Memory and Institutional Amnesia in Government

Alastair Stark is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland and the Director of the Graduate Centre of Governance and International Affairs.Hridesh Gajurel is an ARC Laureate Research Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at Australian National University.Jack Corbett is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Vice President of Academic Board at Monash University, Australia.Dennis C. Grube is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow at St Catharine's College.Heather Lovell is Professor of Energy and Society at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and holds a joint position in the School of Social Sciences and the School of Geography, Planning & Spatial Sciences.Rodney J. Scott is Vice Chancellor's Fellow at RMIT University.

• 1: Remembering the Past to Govern in the PresentPart I. Formal-Institutional Amnesia2: Formal-Institutional Amnesia3: The Causes of Institutional Amnesia4: The Effects of Institutional AmnesiaPart II. Cultural Amnesia and Storytelling5: Cultural Memory, Storytelling, and the Loss of Remembrance6: The Ghost of Aid Agencies Past: Narrating the Lives and Deaths of an Institution7: Remembered, Retold, and Forgotten: New Public Management Stories in New Zealand8: The UK Treasury: Memory as Orthodoxy and Convention9: Trauma, Radical Acceptance, and Machinery of Government Changes in the Energy Sector10: Treatments for Institutional Amnesia11: Conclusion