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2. The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory: By Paul Bartrop. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 278. A$39.99 paper.
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O'Brien, Darren
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REFUGEES , *REFUGEE children , *GENOCIDE , *MEMORY , *BOOK covers , *AUSTRALIAN authors , *COLLECTIVE memory ,AUSTRALIAN history - Abstract
"The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory" by Paul Bartrop is a book that explores Australia's relationship to the Holocaust. The author discusses Australian governmental policy, the influence of Britain, and the public's view of Jewry during the war years. While the book provides valuable insights, the reviewer notes that it is largely a revised edition of Bartrop's previous work from 1994, with some new material added. The reviewer suggests that the book could have delved deeper into the coverage of the Holocaust by other Australian newspapers and analyzed the attitudes of different states and territories. The final chapters cover the post-1945 period but are considered brief and lacking in depth. The reviewer also questions the book's omission of the Helen Demidenko scandal and the fabrication of Holocaust-related testimony in other Australian works, and raises important questions about Australia's refugee acceptance policies in the face of genocidal horror. Overall, the book is praised for its readability and as a valuable resource for students. [Extracted from the article]
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3. INTIMATE GEOPOLITICS: Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold: By SARA SMITH. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2020; 182 pp; index. $120 (cloth), isbn 9780813598574; $29.95 (paper), isbn 9780813598567; $29.95 (electronic) isbn 9780813598581; $29.95 (PDF), isbn 9780813598604
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Fincher, Warren
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SOCIAL forces , *GEOPOLITICS , *MARRIAGE , *POLITICAL image , *COMMUNITIES , *COLLECTIVE memory , *CIVIL society - Abstract
INTIMATE GEOPOLITICS: Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold: By SARA SMITH. In a vivid ethnographic study of the Ladakh region in northern India, Smith provides an intricate examination of how community tensions are shaped by ethnic identities, family planning, and majoritarian politics - and one incendiary moment on a public street. Though I Intimate Geopolitics i is overtly a study of Ladakhi territorial politics as related to family dynamics, the commentary on sectarianism is relevant beyond the confines of the distant province. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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4. Cinema Memories: A People's History of Cinema-Going in 1960s Britain: MELVYN STOKES, MATTHEW JONES and EMMA PETT (eds.), 2022, London, British Film Institute, pp. xii + 237, illus., £25 (paper).
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English, Angela
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NINETEEN sixties , *COLLECTIVE memory , *MEMORY , *MOTION picture audiences - Abstract
Thus each chapter addresses a different aspect of cinema going memories. The intention of this project was to extend knowledge of cinema history with an emphasis on how films were received and the social experience of cinema going. The six chapters clearly set out different aspects of the 1960s cinema going experience- social experiences, sex and cinema going, the experience of watching American films and British films, European films, and postcolonial audiences. [Extracted from the article]
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5. Books Received.
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MEMOIRS ,CANADIAN history ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
Troubling Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Education: Critical Perspectives, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2022, 328 pp., $46.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77212-600-6. 30 Tepperman, Lorne and Maria Finnsdottir, Canada's Place: A Global Perspective, Oakville, ON, Rock's Mills Press, 2022, 222 pp., CAN $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77244-230-4. 31 West, Leah, Thomas Juneau, and Amarnath Amarasingam, eds., Stress Tested: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian National Security, Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2022, 280 pp., $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-77385-243-0. 32 Wilson, Michael, Something within Me: A Personal and Political Memoir, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2022, 302 pp., CAN $24.95 (paper) ISBN 978-1-4875-4438-6. The I American Review of Canadian Studies i has received the following books for review. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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6. Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial, and New Zealand History.: By Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Road and Keziah Wallis. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2022. Pp. 183. NZ$ $17.99 paper.
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Light, Rowan
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LIANAS , *HISTORICAL literacy , *COLLECTIVE memory ,NEW Zealand history - Abstract
The variety of contributions in I Fragments i point to how we might yet substantially revise current understandings of New Zealand's colonial conflict and its memories. This "fragmented" but exciting collection is useful as a short accessible text for Australian scholars wanting to understand shifts in New Zealand's commemoration of colonial conflict. Kidman pitches a larger context of colonial conflict and its legacy in an opening chapter on the 250th commemoration of Captain Cook in 2019, conveyed beautifully in an ethnographic mode. [Extracted from the article]
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7. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America: By Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-4696-5504-8 (paper); 978-1-4696-5503-1 (cloth). Pp. [xx], 259, illus. US $24.95 (paper); US $90.00 (cloth)
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Langfur, Hal
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CARTOGRAPHERS , *GEOGRAPHIC boundaries , *MAPS , *TEXTILES , *COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
Several revealing maps appear toward the end of Jeffrey Erbig's fascinating inquiry into imperial efforts to demarcate the border between Portuguese and Spanish South America. Border practices followed this new mode of border thinking, and not only for Europeans. Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met: Border Making in Eighteenth-Century South America: By Jeffrey Alan Erbig, Jr. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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8. Into the Loneliness: The Unholy Alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates: By Eleanor Hogan. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2021. Pp. 448. A$34.99 paper.
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Gall, Adam
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DAISIES , *ABORIGINAL Australians , *INDIGENOUS peoples , *LONELINESS , *COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
Into the Loneliness: The Unholy Alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates: By Eleanor Hogan. The biographical and historical material in I Loneliness i is framed by travelogue as Hogan retraces routes taken by Hill and Bates. Hogan also uses material from "the Daisy Chain" (a loose group of researchers interested in Bates during the 1970s and 1980s), who had access to interview subjects who knew Bates and Hill. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022
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9. The legacy of loss: a contemporary take on the Bengal partition of 1947 through the lens of art.
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Roy, Rituparna
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COLLECTIVE memory ,FISH as food ,ART exhibitions ,ART historians ,PARTITION of India, 1947 - Abstract
Sample this: a hypothetical menu book of fish recipes from both sides of the Bengal border; a barbed wire running through the Ichhamati, showing the river's indifference to political borders; a sandstone and fabric pillar standing as a metaphoric monument of unity between religions, commemorating Gandhi's peace march in Noakhali in 1946; an accordion book opening out, unfolding narratives immortalised in Ritwik Ghatak's films. These are some of the artworks that were showcased at The Legacy of Loss: Perspectives on the Partition of Bengal, an Art Exhibition that the Kolkata Partition Museum Trust (KPMT) organised in collaboration with the Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC), to commemorate the 74th anniversary of India's Partition. The Exhibition ran from 17 to 29 August 2021 at KCC, and was supported by Tata Steel and the Emami Foundation. Conceptualised and conceived by the late art historian, Dr. Rajasri Mukhopadhyay, and curated by KCC, this was an unique Exhibition on the Bengal Partition by five contemporary artists – Paula Sengupta, Vinayak Bhattacharya, Debasish Mukherjee, Amritah Sen and Dilip Mitra – each with a distinct style and perspective on the theme. As Rajasri Mukhopadhyay put it, Partition provided 'the psychological topography for this Exhibition. The pictorial narratives ... [found here] are embedded in the geographical sites of ancestry, the physical border, the trajectories of nostalgia in refugee colonies, and stories of inherited memories.' This paper will delve into the uniqueness of this Exhibition and argue for the importance of the Arts in preserving cultural memory, something that KPMT strongly believes in. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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10. Persistence and change.
