Two minutes of silence: Social technologies of public commemoration

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 234-252

  Brown, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

commemorative silence; Foucault; social remembering; social technology; spirit photography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858743869     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: 14617447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354311429031     Document Type: Article

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