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Vilnius memoryscape: razing and raising of monuments, collective memory and national identity
Moore, Irina
Moore, Irina
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2019-11-12
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This article attempts to analyse collective memory formation (the study of monuments, memory, and public space) through the lens of semiotic landscape. A theoretical focus on power relations in “monumental politics” (Czepczyński, 2008; Forest, Johnson & Till, 2004; Gordon, 2001; Kaufman, 2001), the concept of memoryscape (Clack, 2011) and Van Gennep’s sociological concept of liminality (Van Gennep, A., 2004) and a methodological approach that “treats space as a discursive as well as physical formation” (Jaworski, A., Thurlow, C., 2010) are combined to examine the process of monument destruction, creation, and alteration in post-Soviet Vilnius.
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Moore, I. (2019) Vilnius memoryscape: razing and raising of monuments, collective memory and national identity, Linguistic Landscape, 5(3), pp. 248–281.
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2214-9953