The Labour of Memory
Memorial Culture and 7/7
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Word Count
40,000 words, Guess
Page Count
160 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL30518876M
- ISBN-139781137341631
- ISBN-101137341637
- OCLC Control Number881655898
- Library of Congress Control Number2014025132
Classifications
- LCCHM623P87-P96HM716-75
- LCCHV6433.G713 L65185 2015
Description
The Labour of Memory presents empirical research on memorial culture and the 2005 London bombings. The study proceeds with the view that remembrance involves work. This shifts the focus from established topics in memory studies to less explored aspects of remembrance including experience and organisation. Matthew Allen undertakes close readings of extracts from interviews with organisers and participants of 7/7 memorial culture. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Giles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt, he considers how issues of autonomy, subjectivity and affect shape practices of remembrance. Allen examines cosmological and embodied possibilities of memorial culture and finds that remembrance provides cosmopolitan opportunities for working upon and caring for the soul.
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