When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and et

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in Georg

War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes

Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevit

An extraordinary book that explores the art, architecture, and design of memorials around the world from the late twentieth century to today - an important book