What is a 'revolution'?: National commemoration, collective memory and managing authenticity in the representation of a political event

Discourse and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-382

  Tileagǎ, Cristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category memberships; Category bound knowledge; Category bound predicates; Collective memory; Commemoration; Discursive psychology; Political event; Romanian revolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449085551     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926508088965     Document Type: Article

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