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Palang, Hannes
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CLIMATE change ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
The article is an editorial from the journal Landscape Research, written by the new Editor-in-Chief, Hannes Palang. Palang acknowledges the challenges faced in recent years, including the COVID-19 pandemic and security crises, and discusses their impact on landscapes and landscape research. The journal has been successful in attracting submissions and readership from around the world, with a focus on interdisciplinary research. Palang announces the winners of the journal's Best Paper Prize and Best Paper by an Early Career Researcher for 2023. Looking ahead, Palang mentions changes in the editorship and plans for special issues and essays on the topic of 'landscapes of care'. The journal is also strengthening its connection with research activities funded by the Landscape Research Group. [Extracted from the article]
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11. Collecting traces of the outside world: an alternative collective memory of the lockdown.
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Severo, Marta and Gensburger, Sarah
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COVID-19 pandemic ,STAY-at-home orders ,SOCIAL media ,PUBLIC spaces ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
During the COVID-19 lockdown, cultural heritage institutions responded promptly to this difficult time by launching a series of digital collections of traces of this historical moment. Due to the limitations of the lockdown, such collections have generally focused on the intimate dimension of the pandemic, representing represented the outside world (streets, shops, cultural venues, etc.) as a site of emptiness. This paper examines the 'Windows in lockdown' initiative, which aimed to collect photographs of the messages displayed in physical locations during the lockdown period. The collection was carried out through an action research approach based on a participatory platform and social media. A collection of 1,224 photos taken in France between March and May 2020 was built. This paper analyses this collection through a social semiotics approach. The analysis highlights the role played by the outside world as a generator of an alternative collective memory during COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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12. Saving the Reef: The Human Story Behind One of Australia's Greatest Environmental Treasures: By Rohan Lloyd. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2022. Pp. 272. A$32.99 paper.
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Urwin, Jessica
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COLLECTIVE memory , *OIL spills , *HISTORY of colonies , *REEFS ,AUSTRALIAN history - Abstract
"Saving the Reef: The Human Story Behind One of Australia's Greatest Environmental Treasures" by Rohan Lloyd is a book that explores the possibility of saving Australia's Great Barrier Reef in the context of climate change. The author examines the famous Save the Reef campaign of 1967-75 and its impact on public memory. Lloyd argues that the historical reality of the Reef's current crisis is complex and intertwined with settler ambition, tourism, conservation, science, and extraction. The book raises questions about the Reef's management, jurisdiction, and the different perspectives on what it means to "save" the Reef in the Anthropocene. [Extracted from the article]
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13. Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate).
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Barber, Lachlan and Chung, Po-Yin Stephanie
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YACHT racing ,MARITIME history ,CULTURAL property ,HERITAGE tourism ,ARCHIVAL research - Abstract
Hong Kong's cultural heritage and tourism offerings include several prominent symbols and legacies drawn from the waters that surround it, including dragon boat racing, Tin Hau temples honouring the Goddess of the sea, and iconic junk boats sailing on the harbour. Within the growing field of Hong Kong heritage studies, however, there has been little work addressing these and other aspects of its maritime past. This paper addresses this contradiction, of the simultaneous presence and absence of maritime heritage. It does so by considering the story of the 'coming ashore' (上岸) of people who lived on boats in the fishing centre of Aberdeen on the south side of Hong Kong Island. In the 1960s, many of them moved into Yue Kwong Chuen, an early public housing estate which is now being redeveloped. Drawing on archival research and oral history interviews, we consider the significance of the estate as an important example of the heritage of public housing that sheds light on the status of boat dwellers, excluded for centuries in South China, and their eventual incorporation into land-based society. The paper contributes new insights on collective memory and identity formation in Hong Kong under and after colonial rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. 'How can you feel guilty for colonialism? it is a folly': colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right.
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Griffini, Marianna
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RIGHT-wing populism ,CRITICAL discourse analysis ,HISTORY of colonies ,IMPERIALISM ,POLITICAL parties ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
This paper draws attention to the role of colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right. Italy's colonial past has been long confined on the fringes of memory in Italian politics and in the Italian public debate. While recent academic attention has been devoted to the selective colonial memory transpiring from Italian cultural products, scarce attention has been paid to colonial memory in contemporary Italian political parties' discourse. Therefore, by applying Critical Discourse Analysis to semi-structured interviews with Italian populist radical right representatives from the Lega and Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), this paper aims at investigating which role colonial memory plays in these parties' discourse. This paper argues that the Lega and FdI reproduce colonial discourse in constructing the image of the contemporary immigrant Other. At the same time, they forge a selective memory of Italy's colonial past, cleansed from its most controversial aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. The arctic migration route: local consequences of global crises.
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Paulgaard, Gry and Soleim, Marianne Neerland
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COLLECTIVE memory ,SCHOOL size ,BORDERLANDS ,WAR ,CRISES ,REFUGEES - Abstract
This paper addresses peace education focusing on how place-based experiences and collective memories stimulate local mobilisation for refugees fleeing from war. The Arctic Migration Route, located above 69
th degree north, became an alternative to dangerous boat trips on the Mediterranean Sea, for people seeking safety and protection in the fall of 2015. During a few months, over 5,500 people from 35 nations, mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran came to a municipality in north Norway with 10,000 inhabitants. The paper demonstrates how global conflicts far away, have important local consequences across borders and huge distances. Interviews with local authorities, teachers, voluntary workers constitute the main empirical material. By combining theories of place-based experiences and collective memories with phenomenology of practice, geographical location, collective and cultural memories across generations, are analysed as important driving forces for the local mobilization to help refugees. This approach opens for a wider perspective on learning, showing how climate, culture and history have important role as material and sociocultural education in this arctic border region in the north of Norway. Based on empirical data from a small local school, the paper will document how a local community can find solutions to globally produced problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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16. Feminist spirituality and Roma artistic activism: the Afterlife of the uncanonised Saint Sara Kali.
