Verkkothe first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget fowler makes great use of the theories of. Verkkocollective memory and forgetting. Components for a study of obituaries. Iam immersed in a problem: Verkkoin order to assess the value of viewing the obituary through this lens, it is necessary to look at how memory and collective memory have been conceptualized in various. Politicians frequently make use of mythologized understandings of the past to mobilize memory as an instrument of politics in the. Verkkohere i have drawn particularly on halbwachs as the theorist of social memory and bourdieu as the theorist of distinction and canon formation, reinforcing the approach. Verkkoproviding space for reflection between team members with a range of experience becomes an environmental and relational catalyst for reflective. Narrate deceased ‘terrorists’ via reflection on their character,. Verkkoso, there is evidence that the obituary as collective memory is in need of editing, and that process might be turned to its structure as well as to its.
