scholarly journals Functions of Collective Narratives in a Territorial Conflict. The Israeli-Palestinian Case

Dados ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Lobera ◽  
Cristóbal Torres-Albero
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Functional Element ◽  
Territorial Conflict ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACT The various narratives of a conflict play a central role in its development. Not only are they a reflection of the collective memory of the various parties in conflict, but also a functional element in its dynamics. In the case of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, data show that each side’s main narratives are fairly stable over time, and they possess significant magnitudes – over two thirds of their publics, in both cases. This article analyses the use of narratives in the dynamics of the conflict, which affects both the cognitive and emotional dimensions of the public’s worldview on both sides. We draw ten main functions of collective narratives in the conflict. We discuss that, although a transformation of narratives in the conflict is required for its resolution, both groups will face resistance associated with the functionality of the narratives during this process.

Autobiographical Memory and Identities in Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 373-390
Author(s):  
Roy Suddaby ◽  
Majken Schultz ◽  
Trevor Israelsen
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Organizational Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life Narrative ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ongoing Effort ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
Autonoetic Consciousness ◽  
Over Time

Current theories of identity in organizations assume and valorize stability of identity over time. In this chapter the authors challenge this assumption by introducing contemporary understandings of the fluidity of time in the construction of autobiographical memory. They argue that, both in individual and organizational memory, narrative constructions of the self fluidly incorporate episodes from the past, present, and future in an ongoing effort to create a coherent autobiography. They elaborate the construct of autobiographical memory as constituted by autonoetic consciousness, life narrative, and collective memory and discuss the implications for identities in organizations.

scholarly journals A CONSTRUÇÃO IMAGÉTICA BRASILEIRA: O ANJO DA HISTÓRIA E A RESSIGNIFICAÇÃO DO OLHAR ESTRANGEIRO NO BRASIL

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Daniele Cristina Liberato de Oliveira ◽  
Giselle Liberato Caetano de Souza
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Brazilian History ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

ResumoO objetivo deste trabalho é analisar Anjo da História, de Herbert de Paz, considerando elementos estéticos e as possibilidades de relação com uma produção cultural brasileira, ressignificada ao longo do tempo. A obra foi exposta na galeria do Centro Municipal de Artes Hélio Oiticica, pela exposição formAÇÃO 2016. Herbert de Paz é de origem de El Salvador e constrói sua obra dialogando a forma como ele começa a compreender a história brasileira e os conflitos contemporâneos por ele vivenciados, sendo, portanto, um olhar do estrangeiro para o Brasil. Neste sentido, este presente trabalho relaciona elementos da obra com possíveis interpretações de construção de memória coletiva, da história brasileira e da reprodutibilidade imagética como forma de pertencimento e reconhecimento da cultura de um povo.AbstractThe aim of this work is to analyze Angel of History, by Herbert de Paz, considering aesthetic elements and the possibilities of relationship with a Brazilian cultural production, resignificance over time. The work was exhibited in the gallery of the Municipal Arts Center Hélio Oiticica, through the exhibition formACTION 2016. Herbert de Paz is from El Salvador and builds his work by dialoguing the way he begins to understand Brazilian history and the contemporary conflicts he experienced , therefore, being a look from abroad to Brazil. In this sense, this present work relates elements of the work with possible interpretations of building collective memory, Brazilian history and imagery reproducibility as a way of belonging and recognizing the culture of a people.

scholarly journals The Lemba - ‘angel-stars’, ngoma lungundu and ancestors

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdel le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Israelite Religion ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Black Jews ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Formative Years

Hendel (2004) states that “the remembered past is the material with which biblical Israel constructed its identity as a people, a religion, and a culture. It is a mixture of history, collective memory, folklore, and literary brilliance. In Israel’s formative years, these memories circulated orally in the context of family and tribe. Over time they came to be crystallized [mainly] in various written texts” (my insertion). The experiential dimension of religion of ancient Israel and that of the Lemba (the so-called ‘Black “Jews” of Southern Africa’ and other African tribes) is expressed orally and textually, but also in art. It is in no small part also created by them, as they formulate new or altered conceptions of the sacred past. Guidance by stars, the ancestors and the ngoma lungundu (sacred drum of the ancestors) play a major role in the expression of Lemba and early Israelite religion, culture and art.