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Asavei, Maria Alina and Bushnell, Alexis Marin
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ROMANIES ,COLLECTIVE memory ,SPIRITUALITY ,ACTIVISM ,AFTERLIFE ,SAINTS ,PREGNANT women - Abstract
This paper focuses on the artistic-political renderings of the sacred feminine deity of the Romani people, Sara Kali. While her genealogy is shrouded in mystery and controversy, Sara Kali is regarded as the uncanonised saint protector of oppressed, disenfranchised and vulnerable peoples, as well as the protector of pregnant women. Venerated by some Romanies in both spiritual registers of sainthood and audacious political activism, Sara Kali epitomises motherly love and feminine strength. The argument posited in this paper is that Sara Kali fosters a culture of commemoration, materialised in contemporary artistic productions whose political underpinnings resist the unbridled Romaphobia and its venomous consequences. We argue that the cultural artistic memory of Sara Kali becomes a political tool in empowering Romanies to express their identity concerns as well as centuries of oppression and injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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17. Making a narrative tourism map: the case of Jiaxing's 'Red Boat Spirit Map', China.
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Lingqi Wang, Jiangyue Zhang, Min Weng, Mengjun Kang, and Shiliang Su
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MAP design ,CARTOGRAPHY ,COLLECTIVE memory ,EVIDENCE gaps ,NARRATION - Abstract
Today, the marriage between cartographic language and narrative strategies has reshaped maps with the generative capability to represent the intangible historical characters and events involved in social memories following a narrative manner. Despite these advances, rather few efforts have been spared to unveil the potential of tourism maps in a narrative form. This paper seeks to rectify the gaps in this line of research by unfolding the underlying theories and cartographic design guidelines for making narrative tourism maps. In particular, a narrative cartographic design approach is demonstrated and evidenced to be practical using the case of 'Red Boat Spirit Map', a tourism map designed for Jiaxing City, one of the most well-known destinations of China's red tourism. It is believed that the theoretical instrument and cartographic design guidelines presented in our paper are particularly relevant and can be easily adapted to more general research of narrative maps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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18. Where the personal intersects with the political: I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, by Alaina E. Roberts, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Cloth $34.95. Paper $24.95.
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Green, Hilary
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BLACK people , *COLLECTIVE memory , *ARCHIVES , *AFRICAN Americans , *RECONSTRUCTION (U.S. history, 1865-1877) , *AFRICAN American families , *AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 - Abstract
"I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" by Alaina E. Roberts explores the experiences of enslaved African Americans and freedpeople in modern-day Oklahoma. The author challenges the traditional narrative of settler colonialism, highlighting the role of Native American enslavers in the forced relocation of enslaved laborers from the southeastern United States. The book examines the complexities of race, citizenship, and belonging for Indian freedpeople in both tribal communities and the United States. Roberts also explores the impact of the Civil War, the Confederacy's alliance with the Five Nations, and the geopolitical tensions on the emancipation and rights of Indian freedpeople. The personal stories and family history woven into the narrative provide a unique perspective on finding belonging, freedom, and land in Indian Territory. The book contributes to the growing field of Civil War and Reconstruction Studies, emphasizing the importance of African American family history and collective remembrance in understanding marginalized histories. [Extracted from the article]
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19. 'Changing the Course of a Super Tanker': A Study of Senior and Junior Managers' Enactments of a Transition Narrative.
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Koll, Henrik, Esmark, Kim, and Jensen, Astrid
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COLLECTIVE memory ,TELECOMMUNICATION management ,CHANGE management ,ORGANIZATIONAL change ,SOCIALIZATION - Abstract
This paper investigates how a mnemonic community of a senior and junior generation of frontline managers, respectively with first-hand and second-hand memories of the organizational past, enact a shared historical transition narrative as part of their everyday practice of change management in a Scandinavian telecommunications company. The study shows the importance of actors' individual trajectories and generational memberships for the understanding of collective memory in organizations. Based on the construct narrative habitus, the paper offers, as its primary theoretical contribution, a practice-theoretical framework for the study of mnemonic socialization and cross-generational dynamics of organizational mnemonic communities. MAD statement This article aims to Make A Difference (MAD) by providing an analysis of junior and senior managers' use of a historical transition narrative during temporally prolonged organizational change. The article offers new perspectives on the use of historical narratives and collective memory to manage change by showing that junior and senior generations of managers are habitually dispositioned to enact shared narratives in different ways. While extant research has shown collective memory to be an effective change management tool, our analysis draws attention to cross–generational dynamics as a particularly influential yet overlooked factor in shaping managerial enactments of shared historical narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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20. Crafting arts-based stories of exile, resistance and trauma among Chileans in the UK.
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Gideon, Jasmine
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ART exhibitions , *TRAUMA centers , *COLLECTIVE memory , *HEALING , *THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
In 2017 an exhibition of over 100 craft pieces created by Chilean political prisoners held in concentration camps during the military dictatorship, was launched in the UK along with an accompanying short film, 'Crafting Resistance: the Art of Chilean Political Prisoners'. Drawing on these arts-based interventions, the paper reflects on the use of craft objects both as a symbol of political resistance and a means of initiating difficult conversations around forced political exile, trauma and mental health while creating space for people to 'tell their stories'. Indeed, the paper contends that projects such as Crafting Resistance can 'care for knowledge' through the curation of craftwork while simultaneously creating space for counter memories. The analysis also highlights the changing relationship between the craft makers and the craftwork, argueing that placing the craft objects within the exhibition assigns a new role to the objects as they became part of a display of collective memories and potentially contribute towards collective healing. Finally, the paper advocates for greater recognition of the historical use of craft as a political expression, which to date has been relatively neglected in debates around the use of arts-based research and methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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21. Settler memory and Indigenous counter-memories: narrative struggles over the history of colonialism in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Hellmann, Olli
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As with other settler colonies, Aotearoa New Zealand has seen a long-running conflict between a Euro-centric 'master narrative' of the historical past and Indigenous counter-narratives. Previous research on these narrative struggles adopts the 'top-down' perspective on collective remembering, focusing primarily on how memory entrepreneurs deploy cultural texts and practices to construct particular representations of history. To broaden the methodological scope, the analysis developed in this paper follows the 'bottom-up' approach, which makes it possible to map the distribution of collective memories across individuals and investigate their attitudinal effects. By means of a rigorous survey study (N = 1,066), the paper reveals three key findings about collective remembering in Aotearoa New Zealand. First, individuals in the 'critical years' of adolescence are more open to weaving Indigenous Māori perspectives into their understandings of history than older generations. Second, when compared to the monocultural master narrative, historical reconstructions that reflect Māori experiences promote a more inclusive understanding of national identity and generate public support for redressing historical injustices against Māori. Third, the empirical analysis finds no evidence for claims made by conservative political actors that creating space for the articulation of Māori histories perpetuates social division and weakens popular identification with the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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22. Stefano Lecchi: A Photographic Pilgrimage of War.
