Memory and far-right historiography: The case of the Christchurch shooter

2021 ◽  
pp. 175069802110447
Author(s):  
Phillip Stenmann Baun
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Far Right ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Memory Practices ◽  
Culture And Communication

This article investigates far-right conceptions of history and memory through the case of Christchurch shooter. Scholarly work on far-right memory practices is still in its infancy, and research into the Christchurch shooter in particular has underplayed this crucial aspect of his ideological drive for violence. By investigating the narrative elements of his historiography, the article argues that far-right extremism taps into a range of historical templates to structure a trajectory of time and historical development that seeks to legitimize present violence in relation to the legacies and exemplary instances of the past as well as historically contingent aspirations for the future. The danger of this memory working is its utility—through the channels of digital culture and communication—in promising to canonize the terrorist as a historicized object in a chronicle of ancient struggle, providing temporalized purpose to his violence in both a retrospective and prospective manner.

scholarly journals Babi Yar and the Nazi Genocide of Roma: Memory Narratives and Memory Practices in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Andrej Kotljarchuk
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
Memory Practices

Abstract Thousands of Roma were killed in Ukraine by the Nazis and auxiliary police on the spot. There are more than 50,000 Roma in today’s Ukraine, represented by second and third generation decendants of the genocide survivors. The discussion on Roma identity cannot be isolated from the memory of the genocide, which makes the struggle over the past a reflexive landmark that mobilizes the Roma movement. About twenty Roma genocide memorials have been erected in Ukraine during last decade, and in 2016 the national memorial of the Roma genocide was opened in Babi Yar. However, scholars do not have a clear picture of memory narratives and memory practices of the Roma genocide in Ukraine. A comprehensive analysis of the contemporary situation is not possible without an examination of the history and memory of the Roma genocide before 1991.

scholarly journals Logic of Appropriateness or Logic of Consequence?  Competing Explanations for the OECD Campaign against  Tax Havens

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Melinda Wood
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Tax Havens ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Tax Information Exchange

<p>This thesis provides an alternative explanation to existing constructivist accounts of the OECD campaign against tax havens. It reinterprets the OECD project through a neoliberal institutionalist lens and offers a different take on each major historical development. It brings the narrative up to date, describing the events of the past two years and explaining the underlying causes in a manner consistent with the neoliberal reinterpretation. It finishes by considering what this account might predict for the future of tax information exchange. The thesis finds that transformative change happens in accordance with state interests rather than with identities and norms. International institutions fundamentally exist to advance the interests of their memberstates and will adapt their goals to reflect changing collective interests. States that are coerced to change their behaviour can be expected to comply only to the extent required to avoid sanctions.</p>

Ezekiel’s Concept of Covenant

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Strong
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Holiness Code ◽  
Important Concept ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Future

Although explicit covenantal language is largely absent from the book of Ezekiel, covenant remained an important concept for how the prophet understood Israel’s relationship with its national deity. Readings of 11:14–21; 14:1–11; 37:15–23; 16:59–63; and 20:4–5 demonstrate that Ezekiel assumed that eternal covenants established by God in the past remained valid and would be remembered in the future, when the nation would be reconstituted. Moreover, the eternal covenants established by God would not be reworked; rather, the people would be changed by their experience of shame in exile. Another covenant that was mentioned during the text’s redaction, the covenant of peace, affirmed that the conflict between Yahweh and Israel has ceased. This chapter accords with recent scholarly work tying Ezekiel to the covenantal stipulations of the Holiness Code (Leviticus 17–26). It distinguishes, however, the concept of covenant found in Ezekiel from that of Jeremiah, adding to recent studies that contrast these two prophets in general.

