1st Edition
The Politics and Rhetoric of Collective Remembering
Introduction – Discourses of collective remembering: contestation, politics, affect
Tommaso M. Milani and John E. Richardson
1. Genealogy and critical discourse analysis in conversation: texts, discourse, critique
Seantel Anaïs
2. Rhetoric, death, and the politics of memory
James Martin
3. Memory practices and colonial discourse: on text trajectories and lines of flight
Felicitas Macgilchrist, Johanna Ahlrichs, Patrick Mielke and Roman Richtera
4. A politics of reminding: Khoisan resurgence and environmental justice in South Africa’s Sarah Baartman District
Scott Burnett, Nettly Ahmed, Tahn-dee Matthews, Junaid Oliephant and Aylwyn M. Walsh
5. The place of Palestinians in tourist and Zionist discourses in the ‘City of David’, occupied East Jerusalem
David Landy
6. “A day that unites the nation”: contestation of history in national day discussions
Brianne Hastie, Martha Augoustinos and Kellie Elovalis
7. Manipulating information and manipulating people: examples from the 2004 Portuguese parliamentary celebration of the April revolution
Michael Billig and Cristina Marinho
8. Twenty-first century discourses of American lynching
Ersula J. Ore
9. Representing the (un)finished revolution in Belfast's political murals
Stephen Goulding and Amy McCroy
10. Memory, media, and museum audience’s discourse of remembering
Chaim Noy
11. Politics of memory, urban space, and the discourse of counterhegemonic commemoration: a discourse-ethnographic analysis of the ‘Living Memorial’ in Budapest’s 'Liberty Square'
Natalia Krzyżanowska
12. Responsibility for justice in action: commemoration, affect and politics at Il Memoriale della Shoah in Milan
Tommaso M. Milani and John E. Richardson
Biography
John E. Richardson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research interests include critical discourse studies, rhetoric and argumentation, British fascism and commemorative discourse. He is Editor of the international journal Critical Discourse Studies.
Tommaso M. Milani is George and Jane Greer Professor of Applied Linguistics, Jewish Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include critical discourse studies with a focus on space and time. He is Co-Editor of the international journal Language in Society.
