This study joins a prolific line of critical research on collective memory in relation to
museums as 'sites of memory'. It takes the political relations between museums and memory …

Since classical times, the art of rhetoric and the practice of politics have been understood to
be inextricably linked. Aristotle viewed the art of rhetoric as essential to citizenship and the …

Commemoration is a multimodal semiotic practice and an important political activity that
serves the formation, reproduction and transformation of political identities. This chapter …

Demonstrating the range of linguistic and semiotic practices which are deployed in the
construction of war memory, The Burden of Traumascapes investigates the discourses of …

This paper is to analyse 180 speeches of the Iranian Supreme Leader (SL), Ayatollah
Sayyid Ali Khamenei, from 2005 to 2013 which are concentrated upon characterising the …

ABSTRACT This essay examines Professor Phil Graham's contributions to the critical study
of “futurology,” that is, the creation and use of projections of the future by elite social actors …

The theoretical and practical relationship between memory and forgetting are often
separated as rhetorical acts of history. However, this separation may fail to account for the …

This thesis is aimed at an analysis of identity constructions in the post-colonial borderland
on Timor where an international demarcation between Indonesia (West Timor) and Timor …

This chapter tackles conceptual and methodological approaches to the nature of discursive
change and its relation to social change, ie longitudinal or diachronic perspectives on …

This research will examine the ideas, motives, and actions of premillennial dispensationalist
Christian Zionism; a literalist, futurist Christian fundamentalism that has aligned itself with …