Towards a postmodern national narrative? The Algerian war memorial and contemporary French landscapes of memory

2019 ◽  
pp. 175069801986314
Author(s):  
Andrea Brazzoduro
Keyword(s):  
Algerian War ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
The Past ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Peculiar Mode

Based on the analysis of files from the Department of Defence, and drawing on interviews with veterans and on their associations’ press, the article focuses on the Algerian War National Memorial in Paris, its long gestation and particularly its double, paradoxical status: that it is at the same time new and old, post-ideological and hyper-ideological. Thanks to its palimpsest configuration, this ‘third millennium memorial’ – as it was described by its creator (the artist Gérard Collin-Thiébaut) – has demonstrated itself to be perfectly tuned to that peculiar mode of relationship to the past that we can define as ‘postmodern’, a mode that is characteristic of what historian François Hartog called the presentist ‘regime of historicity’.

Holy Land, Whose Land

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 208-210
Author(s):  
Zaineb Lstrabadi
Keyword(s):  
Holy Land ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict

Dorothy Drummond's book was born at the dawn of the third millennium,when the author was in Jerusalem. She had taken notes throughout hertravels in the Holy Land, which she defines not only as the land of historicPalestine, but also the lands of present-day Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq,and Egypt (i.e., where the Patriarchs, Prophets, and the Holy Familyroamed). Rather than write a travelogue, she decided to write a book aboutthe Arab-Israeli conflict while interspersing her personal comments (initalics) about her journeys. Her intent is not to "answer the question posedin the title of this book. Rather, by shedding light on dark corners, itattempts to bring understanding," as she explains in the prologue.The book is divided into three parts: a discussion of the IsraeliPalestinianconflict in the present, a discussion of the roots of the conflicttraveling 4,000 years into the past, and a brief discussion of how negotiationis the only way to resolve the conflict. There are maps and pho tographsthroughout the book, as well as a 40-page glossary of the HolyLand's people and places. Drummond has written the work in the presenttense, because of the immediacy of all that has happened in the MiddleEast, but the discussion ultimately centers on the area between theMediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.Her book promises to be a good, balanced account written in a wonwonderfullyaccessible style. However, early on it runs into problems. Forexample, when she talks about the 1956 Israeli attack on Egypt, she fails ...

The Maturation of Afghan Historiography

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Tarzi
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Process ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
The Past

The fate of Afghanistan's written history has been interconnected with the progression and regression of the Afghan state's ability to live with its past as much as with its present. Afghan historiography, in both the official and unofficial versions, has generally sought to “prove” or “disprove” the official versions of Afghanistan's evolving national narrative rather than be, in the words of Edward H. Carr, “a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past.” Despite unprecedented freedoms of expression and exposure to international methods of research, post-Taliban Afghanistan still seems far from coming to terms with its past. One particular trend continues to haunt the country as it tries to move forward in deconstructing or reinventing its history: official Afghan narratives continue to downplay or ignore the violent and divisive period commencing with the 1973 coup that ended the country's monarchical system.

Theological Considerations—Hermeneutical, Ecclesiological, Eschatological Regarding Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past

Horizons ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-151
Author(s):  
Bernard P. Prusak
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Exact Form ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis article analyzes the International Theological Commission's Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past (MR). The document offers methodological reflections about how to proceed in implementing Pope John Paul II's call for the church to ask for forgiveness for past offenses at the dawn of the third millennium of Christianity. MR thus seeks to clarify “the reasons, the conditions, and the exact form of the requests for forgiveness for the faults of the past.” The article raises some specific concerns regarding the three operative distinctions that MR proposes to be applied: between the holiness of the church emphatically differentiated from holiness (and sinfulness) in the church; between church and social context in making historical and theological judgments; and between magisterium and authority in the church (that allows MR to explain how behavior contrary to the Gospel by persons vested with authority in the church need not imply involvement of the magisterial charism).

The Date of the Kapara Period at Gozan (Tell Halaf)

1956 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. F. Albright
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Official Publication ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Third Millennium

Ever since the discovery of the Palace of Kapara by Max von Oppenheim in 1911, there has been a debate—often acrimonious—with respect to its date. As late as 1934 there was a variation of some two millennia among active discussants. With the death of Ernst Herzfeld, who stood out until the end for a date in the third millennium, the debate seems to have closed, at least for the time being. In 1954 the late H. Frankfort came out explicitly for a date during the ninth century, preferably in its second half, for the age of Kapara. The same date, though with a higher upper limit, was maintained by A. Moortgat in the official publication of the sculpture of Gozan which appeared the following year. K. Galling had all along favoured such a dating, which he now espouses without reservation. The present writer has also maintained a date between 1100 and 900, concentrating for the past fifteen years on the tenth century.

scholarly journals Punk as a Strategy for Body Politicization in the Ljubljana Alternative Scene of the 1980s

2017 ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Jasmina Založnik
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
The Government ◽  
Additional Reason

