| Summary/Abstract |
THE POLITICS OF MEMORY is a necessary and very important tool used in shaping statehood, consolidating society around a set of state-forming ideas and interpretations. In practice, these are activities by the state and other interested parties to manipulate social groups by adjusting or changing their values and their images of the past. The symbols that are employed to this end are signs that are clear and easily recognizable within social subgroups, and that embody certain values/qualities, standards of behavior, or goals.
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