Why Is the Culture of Our Times Reminiscent of Lot’s Wife? Causes of the Late-Modern Turn to the Past

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 205-221
Author(s):  
Jan Wasiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Working Through ◽  
The Future ◽  
Late Modern

In the first part of the article, the author describes the polymorphic phenomenon of return to the past, which occurs in various areas of culture, social and political, as well as private and family life. Then he points to several key interlocking causes of this phenomenon, such as: working through traumas, democratization of history and memory, compensation of high costs of modernization, uncertainty of the future, searching for an antidote to the progressing identity deficit, commodification of history/memory combined with the emotionalization of the attitude towards the past, decline of the idea of progress, disappearance of utopias and an increase of post-secular tendencies.

scholarly journals Logic of Appropriateness or Logic of Consequence?  Competing Explanations for the OECD Campaign against  Tax Havens

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Melinda Wood
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Tax Havens ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Tax Information Exchange

<p>This thesis provides an alternative explanation to existing constructivist accounts of the OECD campaign against tax havens. It reinterprets the OECD project through a neoliberal institutionalist lens and offers a different take on each major historical development. It brings the narrative up to date, describing the events of the past two years and explaining the underlying causes in a manner consistent with the neoliberal reinterpretation. It finishes by considering what this account might predict for the future of tax information exchange. The thesis finds that transformative change happens in accordance with state interests rather than with identities and norms. International institutions fundamentally exist to advance the interests of their memberstates and will adapt their goals to reflect changing collective interests. States that are coerced to change their behaviour can be expected to comply only to the extent required to avoid sanctions.</p>

scholarly journals Memory images: Holocaust memory in Balkan cinema(s)

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (32) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nevena Daković
Keyword(s):  
Master Narrative ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Holocaust Memory ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hybrid Format ◽  
Manifold Effect

The aim of this paper is to analyse the shift of the representational and narrative paradigms of Holocaust memory in the Balkan films that belong to two genres – of melodrama and historicalfiction. The hybrid format positons the Holocaust (hi)stories – already caught between forgetting and remembrance – on the unstable ground between trauma and nostalgia; between history and memory; or facts and fiction. The “regained visibility of the Holocaust grant us access” to Balkan past and present and oblige us to investigate the convergence of the history and the memory into Holocaust master narrative of the Holocaust.“Bringing the dark past to light” in cinema has manifold effect. First, the Balkan wave of Holocaustfilms, with its mixed generic performances, offers new answers to the traditional issues of, both, the ethics of memory and the ethics of representation. Second, the analysis of five films reveals that the trauma from the past – resisting the closure – has the potential to powerfully resonate in the present day political crises. Re-dressing the trauma of the past, the films present the future violence while fulfilling “the Holocaust dictum ‘never forget’”. Eventually, new representational paradigm gives consistency to the Balkan (hi)stories of the past and coherence to the identity in the present.

scholarly journals Over and Over and Over Again

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Over the last twenty years, reenactment has been appropriated by both contemporary artistic production and art-theoretical discourse, becoming a distinctive strategy to engage with history and memory. As a critical act of repetition, which is never neutral in reactualizing the past, it has established unconventional modes of historicization and narration. Collecting work by artists, scholars, curators, and museum administrators, the volume investigates reenactment's potential for a (re)activation of layered temporal experiences, and its value as an ongoing interpretative and political gesture performed in the present with an eye to the future. Its contributions discuss the mobilization of archives in the struggle for inclusiveness and cultural revisionism; the role of the body in the presentification and rehabilitation of past events and (impermanent) objects; the question of authenticity and originality in artistic practice, art history, as well as in museum collections and conservation practices.

Intergenerational Ministry—a Forty-year Perspective: 1980–2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 506-529
Author(s):  
Holly Catterton Allen ◽  
Jason Brian Santos
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Congregational Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Intergenerational Ministry ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ministry Leaders

This article traces the historical development of the field of intergenerational Christian education and formation over the past forty years with the aim of demonstrating its steady growth in scholarship and ministry and its promise for the future of congregational life and discipleship. The article highlights significant movements, terms, figures, publications, and ministry expressions that surfaced over two twenty-year periods, each part set in the narrative and from the perspective of two different scholars. This article concludes with a brief address of the implications for preparing educational and ministry leaders. Although far from exhaustive, this article offers the reader an abbreviated primer of the past four decades of intergenerational ministry and scholarship.

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