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The Effects of Truth: Re‐Presentations of the Past and the Imagining of Community
Author(s) -
ALONSO ANA MARIA
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1988.tb00003.x
Subject(s) - constitution , hegemony , nationalism , power (physics) , meaning (existential) , social memory , collective memory , sociology , aesthetics , history , social science , political science , epistemology , law , psychology , art , politics , cognitive science , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Social memory is integral to the creation of social meaning; representations of the past are central to the symbolic constitution of social groups and social identities. This paper examines the production of effects of truth and power in both official and popular historical discourses in Mexico and demonstrates how representations of the past configure the imagining of community (social memory; official/popular historical discourses; nationalism: revolution; hegemony; Mexico).