 Confronting a Divided Past for a Shared Future: The Lieux de Mémoire of the Altab Ali Park in LondonSociety and Economy, 2017, vol. 39, issue 3, 409-427 Abstract: 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. Keywords: social remembrance; collective memory; lieux de mémoire; Muslims in Europe; identity (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aka:soceco:v:39:y:2017:i:3:p:409-427 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Society and Economy is currently edited by Szent-Iványi, Balázs More articles in Society and Economy from Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary |
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