LEGAL 392T Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collective Memory, Imagined Communities
15 Feb 2017
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Zalaquett review: telling us what we should care about . Policy should repair harm done: must have full cognizance of human rights abuses, governments should have wide latitude within these constraints. Memory is social and is going to evolve. Or does the study of social memory demonstrate the uselessness of the sort of distinction? . Has been used to refer to aggregated individual recollection, to official commemorations, to collective representations and to disembodied constitutive features of shared identities - jeffrey olick. Memory lies within individuals, commemorative objects don"t have a life of their own. Benefit: do not have to generalize about people: collective. Story that lives apart from our individual experience. Structural, influenced by culture and social lives. Need for collective memory: text write authors. Importance: constitutive narratives , genuine communities as communities of memory , which communities reflect which memories, point: this is why truth commissions are so important.
