dans les enjeux - non les devoirs

English translation: for memory's sake , not as a duty

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French term or phrase:	dans les enjeux - non les devoirs
English translation:	for memory's sake , not as a duty
Entered by:	silvester55

16:47 May 5, 2011

French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters

French term or phrase: dans les enjeux - non les devoirs

Réaliser ces photographies est indispensable dans les enjeux – et non les devoirs – de mémoire qu’elles induisent, construisent en partie, cernent.

I realise that enjeux can mean stakes, or issues, perhaps even challenges. And normally devoir is a duty, a must. In this context I am not sure any of these words fit and am unsure how to best translate it. This part of the text is generally talking about how documentary photographs can relate to memory and history.

Eleanor P KudoZ activity Questions: 64 (1 open) (17 closed without grading) Answers: 12 United Kingdom
Local time: 12:27

issues , not duties

Explanation:
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-05-05 18:28:18 GMT)
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Enjeux de mémoire
Les questions vives et sensibles de l'enseignement : histoire et mémoire, colonisation, esclavage, Shoah et déportation, immigration, génocide arménien, espaces extra-européens, guerres, débats et lois mémoriels.... Analyse des situations conflictuelles de l’enseignement de l’histoire liées aux tensions qui existent entre histoire et mémoire en milieu scolaire.

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silvester55
Local time: 14:27

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I think your suggestion "for memory's sake, not as a duty" best fitted. You didn't enter it as an answer but rather as a discussion entry though.
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3 +1

for what's at stake, rather than what may be thought required (in remembering)

mikecassady

issues , not duties

silvester55

Discussion entries: 3

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issues , not duties

silvester55
Local time: 14:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

I think your suggestion "for memory's sake, not as a duty" best fitted. You didn't enter it as an answer but rather as a discussion entry though.

14 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

for what's at stake, rather than what may be thought required (in remembering)

Explanation:
I'm attempting here to grasp the expressive sense of this phrase. There is a subtile distinction being made here that asks the artist to trust his eye instead of trying to please received ideas. N'est-ce pas?

mikecassady
Local time: 04:27
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

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