Course Details
Country:
Thailand
Institution:
Mahidol University International College
Course Title:
Politics of Memory in Asia
Course Number:
ICIR 333
Course Description:
This course critically examines how and why social actors use the past to act in the present and the future. It introduces major approaches to the study of history, memory and identity and applies those ideas to distinct case studies in the Asian region. How do societies remember their past? How is the past intertwined with political and social processes of the present? How do nation-states, ethnic groups and other communities remember their past to form their identities? In what ways do contested memories of the past underlie conflicts of the present? How do physical and tangible things such as monuments, museums and landscapes represent and transmit memories of the past? By analyzing how individual and collectives memories have been forged through narratives, landscapes, institutions, and popular culture, students will critically assess the mobilization of memory as politics in the Asian region and evaluate major concepts of memory in their...
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HIST L387
Attachment Files:
ICIR_333.pdf