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Saunders, Beth
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NATIONALISM ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,POLITICAL doctrines ,COLLECTIVE memory ,PHOTOGRAPHS - Abstract
This article examines the photographic career of Stefano Lecchi, the Italian photographer best known for his series of photographs documenting the aftermath of the defence of the Roman Republic in 1849, a key episode in Italy's nationalist movement, the Risorgimento. This study concentrates on the album Fotografi di Roma, which presents thirty of Lecchi's salted paper prints from that series together with eleven topographical views. This album demonstrates how the events of the Risorgimento expanded the existing canon of Italy's historical monuments to include new sites identified with contemporary political actions that in turn contributed to the collective memory of the founding of the nation. Using newly discovered biographical information and highlighting the transnational network of colleagues and patrons surrounding this album, the author proposes the significance of these photographs to Italian nation-building across the political spectrum and posits Lecchi as an important, although often neglected, figure in the early development of paper photography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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23. Tunisian youth as drivers of socio-cultural and political changes: glocality and effacement of cultural memory?
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Gabsi, Zouhir
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YOUTHS' attitudes ,POLITICAL change ,ARAB Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012 ,COLLECTIVE memory ,GLOCALIZATION - Abstract
The prediction that the nation of Tunisia would initiate a walk towards democracy was not on anyone's mind. In the context of two draconian regimes and a colonial past, the 2010 Arab Spring brought significant changes to Tunisia, observable mainly in freedom of expression and association. This helped to create and shape a space wherein Tunisians' daily lives reflect the cultural juxtaposition of an Islamic heritage with a secular propensity. This paper examines the content of Tunisian cultural memory from youths' perspectives on the past, cultural icons, and nostalgia. It argues that Tunisian youths' disenchantment with the socio-political life in Tunisia and its impact on their feeling of belonging hinges on a sense of fracture or discontinuity in the nation's cultural memory, considered the blueprint of Tunisianité or national identity. The paper demonstrates that despite youths' hybrid culture, influenced by 'globalization' and 'glocalization,' the majority of surveyed youth value, inter alia, family life, and identify with the Islamic culture and religion. Tunisia's youth may know little of their pre-colonial and post-colonial history, but Tunisians should reengage with their young constituency through education and a cultural memory that binds generations. This will ensure that the Tunisian culture does not absorb western values and ideals in the name of progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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24. Historical significance and the challenges of African historiography: analysis of teacher perspectives.
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Boadu, Gideon
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HISTORIOGRAPHY ,HISTORY teachers ,CONSCIOUSNESS ,AFRICAN history ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
The history, people, and culture of many African nations have been written, projected, and interpreted in different ways. The contents and variability in the early accounts about African nations, which were based largely on external viewpoints and interests which barely represented the realities in Africa, created confusions about African historiography and affected how Africans, their cultures, and histories were perceived in Western cultures. Drawing on the literature on African historiography, this paper examines Ghanaian History teachers' perspectives of historically significant events in Ghana's past, and how these perspectives translate into classroom practice. Findings demonstrate teachers' consciousness and belief in traditional African cultural practices and the unique modes of preserving and doing African history. The paper makes a case for how African historiography and History education should look different to those conducted in Western contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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25. Footprints without feet: theatre as recourse to collective memory in Kashmir.
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Ajsi, Tanveer
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THEATER ,FOOTPRINTS ,COLLECTIVE memory ,PUBLIC demonstrations - Abstract
This paper examines the work of Kashmiri theatre-maker Arshad Mushtaq in the context of the political turmoil in Kashmir. It argues that Mushtaq's theatre practice challenges the India's attempt to assimilate Kashmir into its national cultural framework. Focusing on three of Mushtaq's plays rooted in collective memory, the paper examines how his work resists cultural appropriation and disrupts the notion of normalcy imposed by the state. It discusses how Mushtaq's work dislodges state-approved cultural conditions, using a unique blend of politics and aesthetics to create a powerful voice of protest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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26. Reflecting on a painful Past: Journalism, Temporal Reflexivity and the Collective Memory of Child Sexual Abuse in a Local News Setting.
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Hess, Kristy and McCallum, Kerry
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COLLECTIVE memory ,CHILD sexual abuse ,REFLEXIVITY ,SOCIAL policy ,JOURNALISM ,CHILD abuse - Abstract
This study examines the role of a local newspaper in shaping a community's collective memory of child sexual abuse by documenting changing representations of a former rural orphanage and its custodians where such horrific crimes took place. The paper conducts an across-time analysis of news coverage (1944–1954 and 2010–2020) to map these changing representations in their media, policy and social contexts. It extends scholarship around collective memory and temporal reflexivity as a provocation for journalists to acknowledge and engage with their news outlet's own mediated past (no matter how uncomfortable) when reporting on and interpreting events such as Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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27. Gender debates on the stage of the urban memorial: glitter, graffiti, and bronze.
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Buentello García, María Eugenia Desirée and Rice, Jasmine Quinn
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COLLECTIVE memory ,GRAFFITI ,BRONZE ,GENDER ,MEMORIALS - Abstract
Memorial landscapes are in constant transformation and their values reshape as history is being written. What effect does public opinion have on changes to these spaces? Recently, at an iconic monument in Mexico City a heated debate surrounding gender and the reshaping of the memorial landscape has engaged officials, conservators, protestors, and the public. The preservation of the Column of Independence has been contested from a feminist angle. Re-examining collective memory and heritage preservation in this dynamic space is difficult using traditional theories and practices. This paper reveals the lack of theories and practices available to heritage practitioners to cement new expressions of communicative memory into the cultural memory enshrined in the memorial landscape. The erasure of the contributions of women in the memorial landscape is highlighted. This paper examines the possibilities for layers to be added and preserved in the memorial landscape as the evidence of shifts in collective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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28. Boundary, authority, and legitimacy: journalistic occupational discourse in China: By Hongyi Bai, Shanghai: Fundan University Press, 2020, US$45.99 (paper cover), 318 pp.
