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Duty of Memory

Sébastien Ledoux
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Cultural Studies (General)
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Heritage Studies
History: 20th Century to Present

Product details

  • ISBN 9781836950417
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Within France, the expression “duty of memory” (devoir de mémoire) speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. Emerging in the 1970s, this term raised questions about memorialization which dominated public debates in the 1990s, highlighting France’s entanglements with colonialism and the Holocaust. Drawing on a variety of interviews, archival sources, and data surveys, author Sébastien Ledoux spotlights how the trajectory of this term offers a lens for understanding contemporary societies’ relationship with the past on a global scale.
About Sebastien Ledoux

Sébastien Ledoux is a historian and senior lecturer at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. His work focuses on the political, social, and cultural aspects of memory in contemporary societies. He is the author of several books: Le devoir de mémoire (CNRS Editions, 2016), La nation en récit (Belin Editeur, 2021), and Histoire et mémoires (CNRS Editions, 2024). In addition to this, he has edited several collected works on a variety of topics, including digital memories, memory laws, teaching, and colonial memories.

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