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SYMBOLIC URBAN SPACES AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LOCAL COLLECTIVE MEMORY: A COMPARISON OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGOYA, JAPAN

Drawing from theoretical and empirically based literature, as well as the author's own field research, this article compares the relationship between symbolic urban spaces and collective memory in the cities of Nagoya and Hiroshima, Japan. Focusing on each city's historic castle, as well as Hiros hima Peace Park, this study argues that the relationship between symbolic spaces and collective memory in Nagoya has created a Foucaultian counter-memory in the city. This counter-memory has been cultivated by what Foucault called a "new 'economy' of power" and what Giddens termed "internal pacification. " On the other hand, remembrance in Hiroshima has been socially constructed primarily by a ...

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