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Xu, Guiquan and Wang, Fan
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JOURNALISM ,COLLECTIVE memory ,NONFICTION - Published
- 2022
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29. What value in preserving a fragment of building? A sociological enquiry into the museum preservation of Robin Hood Gardens.
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Hogarth, Lynsey and Emmitt, Stephen
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COLLECTIVE memory , *GARDENS , *MUSEUMS , *SOCIAL change - Abstract
There continues to be much debate as to whether to preserve buildings, and this is particularly pertinent to post-war architecture, especially in the UK. This paper further explores the issue by concentrating on the acquisition of a fragment of Robin Hood Gardens by the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Smithsons' key work was deemed a failed social experiment in its listing verdict, and the acquisition of the fragment during demolition sparked controversy when exhibited at the 2018 Venice Biennale. Devoid of its context in an exhibition setting, the fragment of building questions the applicability of traditional conservation values, particularly those relating to age or architectural value. This paper aims to demonstrate the value of taking a more sociological approach to this dilemma. It uses theories of collective memory, specifically Halbwachs and Bachelard's variations, to explore multiple interpretations of the fragment's physicality. Three frameworks have been chosen for analysis: the changing social housing rhetoric, its listing campaign, and finally the present, a speculative section on what the current interpretations of the past indicate for the future. Through this chronological analysis it is concluded that the Estate's physicality is reduced to a semantic contribution, representative of our current crisis of collective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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30. Uncanny parallels: exile, pandemic, and the Palestinian experience.
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Qabaha, Ahmad and Hamamra, Bilal
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EXILE (Punishment) , *PANDEMICS , *COVID-19 pandemic , *ISRAELI-occupied territories , *PALESTINIANS , *DISTRACTION , *COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
Inspired by Said's concept of exile, Camus' 1947 novel The Plague, and testimonies from our students, this paper explores the striking similarities between experiences of exile and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both exile and the pandemic are seen as intrusive forces causing rupture and discontinuity in one's life at the physical, psychological and socio-cultural levels. This paper demonstrates that for many Palestinians – including us and our students – the pandemic manifests what Freud termed 'repetition compulsion'. That is, many of our students interpret the detrimental and precarious impact of the pandemic as a complex form of exile, a nuanced understanding that blends a historical, communal memory of displacement with a present, universal crisis. This paper further explains that the themes of exile and displacement in Camus' The Plague provide us and our students with a focal point to examine the striking, albeit anachronistic, similarities between the pandemic caused by Israeli occupation and the COVID-19 virus. This uncanny relationship between the pandemic and exile is further substantiated by the fact that the pandemic has provided cover, or at least distraction, for the escalation of oppressive political actions, thus deepening the entrenchment of a physical and psychological 'exile' for Palestinians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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31. Walking the stories of colonial ghosts: A method of/against the geographically mundane.
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Smith, Bryan
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GHOST stories ,STUDENT engagement ,STREET names ,CONSCIOUSNESS ,STORYTELLING ,COLLECTIVE memory ,PROSPECTIVE memory - Abstract
The worlds we inhabit tell stories, stitched into the material and symbolic representations of the past that comes to define the features of our places. These stories are never neutral, anchored as they are in the intentional (re)presentation of a racialized white, masculine, and settler story as "our" story. Indeed, space, as an ostensibly neutral platform for storytelling, is called into service of settler-state anxieties to write itself into every (spatial) corner of our lives. This paper takes up this issue by theorizing how the street naming practices of settler communities write into everyday life a settler collective memory that, as a consequence, both shapes space into (settler) place and powerfully intervenes in individual (student) geographic consciousness. By way of vignettes woven throughout theoretical considerations as examples of everyday encounters, I unpack what it means to think of the language of invaded place with greater critical intention as an example of how walking through space can become a pedagogical method, with a focus on detailing what it might mean to support learner engagement with the names that make their communities coherent and media of normalized colonial memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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32. Dealing with a violent past and its remnants in the present: the challenges of remembering the wars in Chechnya in the Chechen Diaspora in the EU.
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Le Huérou, Anne and Merlin, Aude
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DIASPORA , *POLITICAL violence , *CHECHENS , *COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
This paper investigates how memories of a violent past are interpreted by different generations of exiles, particularly when the primary feature of memory in their homeland is forgetfulness. This occurs when the echoes of political and institutional violence from "home" perpetually reverberate in the diaspora, and when host societies have constructed a securitization framework that progressively redefines Chechens from victims to perceived threats. Based on the case of the Chechens living in the EU since the early 2000s and grounded in field observations and semi-structured interviews conducted from 2015 to 2022, this paper delves into a "conflict-generated diaspora" in formation. Our aim is to understand the intricate interplay of factors and dynamics that contribute to the construction of individual and collective memories of a violent past within the Chechen diaspora. We also consider the impact of transgenerational memory transmission and generational divides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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33. Tangibles, intangibles and other tensions in the Culture and Communities Mapping Project.
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Currie, Morgan and Correa, Melisa Miranda
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CULTURAL geography ,ACCULTURATION ,GENTRIFICATION ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
This paper describes the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a study that uses cultural mapping to understand the relationships between the Edinburgh's cultural spaces and local communities. The paper begins by detailing different methodological paths that those carrying out cultural mapping projects will navigate: formatting the project to collect quantitative or qualitative data, which is usually correlated with tangible or intangible data, as well as approaching the map as a means to policy outcomes or as part of a process of community building through collective memory, or both. The paper then offers an in-depth case study of the Edinburgh-based map, a tool that artists, art institutions, and policy makers can use to better understand Edinburgh's cultural geography and guide further research on arts equity and access. The findings section concludes with thoughts on what the project reflects about the cultural mapping enterprise more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. Collective memory and identity of a rebranded 'Chinatown'.
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Ding, Seong Lin
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COLLECTIVE memory ,GROUP identity ,ANCIENT cities & towns ,REBRANDING (Marketing) ,CULTURAL property - Abstract
This study explores the collective memory and identity of a Chinese neighbourhood at the old city centre of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since the 1990s, this old neighbourhood, which has a famous Cantonese name – 'Chee Chong Kai' (CCK) – has been contentiously rebranded by the state as 'Chinatown'. The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, by drawing on observational data, interviews, questionnaires and photographic data, this paper uncovers the collective memory of the neighbourhood. Second, this study offers a critical insight into the renaming and rebranding of the CCK, identifying the ways in which the renaming/rebranding has affected the neighbourhood's collective identity. The findings reveal concerns over the changing landscapes in the neighbourhood that have affected or erased its character and heritage and the potential contention between the official and the 'vernacular' collective memory/identity. More importantly, the renaming/rebranding of the place itself reflects, paradoxically, the pressure to forego the neighbourhood's Chineseness. Drawing on the wider international tourism market and other power-related concerns, this study argues the need to reposition the CCK and an absence of major efforts to sustain the urban space and urban heritage in a way that would represent and proclaim a truly integrated (and inclusive) Malaysian society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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35. Other "Adams": Twelver Shiʿism and Human Evolution.
