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National Myths and Collective Memory in a Transnational Age

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Researchers within the field of human or social sciences have always dealt with memory issues; but the events and changes of the last decades have influenced the meanings and uses of collective or individual memories to an extreme extent. The acceleration of communication, information and migration or new gender perspectives, combined with the fragility of the globalization process and all its social, political and ideological consequences, have opened memory issues to new questions, both in terms of empi rical as well as theoretical and methodological approaches. The aim of this network is to provide comparative discussions and analyses of the contemporary role of memory in the construction and deconstruction of collective myths in national communities in the age of globalisation. The main theme at the heart of this project can be formulated as follows: How do national canons and myths survive; how are they silenced or how are they deconstructed; and how is knowledge about the past transmitted and challen ged in an age of globalisation? The essential element of a nation is that all its individuals must have many things in common, they must also have forgotten many things (Renan 1882). This affirmation is challenged today by the fact that access to knowled ge and discussions about the past is much more open and complex, simultaneously challenging the connection between the establishment of a collective memory and the construction and de-construction of collective myths and perceptions of well-established g roups or communities.

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