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Introduction: Memory Between Lieu and Milieu

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The Social Life of Memory

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In making a claim for “the social life of memory,” Nikro and Hegasy offer a dynamic approach to the particular research field of social memory-studies. In their introduction they emphasize how recent revolutionary and protest activities in Lebanon and Morocco bear comparative rifts in their respective postcolonial histories. Nikro and Hegasy argue that in the wake of the Arab Spring, seismic shifts have emerged along the seams of history and memory, so that the past has become a more open, proliferating field of inquiry. Discussing Pierre Nora’s notion of lieux de mémoire, they rework his accompanying notion of “between history and memory,” to focus on how people engage the nexus of personal and public memory as emerging modalities of social production.

The original version of this chapter was revised: Missed out author corrections have been incorporated. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66622-8_10

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    Norman Saadi Nikro & Sonja Hegasy

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Nikro, N.S., Hegasy, S. (2017). Introduction: Memory Between Lieu and Milieu. In: Nikro, N., Hegasy, S. (eds) The Social Life of Memory. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66622-8_1

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