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Inloes, Amina
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HUMAN evolution ,COLLECTIVE memory ,HUMAN origins ,HADITH ,HUMAN body ,ISLAM - Abstract
This paper presents a Twelver Shīʿī defence of human evolution. It was written in dialogue with Shoaib Ahmed Malik's, Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghāzālī and the Modern Evolution Paradigm. It synthesises classical Twelver Shīʿī exegesis, hadith, doctrines, and philosophy with contemporary exegesis and scientific thought. Rather than taking the approach of scientific exegesis, it focuses on the origins of the human being in the immaterial realm, and is one of the few Islamic defences of evolution to be hadith-based. It also considers the possible role of hadith as cultural memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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36. Halted narratives: The combative futurity of Sahrawi female militant's public memory.
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Solana, Vivian
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SAHRAWI (African people) , *COLLECTIVE memory , *NARRATIVES , *HISTORY of labor , *IMPERIALISM , *NATIONALISM - Abstract
Since 1976, the Sahrawi national liberation movement known as the Polisario Front anticipates state sovereignty in Western Sahara by organizing into the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Southern Algeria. Drawing on excerpts from the life-histories of six Sahrawi women who contributed to build the SADR's early social and physical infrastructures, this paper presents practices of public remembrance as coextensive to a history-making labour of social regeneration that seeks international recognition for the Sahrawi nation, as well as to pass on nationalist moral values and political desire across time. The life-worlds of the Sahrawi generation these six women belong to have undergone considerable structural changes brought about by Spanish colonialism, the emergence of the Polisario Front in the 1970s, war, forced displacement, and a 1991 UN mediated ceasefire. Highlighting the on-going vitality of anticolonial nationalisms, this paper offers an account of how elderly Sahrawi female militants seek to socially regenerate the project of a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism through their production of history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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37. The Alphabet War: Language, Collective Memory and National Identity in Contemporary Debates over National Minority Rights in Croatia.
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Banjeglav, Tamara
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LEGAL status of minorities ,COLLECTIVE memory ,NATIONALISM ,GROUP identity ,SERBIAN language ,LINGUISTIC minorities - Abstract
This paper discusses a crisis regarding Serb national minority rights in the city of Vukovar. The crisis was caused by the government's attempt to introduce Serbian language and Cyrillic alphabet in the official use in Vukovar. The paper examines which symbolic meanings of the Cyrillic alphabet were used with the aim of consolidating national identity and collective memory of the war in Croatia. The paper argues that the use of a minority language and script was discursively framed as a means of aggression of one ethnic community over another, rather than as an issue of minority rights. The paper is theoretically grounded in Michele Foucault's theory about the 'discourse of perpetual war'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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38. Digital preservation and the sustainability of film heritage.
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Antoniazzi, Luca
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DIGITAL preservation ,PRESERVATION of materials ,PRODUCT obsolescence ,DIGITAL cinematography ,COLLECTIVE memory ,CULTURAL history ,SUSTAINABILITY - Abstract
This paper addresses the lack of published work on the preservation of digital materials within European film heritage institutions (FHIs).
1 In the long-term, technological change might have relevant consequences, on the sustainability of film preservation, affecting the ability to write film history and experience cultural memories. Although there is general awareness of the complexity and the cost of maintenance of digital preservation infrastructures, we have little knowledge of what specifically film heritage institutions are doing to address these challenges. Based on elite interviews with leading film archivists and analysis of relevant policy documents, this paper shows that FHIs are actively engaging with technological and institutional change and implementing valuable initiatives. However, this paper confirms that, roughly 10 years since the widespread of digital cinema distribution, FHIs are generally still striving to provide long-term sustainable and trustworthy solutions to safeguard the digital materials that they are acquiring or creating via digitisation. Although some institutions have built fairly reliable infrastructures, problems still arise from the instability of the information technology sector and from its persistent strategies of planned obsolescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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39. The South Slav 'Golden Age' and Gender Representation in Music.
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Grmuša, Verica
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GENDER ,FEMININITY ,EPIC poetry ,MIDDLE Ages ,FAMILY values ,SACRED space ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
This paper explores the gender representation of the Kosovo Myth by South Slav composers at the turn of the twentieth century in the context of the creation of Serbian and pan-Yugoslav identities. The Kosovo Myth emerged not long after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, waged between predominantly Serbian forces and the Ottoman Turkish army. However, the event assumed major significance only in the nineteenth century, during which the medieval period became the 'Golden Age' for nationalist aspirations. Held in Serbian collective memory as a fateful defeat that led to the loss of independence, the Battle of Kosovo became the region's 'sacred place'. Drawing from the body of epic poetry, referred to as The Kosovo Cycle, late nineteenth-century South Slav composers relied on male heroes as their subjects, as evident in their choral compositions and local Singspiels. This paper explores the shift from old forms and the 'heroic' male characters to female figures in the Kosovo Myth, as evident in early twentieth-century music. The fictional characters Kosovka devojka [The Maiden of Kosovo] and Majka Jugovića [The Jugović Mother] represented the highest ideal of family values, affirmative of a patriarchal construction of femininity. While both characters offered the South Slav composers a narrative focused on universal family values rather than individual ethnic histories that could facilitate crossing ethnic boundaries, the Jugović Mother emerged as the region's universal inspiration; the choice of a maternal figure rather than a young woman confirms the practice of attributing women, traditionally viewed as inferior to men, a positive value through the concept of motherhood. Extending its scope to female characters outside of The Kosovo Cycle, this paper opens a debate on gender representation in music of the South Slav region beyond the national discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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40. “They will not erase the blood, of those who fell here”: a multimodal analysis of the music video as a site of (post)memory and resistance against negationism in post-dictatorial Chile.
