Imagining the city : memories and cultures in Cape Town, Sean Field, Renate Meyer and Felicity Swanson (Eds.) : book reviews

The proliferation of memorials, monuments and a preoccupation with anniversaries has stimulated scholarly interest in the role of memory in society. This 'memory turn' was propelled by the (re)discovery of the work of French social theorists such as Maurice Halbwachs on collective memory,...

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