"memory politics" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the way in which a country or community remembers or chooses not to remember certain events from its past. For example, "The government's approach to memory politics was to focus on celebrating notable victories from the country's history while overlooking darker moments."
It brings together scholars in social science, neuroscience, and curators of historical museums from the US, Europe, East and South Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America to identify the commonalities and connections in contemporary memory politics and to develop appropriate and politically practical ways of dealing with national and social pasts, however dark or difficult.
The goal is twofold: to produce a more sophisticated analysis of the processes of memory politics and to generate specific proposals for better political management of the divisive memories within and between countries.
Earlier in the year, regional leader Bjorn Hocke called for a "180 degree turnaround in our memory politics" and referred to Berlin's Holocaust memorial as a "monument to shame". .
After German unification, the task of commemorating and compensating these victims continued under entirely new political circumstances, yet also in the context of global trends in memory politics and transitional justice that give priority to addressing the fate of victims of non-democratic regimes.
At the same time, it probes the limits of comparative and connective approaches to memory politics.
At the same time, it will probe the limits of comparative and connective approaches to memory politics.
There's a scene in which they attend their 50th reunion at the college in 2009, but mostly we just see them sitting at a table — or standing around Nathan's Famous in Coney Island — talking about memories, politics, culture and friendship.
Forty years later, the deceived husband, a former Austrian general, confronts his rival and former friend on the general's Hungarian estate, where the men pass the night chewing over memories, politics and the wearying effects of time on the human heart.
In Written in Stone Sanford Levinson considers the tangled responses to controversial monuments and commemorations while examining how those with political power configure public spaces in ways that shape public memory and politics.
The connection between memory and politics should be made clear to all.
His research focuses on contemporary literature and the arts as they touch on memory, history, politics, and ethics.