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Cotal San Martin, Vladimir
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EPISODIC memory , *MUSIC videos , *EMOTIONAL trauma , *MUSICAL analysis , *COLLECTIVE memory , *MEMORY - Abstract
This paper explores how a contemporary music video can pass down memories and trauma in post-dictatorial Chile. Focusing on a video by the Chilean band
Illapu, it uses theories of collective trauma and (post)memory to show how the video represents past traumas and challenges dominant narratives and current negationist discourses. The study finds that the video uses audio-visual and (inter)textual elements to make viewers reflect on the past, underlining its ability to counter attempts to deny or distort history. This contributes to understanding how music videos can serve as sites of “voiced postmemories” and act as powerful tools in the collective processing of traumatic events, promoting truth, justice, and reconciliation in post-dictatorial Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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41. ‘I felt as if I was overflowing’: transitions to adulthood in the aftermath of the Colombian armed conflict.
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García Gómez, Diana Carolina
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WAR , *COLLECTIVE memory , *TRANSITION to adulthood , *SHORT-term memory , *MUSEUM employees - Abstract
This paper proposes a rethinking of the temporal conditions of childhood by centring the affective experiences of fourteen young activists who continuously inhabit the past by working at a collective memory museum in Colombia. It questions notions of time as linear, progressive, chronological, and universal and instead presents alternative ways of
being in time . I discuss young activists’ struggles to imagine mundane futures while constantly comparing themselves with the experiences of the victims of the armed conflict. I then discuss how the museum, as an institutional site of remembrance, sanitises and dictates how the young museum workers ought to remember, making them feel inadequate when their emotions do not align with the museum’s mission. The young activists demonstrate how their transitions into adulthood are determined by simultaneously inhabiting multiple temporalities and defying adult expectations on how to remember. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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42. “Making for Others”: A Creative Inquiry Into Understanding Older Men’s Motivations for Making.
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Vyas, Dhaval, Khristi, Franklin, and Worthy, Peter
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OLDER men , *OLDER people , *MAKER movement , *COLLECTIVE memory , *WOODWORK - Abstract
AbstractThe do-it-yourself (DIY) and maker cultures have expanded into older adult communities and shown to bring a strong agency and well-being outcomes. Looking into well-established spaces, where older adults have engaged in making over a longer period, can provide an insight into the sustained motivations and benefits of making for older adults. Men’s sheds represent a great opportunity in this regard, as they are open, community spaces where retired, older men engage in woodworking, metalworking and other craft-based activities. We involved nine men’s shed members in a creative inquiry where a “probe kit” consisting of recycled timber and wooden materials was provided. The participants were asked to create an artifact from the kit for someone other than themselves. We interviewed them once they completed their projects and qualitatively analyzed their design process. Our findings show that older men’s involvement in making is driven by the ethos of “making for others” and can be seen across three themes: (1) creative expressions; (2) memories and social connections; and (3) practical needs. We unpack these themes in the paper and discuss factors that can play an important role when engaging with older adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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43. Mortuary Practices, Rituality, and Commemorative Places: A View of Kohne Tepesi in the Southern Basin of the Araxes River, Iran.
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Maziar, Sepideh, Zalaghi, Ali, Aghalari, Bayram, Asgari, Sepideh, Sheikhi, Shiva, and Mashkour, Marjan
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FUNERAL industry , *COLLECTIVE memory , *FUNERALS , *WATERSHEDS , *LONG-term memory , *GROUP identity - Abstract
Ritual practices as behavior, and the cognitive acknowledgment of life and death, foster a depth in social identity, collective social memory, and a societal worldview. This paper outlines the evidence of Early Bronze Age burial practices in northwestern Iran to discuss the newly discovered chamber tombs at Kohne Tepesi within the broader context of mortuary practices during the middle and last part of the 3rd millennium b.c. The findings from Kohne Tepesi support the idea that, at least for parts of Kura-Araxes society, burial rites and commemoration of the dead played a crucial role in their worldview. Furthermore, this site demonstrates that the changes in symbolic practices and social behavior during the Early Kurgan period were not spontaneous but rooted in the last phases of the Kura-Araxes period and that the perceptions of earlier traditions had been conserved in long-term social memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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44. ‘From hunter to hunted’: (temporary) marginalisation in Muslim men’s memories of the allied occupation period in Turkey (1918–1922)
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Morack, Ellinor
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MUSLIMS , *COLLECTIVE memory , *HUMILIATION , *SOCIAL role , *NEWSPAPER publishing , *PERIODICAL publishing - Abstract
In this article, I study memories of the Allied occupation of Maraş, Mersin and İzmir that were published in local newspapers between the 1920s and 1960s. The narratives were published when Muslims had re-gained political hegemony and forced both the occupying armies and most local non-Muslims to leave the country for good. The texts I use were published in the dailies Sebilürrreşad in 1921 (in Istanbul), in Ahenk in 1926, in Ege Ekspres in 1958 (both in İzmir), and in the late 1960s in Kuvayi Milliye, a monthly veterans’ magazine published in Mersin. Their authors were ordinary insofar as they were relatively low ranking clerks, former reserve officers, and readers of the İzmir papers. As literate Muslim males able to pen their own memories, however, they certainly held a certain degree of privilege over less educated and illiterate people, women and non-Muslims. In order to analyse their narratives, I use concepts developed by Maurice Halbwachs [Halbwachs, M., 1992 (1939)
On Collective Memory: Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Lewis A. Coser . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, collective memory] and Jan and Aleida Assmann [Assmann, A., and Assmann, J. 1994. Das Gestern im heute. Medien und soziales Gedächtnis.In: K. Merten, S. J. Schmidt and S. Weischenberg, eds.Die Wirklichkeit der Medien: Eine Einführung in die Kommunikationswissenschaft . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 114–140.]. The loss of Ottoman sovereignty also brought about that of Muslim supremacy, which privileged Ottoman Muslims experienced as a massive threat for themselves. As I show throughout, all the stories recount experiences of humiliation and distress that resulted from the reversal of social roles under occupation: Being Muslim was no longer an advantage or even a privilege: the privileged had become ordinary. Memory was gradually securalised, and the use of allusions facilitated forgetting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2024
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45. ‘A distressing scene’? The corpse in the nineteenth-century working-class home.
