Journal Article10.1080/09528829908576823
Colonial/postcolonial intersections
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TL;DR: The Lieux de memoire as mentioned in this paper, a concept developed by historian Pierre Nora in order to help explain the construction of a nation or a community, offers a useful tool to architectural historians by emphasizing the importance of physical and conceptual sites.
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Abstract: Lieu de memoire , a concept developed by historian Pierre Nora in order to help explain the construction of a nation or a community, offers a useful tool to architectural historians by emphasizing the importance of physical and conceptual sites. Nora associates the role played by memory with a \"symbolic typology\" and identifies the sites where memory resides as lieux de memoire (the place, the site, the realm of memory). A lieu de memoire is thus \"any significant entity, whether material or non-material in nature, which, by dint of human will or the work of time, has become a symbolic element of the memorial heritage of any community.\"2 Pointing to the difference between history and memory, Nora claims that \"memory is life\" whereas \"history is the reconstruction ... of what is no longer.\" Memory is subject to remembering and forgetting; it is vulnerable to appropriation and manipulation; and, it can lie dormant for long periods only to be reawakened suddenly. The lieux de memoire , the material, symbolic, and functional sites, are the products of the interaction between memory and
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