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IN recent years, scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds such as anthropology, sociology, psychology and history have paid increasing attention to collective memory in the underwriting and construction of group idenity. Within the Discipline of Sociology, most studies of memory work have focused on various sites of inscribed, written-down memory such as museums, memorials, films, websites, song, books, magazines and so forth. Less attention has been given to non-inscribed ways of bringing the past into the present such as marches, processions and parades. Of those studies that do examine embodies forms of remembrance and the mnemonic capacities of the body, Paul Connerton's text How Societies Remember has been particularly influential as a theorectical point of departure. This article employs, and extends, Connerton's framework to help make sense of the annual re-enactment of the Bloody Sunday march, a movement through space that also entails a movement through ti...
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