The paper focuses on the notion of punk understood as a political position and as a strategy by the actors of the Ljubljana alternative scene in the 1980s. With exposing the minor, invisible and hidden subjectivities the actors and agents of the scene created a ground for experimentation with subjectivities, but also for shaking the Yugoslav Grand National narrative of ‘brotherhood and unity’.I am emphasizing mainly the notion of the body with and through the code of sex and sexuality, being still a base and the core investment of the government. No matter that the discourse has been radically changed, the procedures and protocols of power investments in their core have not. This is an additional reason and a need to recall the past and tackle the bodies that have appeared as unwanted, as ‘not right and not quiet’ identities in the past in order to evaluate and compare the position of the marginalized and suppressed today. Additionally, I am claiming that only with creating different genealogies can we fight against growing ‘intellectual redundancy’ and the continuous process of erasure of the subjectivities, which we are confronting today. Article received: June 2, 2017; Article accepted: June 12, 2017; Published online: October 15, 2017; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Založnik, Jasmina. "Punk as a Strategy for Body Politicization in the Ljubljana Alternative Scene of the 1980s." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 14 (2017): 145-156. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i14.217

scholarly journals Entre Ranke y Merlín. El bretonismo político y su historiografía romántico-positivista”/“Between Ranke and Merlin. The Bretonist Mouvement and its Romantic-Positivist Historiography

2017 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
José Antonio Rubio Caballero
Keyword(s):  
National Narrative ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Historical School ◽  
The Past ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Political Opinions

This article examines the so-called Bretonism, a cultural and political movement fuelled by Romanticism, Positivism and Proto-Nationalism. Emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, Bretonism took the shape of an historical school devoted to justifying, through of the study of the past, the main elements of its own devotees’ political opinions, namely ideological conservatism, distrust of the liberal-democratic system, and, above all, a national narrative over Brittany, which are to be represented as an ethnic community culturally different from the rest.Key WordsNationalism, regionalism, Britanny, positivism.ResumenEste artículo examina el llamado “Bretonismo”, un movimiento político y cultural alimentado por el Romanticismo, el positivismo y el protonacionalismo. Surgido en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, el Bretonismo tomó la forma de una escuela historiográfica consagrada a justificar, mediante el estudio del pasado, los principales elementos políticos de sus cultivadores, es decir, conservadurismo ideológico, recelos hacia el sistema liberaldemocrático, y por encima de todo, un relato “nacional” sobre Bretaña, que pasará a ser presentada como una comunidad étnica culturalmente diferenciada de todas las demás.Palabras claveNacionalismo, Bretaña, positivismo, romanticismo.

scholarly journals Exchanging Gifts with the Dead

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Boyd Cothran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Historical Revisionism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Justice ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Sociological Concept

This article considers the 1988 dedication of a memorial to United States–Indian violence in far northeastern California to explore the possibilities of historical justice through commemoration andhistorical revisionism. The author explores the anthropological and sociological concept of the gift to expose the limitations of a multicultural marketplace of remembering and forgetting that suffuses moments of purported historical justice-making. Ultimately, the article forwards a critique of liberal multiculturalism's call for inclusion by suggesting that multicultural historical revisionism oftenobscures power relations by offering the gift of equal inclusion within a national narrative. In the place of equivalency, the author argues for the necessity of a multivocal unequivalency thatacknowledges the presence of power in narrations of the past.

Local Roots/Global Routes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Donington
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
London Borough ◽  
The Past

This chapter uses a local lens to challenge, nuance and expand the national narrative of Britain’s involvement with both slavery and abolition. Based on research undertaken as part of a public engagement partnership between the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project and Hackney Museum and Archives, this chapter details the area’s complex and contradictory local histories of participation, abolitionism, resistance and emancipation. It explores the ways in which the different communities that make up the London Borough of Hackney, both in the past and in the present, have been shaped by their experiences of slavery and its legacies. It argues that in bringing slavery home, in telling stories about the past that connect the local to the global, we can reintegrate these histories into the national narrative creating a space to think critically about what it means and what it meant to be British.

Virginia Woolf's Imaginary Museum of the Medieval in ‘The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn’

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-184
Author(s):  
Caroline Marie
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
British Museum ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article shows that the Middle Ages Virginia Woolf imagines in her 1906 short story ‘The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn’ are influenced by the staging of the medieval in late-Victorian museums and reflects late-Victorian medievalism. From the perspective of material culture studies, Woolf's tale reflects the representation and fabrication of the medieval by the British Museum and the South Kensington Museum and shapes a similar narrative of the Middle Ages. Relying on Michel Foucault's definitions of ‘heterotopia’ as well as on Tony Bennett's analysis of Victorian museums, this article argues that Woolf's fictionalisation of the medieval evidences a new, complex temporality of knowledge and consciousness of the past which also defines late-Victorian curatorial philosophy and practices. It analyses each regime of that new temporality: first, the archaeological gaze and its contribution to the grand national narrative via the literary canon and, second, the theatrical gaze, with its focus on spectacularly displayed artefacts, that partakes of an image's mystique. In temporal terms, this results in a tension between the tangible remains of a past clearly separated from the present and the mystical fusion of past and present reinscribing Woolf's poetics of the moment within a sense of history.

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