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  • Memory and the Management of Change

    Repossessing the Past

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and turning points, it covers key issues of identity for the remembering subject and key scales of remembering in vernacular milieus. The book explores the connections of memory and remembering with ... Read more

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  • Partition and the South Asian Diaspora

    Exploring (Inherited) Memories and Creative Practices of Remembering

    Conceived at the unique, intersecting moment of commemoration of 1947 Partition of British India, 1971 Bangladesh independence, and 1972 exodus from Uganda, this book focuses on the entangled memories of Partition and its associated events in the diaspora. The chapters in this book explore the cultural and social significance of diasporic memorialisation done in reference to Partition, as it ... Read more

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  • Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media

    Mobilising Mediated Remembrance

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations ... Read more

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  • Photography, Music and Memory

    Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores how photography and recorded music act as vehicles or catalysts in processes of remembering, and how they are regarded, treated, valued and drawn upon as resources connecting past and present in everyday life. It does so via two key concepts: vernacular memory and the mnemonic imagination. ... Read more

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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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    Forced Migration and Its Reverberations

    The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in the recorded human history. Despite the passage of time, it is still widely seen as a process of singular distress and sorrow. Yet, for those in the subcontinent, the Partition also offers a process of self-exploration for subsequent generations. This book is the first collection of chapters related to the ... Read more

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