This important sum of publications, released between 19, explores the presence of history in the everyday sphere: whether it concerns street names, patrimonialized places or official commemorations on a nation’s agenda. As the sociologist Marie-Claire Lavabre points out, this effervescence of questions related to collective memory has been affected mostly by concerns of History, which coincide with the publication of Lieux de mémoire written by Pierre Nora4. The notion of memory, understood in its collective meaning, has known an increasing and unprecedented popularity over the last 30 years in the public area, in the common uses and the media sphere, generally around political or legal issues. These articles have been elaborated for and after an international workshop of young researchers organized by the Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques – EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris, in October 2011. This thematic issue of the review New Cultural Frontiers gathers innovative contributions about the concept of « memory », from a sociological and anthropological perspective.
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