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3. See Jean Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death (London: Sage, 1993), 85 and passim, for definition of hyperreality.
4. “Our BE Festival Review Round-up,” What’s On Birmingham, accessed October 12, 2019, https://www.whatsonlive.co.uk/birmingham/news/our-be-festival-review-round-up/44721.
5. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, in The Complete Dramatic Works (London: Faber, 1986), 50.
6. Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 86.
7. George Berkeley, A New Theory of Vision and Other Writings (London: J M Dent, 1938), 114–15.
8. Astrid Erll and Ann Rigney, quoted in introduction to Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture, ed. Liedeke Plate and Anneke Smelik (London, New York: Routledge, 2013), 4.
9. Anna Reading, “Seeing Red: A Political Economy of Digital Memory,” Media, Culture & Society 36, no. 6 (2014): 748–60, see esp. 753.
10. John Brewer and Frank Trentmann, eds., introduction to Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives (Oxford: Berg, 2006), 4.
11. Anna Reading, “The Female Memory Factory: How the Gendered Labour of Memory Creates Mnemonic Capital,” European Journal of Women’s Studies (2019): 1–20, see esp. 4.
12. Jonathan Bach, What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Social Past in Germany (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 3.
13. Anna Reading and Tanya Notley, “Globital Memory Capital: Theorizing Digital Memory Economies,” in Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition, ed. Andrew Hoskins (London: Routledge, 2018).
14. Matthew Allen, “The Poverty of Memory: For Political Economy in Memory Studies,” Memory Studies 9, no. 4 (2016): 371–75, see esp. 371.
15. Jen Harvie, Fair Play (London: Palgrave, 2013), 8.
16. I am grateful to Anna Reading for her use of this term, discussed during the “Activist Memory” workshop at Columbia University, November 2–3, 2018.
17. Pierre Bourdieu, “Forms of Capital,” in Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, ed. John G Richardson (New York: Greenwood, 1986). For a discussion of the influence of these forms of capital on tourist consumer decisions, see Erdinç Çakmak, Rico Lie, and Tom Selwyn, “Informal Tourism Entrepreneurs’ Capital Usage and Conversion,” Current Issues in Tourism (2018): 2250–65.
18. See Pierre Bourdieu, The Social Structures of the Economy (London: Polity, 2000).
19. Anna Reading defines mnemonic capital in her article “The Female Memory Factory: How the Gendered Labour of Memory Creates Mnemonic Capital,” European Journal of Women’s Studies (2019): 1–20.
20. Bourdieu, “Forms of Capital,” 241.
21. Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 18.
22. Harvie, Fair Play, 8. Harvie draws on Joseph Pine and James Gilmore’s work on the “experience economy.” See Pine and Gilmore, The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre and Every Business a Stage (Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review, 1999).
23. For a discussion of how community versus public/private funding creates a particular market-driven narrative, see Robyn Autry, “The Political Economy of Memory: The Challenges of Representing National Conflict at Identity-Driven Museums,” Theory and Society 42, no. 1 (2013): 57–80.
24. Jean Baudrillard, “No Reprieve for Sarajevo,” Liberation, January 8, 1994, republished on CTheory.net, http://ctheory.net/ctheory_wp/no-reprieve-for-sarajevo/, September 28, 1994.
25. Terri Tomsky, “From Sarajevo to 9/11: Travelling Memory and the Trauma Economy,” Parallax 17, no. 4 (2011): 49–60, see esp. 49.
26. The idea of the “invisible hand” of the market is discussed in Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann, “Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas, Practices and Governances,” in Markets in Historical Contexts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
27. Carol Martin, “Living Simulations: The Use of Media in Documentary in the UK, Lebanon and Israel,” in Get Real, ed. Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009): 74–90, see esp. 82.
28. See Fiona Gartland, “Dublin Hotels Fully Booked for Easter 1916 Commemorations,” Irish Times, March 9, 2016, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/dublin-hotels-fully-booked-for-easter-1916-commemorations-1.2566748.
29. Pierre Bourdieu, The Social Structures of the Economy (Oxford: Polity, 2005), 21.
30. For a discussion of the relative appeal of popular history books in 2016, see John Spain, “Coogan Blows Ferriter Away,” Independent.ie, January 10, 2016, https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/coogan-blows-ferriter-away-in-explosion-of-1916-books-34344713.html.
31. Bourdieu, The Social Structures of the Economy, 19.
32. Vered Vinitzky Seroussi, “Unpacking the Unspeakable: Silence in Collective Memory and Forgetting,” Social Forces 88, no. 3 (2010): 1103–22, see esp. 1107.
33. Pierre Bourdieu, Acts of Resistance (New York: The New Press, 1999), 30–31.
34. Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction (London: Palgrave, 2017), 9–10.
35. Brian Friel, Translations in Plays One (London: Faber, 1996), 445.
36. Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 14.
37. Rosanne Kennedy and Gillian Whitlock, “Witnessing, Trauma and Social Suffering: Feminist Perspectives,” Australian Feminist Studies 26, no. 69 (2011): 251–55, see esp. 252. Michael Rothberg echoes this, acknowledging that, “all articulations of memory are not equal; powerful social, political and psychic forces articulate themselves in every act of remembrance.” See Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), 16.
38. Walter Benjamin, as quoted in Jeanette Malkin, Memory-Theater and Postmodern Drama (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), 26.
39. Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (London: Sage, 1998), 59.
40. Baudrillard, The Consumer Society, 59.
41. Lizabeth Cohen, “Citizens and Consumers in the United States in the
