Collective Remembering and the Making of Political Culture
- 5h 54m
- James H. Liu
- Cambridge University Press
- 2022
Collective memory can make and break political culture around the world. Representations and reinterpretations of the past intersect with actions that shape the future. A nation's political culture emerges from complex layers of institutional and individual responses to historical events. Society changes and is changed by these layers of memory over time. Understanding them gives us insight into where we are today. Encompassing examples from colonization and decolonization, revolving around the critical junctures of the world wars, this book illustrates how collective memory is produced and organized, through commemoration, through monuments, and through individuals sharing stories. Using concrete examples from around the world, James H. Liu shows how different disciplines can come together through shared concepts like narratives and generational memories to provide mutually enriching perspectives on how political culture is made, and how it changes.
About the Author
James H. Liu is Professor of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. His research focuses on social, cross-cultural, and political psychology. He has been influential in the development of Asian social psychology, including an indigenous psychology of Confucianism, and he advocates for psychology as a human science.
In this Book
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Preface
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The Rise of Research on Collective Remembering
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Top-Down Approaches to Collective Remembering
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Bottom-Up Approaches to Collective Remembering
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The Organization of Collective Memory
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Social Representations of World History as a Symbolic Resource—Content Informs Process in Future Making
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Historiography and Human Agency—Collective Memory as History, and History in Collective Remembering
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A Dialectical Approach to Collective Remembering
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China and the United States of America—Going beyond the Thucydides Trap
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Colonization and Decolonization in Israel-Palestine and Aotearoa-New Zealand
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Reciprocal Relationship between Past, Present, and Future
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