Memory and Political Change

While political systems may change comparatively quickly, the social and cultural processes of adaptation and transformation take considerably longer. This volume explores memory as both a medium of and an impediment to change, offering an inroad into the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures. Written by authors from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, the essays chart the terrain and supply well-documented case studies to extend knowledge on the relationship between social and political memory and the transition process.

Author: A. Assmann
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/08/2011
Pages: 223
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230302006

About the Author
NUTSA BATIASHVILI Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Washington University, St Louis, USA GUDRUN BROCKHAUS Social-Psychologist in Munich, Germany SUSANNE BUCKLEY-ZISTEL Professor for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany ANGELA GUTCHESS Assistant Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University, USA MONIKA REIF-HUELSER Held Guest Professorships in Guelph, Canada, Toronto, Canada, and Shanghai, China, and has acted as Associate Professor in Iasi, Romania GABRIELE SCHWAB Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, USA ANJA SCHWARZ Junior Professor for British Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany MAYA SIEGEL Ph.D. Graduate from the Psychology Department at Brandeis University, USA BRIGITTE WEIFFEN Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany JAMES V. WERTSCH Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor at Washington University, St. Louis, USA JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, USA.