scholarly journals How fleeting is fame? Collective memory for popular music

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Spivack ◽  
Sara Jordan Philibotte ◽  
Nathaniel Hugo Spilka ◽  
Ian Passman ◽  
Pascal Wallisch
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Over Time

In this paper, we investigated the collective memory for popular music. To assess how well number-one hits are recognized over time, we randomly selected top songs fromthe last 76 years and presented them to a large sample of mostly millennial participants. In response to hearing each selection, participants were prompted to indicate whether they recognized each song. We found three distinct phases in collective memory: a steep linear drop-off in recognition for the music from this millennium, a stable plateau from the 1960s to the 1990s, and a further but more gradual drop-off for music from the 1940s and 1950s.More than half of recognition variability between songs can be accounted for by exposure as measured by Spotify play counts. We conclude that in the musical realm, fame is fleeting - but perhaps not as fleeting as previously suggested.

scholarly journals Saberes, fazeres e memória coletiva: a trajetória social de barbeiros e barbeiras da região central de Porto Alegre (RS)

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Paulo De Miranda Araújo Soares
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The Social ◽  
Knowledge Practice ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
The City ◽  
Everyday Knowledge ◽  
Over Time

A partir das memórias de barbeiros e barbeiras que trabalham no Centro de Porto Alegre (RS), pretendo problematizar os saberes e fazeres deste ofício, examinando as redes sociais de ingresso na profissão e a trajetória social ligada ao trabalho dos interlocutores. Assim, este trabalho procura articular as artes de fazer de trabalhadores manuais com a memória de um centro urbano que se transforma ao longo do tempo, incidindo em uma discussão sobre industrialização, urbanização e seus impactos sobre saberes e fazeres de profissões consideradas tradicionais como a de barbeiro. A pesquisa em questão, que deu origem à minha dissertação de mestrado, privilegia as narrativas dos interlocutores sobre suas experiências na cidade e a observação de suas práticas, gestos e saberes cotidianos relacionados ao seu trabalho. Palavras chave: Barbeiros. Saberes e fazeres. Trajetórias de trabalho.   Knowledge, practice and collective memory: the social trajectories of barbers in downtown Porto Alegre (RS)   Abstract  By considering the memoirs of barbers working in downtown Porto Alegre (RS), I intend to discuss the knowledge and practice of this craft, examining the social networks and the profession social trajectories linked to the work of the interlocutors. Thus, this paper seeks to articulate the handcraft manual labor with the memory of a town that turns over time, focusing on a discussion of industrialization, urbanization and its impacts on knowledge and practice of traditional occupations as the barbers. The research in question, which led to my master’s degree, focuses on the narratives of the speakers about their experiences in the city and in the observation of their practices, gestures and everyday knowledge related to their work. Keywords: Barbers. Practical knowledge. Work trajectories. 

An Early Moment in the Discourse of “Terrorism:” Reflections on a Tale from Marco Polo

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Lincoln
Keyword(s):  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Marco Polo ◽  
Specific Interests ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Anonymous Agents

My goal in this paper is to revisit a classic text that raises the most contemporary of issues: Marco Polo's stereotyped, highly influential, and highly prejudicial description of the “Old Man of the Mountain,” a text of virtually mythic status and power. Having invoked the category of “myth,” however, in a context where it is not commonly applied, it is useful to indicate how I use this term and why it seems appropriate. To begin, I would reject three widely accepted notions. First, myths are not sacred narratives. Although many myths claim sacred status, in this they misrecognize their own nature, for they are human stories, like any other. They simply make more exaggerated claims to a more elevated kind of authority. Second, myths are not collective narratives or the speech of any group as a whole. Rather, they are stories that are told and retold in countless variants. Often the authorship of these variants is unacknowledged, forgotten, or deliberately hidden, but in its details each variant advances the specific interests of those responsible for its production, revision, and circulation. These anonymous agents and absent authors misrepresent themselves—and those for whom they speak—as the group as a whole. Third, myths are neither false stories, nor true, but simply stories that claim to speak with authority about issues of deep importance. Sometimes these claims succeed and sometimes they fail, and the same story can change its status over time from myth to fable and back again, since such status is a function of reception.

