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Confronting a Divided Past for a Shared Future: The Lieux de Mémoire of the Altab Ali Park in London

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  • Dániel Vékony

    (International Business School in Budapest, Budapest
    Corvinus University Budapest, Budapest)

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This paper deals with the Altab Ali Park and its significance in regards to the Muslim community in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. Using Pierre Nora’s concept of lieux de mémoire, I would like to demonstrate how the Bangladeshi Muslim minority and the rest of the community of Tower Hamlets construct their collective memory through the transformation of the park. The article argues that the Altab Ali Park is in Pierre Nora’s term a lieu de mémoire with multiple layers, which has been developed to enhance community cohesion in the Borough. The park itself contains further lieux de mémoire with clear messages against extremist secular and religious ideologies. This makes the park a symbol of multicultural coexistence in the district, which could help increase community cohesion through shaping the identity of the inhabitants of Tower Hamlets.

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  • Dániel Vékony, 2017. "Confronting a Divided Past for a Shared Future: The Lieux de Mémoire of the Altab Ali Park in London," Society and Economy, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 39(3), pages 409-427, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:soceco:v:39:y:2017:i:3:p:409-427
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    Keywords

    social remembrance; collective memory; lieux de mémoire; Muslims in Europe; identity;
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    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics

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