to observe how it is reflected in the construction of the privileged collective memory that constitutes the youth literature. …”
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Manifestation du 17 octobre 1961 à Paris, L’oubli pour mémoire collective d’une violente répression policière by Julien Buzenet

“…By addressing contextually the different elements involved in this lack of history, it exposes the censorship, amnesty, amnesia, silence and official or media discourses as limits to the social frameworks of the collective memory of this event and the violence it generated. …”
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Lizori: Segni e Dialoghi by Michela Meschini, Chiara Mommi

“…Focusing on Lizori, a medieval Umbrian burg located in the municipality of Campello sul Clitunno in the province of Perugia, the exhibition explores the possibilities of restoring and enhancing historical and cultural roots, reflecting on the deep bond that links architecture to the landscape and collective memory. The burg of Lizori, with cobbled streets, stone houses, and perimeter walls that preserve its ancient defensive character, becomes a symbol of a heritage that is capable of speaking to both the present and the future with a vibrant, layered cultural identity. …”
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Historia y memorias de la posguerra. Paracuellos y el recuerdo del Auxilio Social by Ángela Cenarro, Elena Masarah

“…Likewise, since its publication in 1977, it has favoured the inclusion of experiences marginalized by the dominant accounts in the collective memory of the Civil War and the post-war period.…”
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The ANC and its use of history to build its brand by Ronald Irwin

“…The party has specialised in associating itself with the “collective memory” of the South African people, ensuring that the ANC has been strongly associated with the South African struggle narrative of the twentieth century. …”
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Former le politique, créer des références paysagères citoyennes by Caroline Guittet, Nolwenn Invernizzi

“…Based on three case studies in Brittany, the article shows that visual landscape representations in the collective memory, in public policies, and in landscape projects are inherited from the processes of landscape architecture of the late 19th century. …”
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Forms of coerced forgetting as a function of identity change in Kosovo and Metohija by Vučković Branislava B.

“…Nowadays, the power relations in Kosovo and Metohija have placed the Serbian community in a marginalized position, and this is exactly the type of social groups whose memory, as opposed to the official one and as an expression of the desire to preserve one's own identity in a hostile environment, was the subject of research that constituted the culture of remembrance as a discipline. Collective memory is constituted in the dialectic of remembering and forgetting. …”
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Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War by Thomas Constantinesco

“…Their representation in the periodical press, as well as in personal and literary accounts, archives the destructiveness of the war even as it shapes its collective memory. While the ashes of Columbia became a climactic episode in the narrative of the Lost Cause, the burning of New York City indexed the problematic memorialization of antistate and anti-Black violence.…”
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Francisco Ferrer, une figure inspirante pour les mouvements de rénovation pédagogique de la transition démocratique espagnole ? (1975-1978) by Cécile Morzadec

“…This article sets out to examine the place of the figure of Francisco Ferrer y Guardia, and his model of the Modern School, in Spain's collective memory at the time of Franco's death in 1975, by combining textual analysis and unpublished oral interviews. …”
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Avatars de Napalm Girl, June 8, 1972 (Nick Ut) : variations autour d’une icône de la Guerre du Vietnam by Anne LESME

“…Since it was published, this image has stood for the trauma of the Vietnam War and its lasting effects on the American collective memory. The symbolic crucifixion of the naked child is all the more powerful as the spectator, in this decisive moment, is facing horror and is invited to act. …”
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La identidad nacional ecuatoriana entre límites externos y internos by Chiara Pagnotta

“…In the Ecuadorian process of national identity building, history undertakes the task of regulating (collective) memory and oblivion in order to value the community’s distinctive traits and to differentiate it from other nations, specifically from Peru. …”
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Carved in stone by Ana Catarina Basílio

“…Ultimately, this study examines these agglomerations as ideological tools that reshaped collective memory during the transition between the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age, shedding light on the more intangible behaviours of past communities. …”
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Remembering the Atomic Bomb in its Birthplace, New Mexico by Lucie Genay

“…The Trinity date does not hold the same place in collective memory as Hiroshima and Nagasaki but its historical significance takes various shapes on different memory scales. …”
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La fonction mnémonique des cartes à jouer illustrées : Le rôle de la mémoire dans la réception et la diffusion des idées whig à travers le jeu de cartes The Meal Tub Plot (c. 1681)... by Sophie Lambea

“…However, understanding the meaning of these illustrated playing cards is difficult for today’s reader/observer, as Francis Barlow based the narrative of his illustrations on the memory of events that took place at the end of the seventeenth century and knowledge of the historical and cultural context is necessary to fully understand the satirical scope of the playing cards.Besides, The Meal Tub Plot playing cards were not only intended to entertain, but also to help shape public opinion and the collective memory of the English people, thereby facilitating the accession of William of Orange to the throne in 1689.…”
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The Contemporary Museum as a Site for Displaying Values by Mare Kõiva

“…In contemporary society the institution serves many important roles, being a place for displaying historical and contemporary values, an institution for preserving and displaying personal and collective memory, cultural values, for collecting tangible and intangible values, an institution for creating identity and ethnic kudos, a work place, an educational environment, a framework for promoting ethnic handicraft and art, a place for integrating different folklore festivals, exhibitions, shows; they are connected to tourism patterns and museum business. …”
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La Révolte de Bû Ziyân en Algérie, 1849 by Julia Clancy-Smith

“…And finally, what does this revolt in a small oasis reveal about collective memory - about the intersections between oral culture/traditions, rumors and written texts concerning the advent of the mahdi ? …”
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“Conmemoracciones” : Memoria y Memorialización de los Niños Vascos Refugiados de la Guerra Civil Española en el Reino Unido by Susana Sabín Fernández

“…I wish to problematize in particular the extent to which ’memory brokers’ contribute to the memory-fever of today’s world, and to evaluate the transformative impact of their actions on the collective memory of this group. I will also consider the labels which have been given to these people, and the consequences of the creation of a form of discourse which is linked to the recuperation of historical memory in Spain.…”
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