Memory Deviants

2017 ◽  
pp. 145-185
Author(s):  
Robyn Autry
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Chapter 4 asks, “What can deviant forms of remembering tell us about the normative project of collective remembrance?” This chapter draws on newspaper articles, blogs, and interviews to explore the world of “memory deviants” who refuse to engage in ‘socially responsible” forms of remembering and the identity constructions implicit in them. This chapter investigates the limits of constructing a consensus-driven collective memory through the lens of dissenting voices, particularly those of the people meant to identify with revised collective narratives.

scholarly journals Living up to the past? Ideological sensemaking in organizational transition

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mairi Maclean ◽  
Charles Harvey ◽  
John A. A. Sillince ◽  
Benjamin D. Golant
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Organizational History ◽  
Organizational Transition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Over Time

This article builds upon archival and oral-history research on organizational change at Procter & Gamble from 1930 to 2000, focusing on periods of transition. It examines historical narrative as a vehicle for ideological sensemaking by top managers. Our empirical analysis sheds light on continuities in the narratives they offer, through which the past emerges as a recurrent lever of strategic manoeuvres and re-orientations. This reveals that while organizational history is sometimes regarded as a strategic asset or intrinsic part of collective memory, it is also re-enacted as a shared heritage, implying responsibilities. Executives (re)interpret the past and author the future, maintaining the historical narrative while using interpellation to ensure ideological consistency over time. The interpellative power of rhetorical narrative helps to recast organizational members as participants in an ongoing drama. In this way executives claim their legitimate right to initiate and manage organizational transition.

Facts or Fables?

2019 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-218
Author(s):  
Hossein Modarressi
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Over Time

AbstractMuslim scholars maintain that the report of a text or event could be considered as indisputably true if it has been confirmed by the collective historical memory of the community throughout the ages and down the generations. Some suggested that if the authority of historical memory came into doubt, the entire edifice of religion and history would collapse as both were firmly based on historical memory. They were however aware of the possibility that an unconscious, spontaneous coordination of minds due to a shared feeling of a people might create a common assumption that turns a statement or event into a common knowledge for future generations and builds what we know as historical memory. They knew that stories are not fixed but can change over time, and that people might add additional material including their own interpretation of an event to their observation and thus form a collective memory that may have no truth embedded in it. They knew that the first hearing of an event or a report might influence the mind in such a way that the mind always remembered the event or report within that original understanding. So, how to prove that a piece of historical memory was really true and that it was not merely hearsay that people at the time happened to believe in, or wanted to believe in, and narrated to one another, passing it down from generation to generation? What is the line between fact and rumor and when does historical memory represent the truth, that is, the actual occurrence of an event or utterance of a statement? A number of requirements have been suggested in the Islamic tradition to narrow down the scope of error and increase the credibility of a piece of historical memory as representative of the actual occurrence of an alleged fact. This paper attempts to present those suggestions.

The unanchored past: Three modes of collective memory

2019 ◽  
pp. 175069801989469
Author(s):  
Paul O’Connor
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Over Time

All forms of collective memory embody attempts at meaning-making - efforts to integrate experience and provide a coherent foundation for individual and collective identities. However, different modes of collective memory have different meaning-making potentials. In this article, I will assess three modes of remembering, namely folk, commemorative and mediatised memory, from the perspective of how they generate integrative meaning. Each of these modes of remembrance will be examined through the prism of a case study examining the nature of the memories associated with a specific lieux de memoire. I will suggest that over time, memory becomes progressively ‘unanchored’ from localised contexts due to its increasing technological and institutional mediation and that this has important implications for the depth and kind of meaning it provides.

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