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On Columbus, Washington, and the purpose of civic forgetting

by Michael Romain October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

In 1983, the political scientist Benedict Anderson famously pointed out that nations “are to be distinguished … by the style in which they are imagined.” And in a similar vein, John Betancur and Janet Smith wrote in their 2016 book, Claiming Neighborhood: New Ways of Understanding Urban Change, that “language is both a tool used […]

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