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cultural memory

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Cultural memory is a field of academic inquiry and a theoretical concept exploring how social groups construct, transmit, and negotiate their shared pasts. It investigates the dynamic processes through which collective identities are formed and maintained through mediated forms such as narratives, symbols, rituals, and material culture, highlighting its selective, constructed, and often contested nature. Its significance lies in understanding the complex relationship between memory, history, identity, and power within societies, and how the past is utilized in the present to shape group cohesion and navigate social change.

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Cornell University

DB

Aarhus University

AE

Goethe University Frankfurt

AR

Utrecht University

RF

Emory University

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Cornell University

Ithaca, United States

Aarhus University

Aarhus, Denmark

Durham University

Durham, United Kingdom

University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

Goethe University Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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