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Cock-Starkey, Claire
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INTERMENT , *DEAD , *WORKING class , *COLLECTIVE memory , *NINETEENTH century - Abstract
When Edwin Chadwick released his report into burial reform in 1843 he was highly critical of the working-class practice of keeping the dead body in the home for up to a week in the period between death and burial. Chadwick argued that the English working-classes kept the body for so long for economic reasons and that as a result of living in close quarters with a corpse they picked up negative associations with death and suffered moral decline. This paper overturns this assumption by using evidence from nineteenth-century folklore collections and working-class autobiography to argue that the long-standing tradition of keeping the body in the home and rallying round to prepare it for burial held a deep significance for rural working-class people. The gradual preparation of the body for burial engaged the senses and centred on the visual appearance of the corpse enabling rural folk to confirm social bonds through the formation of collective memories, demonstrate the respectability of both the deceased and their family, accept the reality of death, and begin the mourning process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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46. Marketing the mountain man in Wyoming: settler memory, cosplay, and conservative fantasy.
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Wadsworth, Nancy D.
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COLLECTIVE memory , *IDENTITY (Psychology) , *COSPLAY , *COLONIES , *POLITICAL affiliation , *MEMORIALIZATION , *MEMORY , *HISTORICAL reenactments - Abstract
This paper investigates the mountain man as a historical icon that illuminates how settler memory reverberates in the Rocky Mountain West and helps construct regional expressions of conservative political identity. Kevin Bruyneel's analytic of settler memory describes a habitualized process of selective remembrance, 'forgetting,' and disavowal of settler-Indigenous relationships, where today's settlers benefit from legacies of dispossession, violence, and genocidal policies. Using Carbon County, Wyoming, as a case study, I analyze mountain man symbolism in two contemporary contexts: regional tourism marketing and mountain man rendezvous (MMR) reenactment gatherings. Both contexts elevate the mountain man as a symbol of resilience and noble identity. Just as the construct of whiteness has provided a psychological wage against socioeconomic deficits for many Americans, I argue, settler memory of the mountain man compensates for much that settlers experience but won't name, such as the role the U.S. state in removing Indigenous communities; the hardship of economic precarity in regions marked by boom-and-bust cycles and dependent on tourism; and the reality that government provides the greatest share of employment in the region. Adding mountain man symbolism to our understanding of settler memory expands scholars' understanding of settler colonialism's intertwinement with contemporary place-making and political identity construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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47. 'Free men we stand under the flag of our land': a transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism.
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Mwinlaaru, Isaac N. and Nartey, Mark
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ANTHEMS ,POLITICAL attitudes ,NATIONAL songs ,FUNCTIONAL linguistics ,BRITISH colonies ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
Recent studies on colonial discourse have demonstrated that the speeches of freedom activists in colonial Africa served as sites of resistance. One key text type that has, however, been neglected in the critical literature on the discourse of emancipation is the national anthem of colonised states. To fill this gap, the present study examines the discursive enactment of resistance in the anthems of former British colonies in Africa, focusing on the transitivity framework in systemic functional linguistics. Semantic and structural parallelisms across the anthems are identified as evidence of a collective memory, a cultural trauma reconfigured and reconstituted to reclaim a positive identity and project a desirable postcolonial future. They also foreground the motif of freedom and legitimise the African as the owner of the reclaimed territory. These procedures articulate an anti-imperialist and anti-establishment stance that provides hope, strength and encouragement to an oppressed group. This paper extends the scholarship on the discursive enactment of resistance by focusing attention on a context underexplored in the literature. It also illustrates the (re)construction of relevant ideologies in national anthems to stimulate desirable, progressive attitudes among citizenry in African states. The paper is furthermore significant to decolonial research and highlights the role of language in political decolonisation processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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48. A three-thousand-year-old soldier: history and the Hebrew Bible in Jewish-Israeli public education.
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Kisler, Rudy
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COLLECTIVE memory ,PUBLIC education ,HISTORY education ,HISTORY of education ,CURRICULUM ,POLITICAL doctrines - Abstract
History education has been instrumental in transmitting collective memories across generations while sustaining national traditions. Many nations use history education to instill national memories in their future citizens. In the current Jewish context, history is arguably a dominant cultural discourse. History education is deemed central to preparing future Jewish citizens of Israel. In particular, Zionist scholars and educators use the Bible as their primary text, providing an infrastructure of history and myths for this national ideology. In order to investigate the relationship between political ideology, education, and national memories, this paper explores the ways in which the Hebrew Bible and Jewish history are being taught interchangeably in Jewish-Israeli schools. Drawing on various source materials (such as political videos, school curricula, and textbooks), the paper retraces the origins of this conflation, critically examines its goals, and suggests possible effects it may have on the formation of children's and adolescents' collective memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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49. Constructing a Classed Community in Kiryat Eilon (H-300) in Holon: A "Popular-Class" Community on Mizrahi "Building Blocks".
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Adut, Rami and Filc, Dani
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COMMUNITIES ,COLLECTIVE memory ,MIDDLE class - Abstract
This paper examines H-300 or Kiryat Eilon: a neighborhood in the city of Holon that exemplifies Mizrahi mobility into the new middle class. Following Cohen and Leon's seminal insights on the Mizrahi middle class, the paper analyses life stories and other daily practices of H-300 residents in order to assess their (ethno-)class identities. The picture seems to be far more complex than the one described by Leon and Cohen. Mobile Mizrahi personal experience and collective memory are indeed dominant but what they construct is not a "Mizrahi" ethno-class space but a more open and integrated "popular middle class" community. Mizrahi collective and individual experience serve as a "quarry" from which cultural building blocks are produced. The findings suggest the emergence of an all-Israeli "popular middle class" subject, distinct from the upper-middle-class layers, leading the popular classes echelons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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50. Reconquest 2.0: the Spanish far right and the mobilization of historical memory during the 2019 elections.
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Esteve-Del-Valle, Marc and Costa López, Julia
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ELECTIONS ,TREND setters ,POLITICAL parties ,MEDIEVALISM ,POLITICAL elites ,COLLECTIVE memory - Abstract
This paper brings together the literature on far right parties, medievalism and opinion leadership in order to more closely interrogate the memory politics of the far right. We address two broad questions: what does the mobilization of distant-past events do in far right discourse? And how do these memories circulate online? We unpack one specific case study: the mobilization of the topic 'La Reconquista' (The Reconquest) among the computer-mediated networks of one Europe's newest national-populist parties: Spain's VOX. First, we show three strategies through which the Reconquest trope reproduced a conservative historiography that creates a transhistorical, exclusionary and Catholic Spanish nation: the creation of memory sites, the glorification of heroes and a specifically antagonistic memory. Second, we show that the one-word nature of the historical narrative, through its Twitter circulation, gave it a crucial ability to mobilize in the context of an election. Finally, drawing from opinion leader theory we show how these Reconquest narratives were put forward by traditional elite actors such as political parties and newspapers, but relied on the role of ordinary citizens to spread and circulate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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