scholarly journals Nunca Más, Nie Wieder: ethical aspects of remembering in the narratives of Ravensbrück. Survivors, their descendants and other persons engaged in memory work = Nunca mas, nie wieder: aspectos éticos del recuerdo en la narrativa de los supervivientes de Rravensbrück, sus descendientes y otras personas involucradas en el trabajo de la memoria

2019 ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Sarka Kadlecova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Shared Memory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Shared Trauma ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Political Work

Resumen: Este artículo trata de la memoria colectiva de un campo de concentración nazi para mujeres. El objetivo de este texto es examinar la posibilidad de la construcción de la memoria compartida por las supervivientes del campo de concentración Ravensbrück, sus descendientes y otras personas, principalmente mujeres, dedicadas al trabajo de memoria en torno a este dominio particular. A partir de la teoría social del trauma de Jeffrey Alexander, se presentarán unos ejemplos del intenso trabajo cultural y político necesario para crear un trauma compartido. Con base en el análisis de los datos creados durante la investigación etnográfica multisitio, el artículo explorará los aspectos éticos del proceso de recordar y la fabricación de un trauma colectivo.Palabras clave: Ravensbrück, teoría social del trauma de Jeffrey Alexander.Abstract: This article deals with collective memory of a women’s concentration camp in Nazi Germany. The objective of this text is to examine the possibility of the construction of a shared memory by survivors of the concentration camp Ravensbrück, their descendants and other persons, mainly women, engaged in the memory work around this particular site of memory. Drawing on Jeffrey Alexander’s social theory of trauma, a number of examples of the intensive cultural and political work necessary for creating a shared trauma will be presented. Based on the data created during multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, the article will explore ethical aspects of the process of remembering and the fabrication of collective trauma.  Keywords: Ravensbrück, Jeffrey Alexander’s social theory of trauma.

scholarly journals Den anden revolution: De arabiske opstande belyst af arabisk postmarxisme

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-92
Author(s):  
Sune Haugbølle
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
General Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Intellectual Traditions

Denne artikel analyserer arabiske marxistiske intellektuelles læsninger af de arabiske opstande siden 2011 og introducerer til arabisk postmarxisme forstået som social teori, der baserer sig på hele den brede familie af marxistiske teorier og traditioner men forholder sig kritisk til den. Artiklen trækker på Alain Badious undersøgelse af begivenhed, situation og spor. For rigtigt at forstå en begivenhed som de arabiske opstandes betydning, må nogen engagere sig i at undersøge dette spor kritisk. Jeg argumenterer, at arabisk postmarxisme repræsenterer en kritisk undersøgelse af et Badiousk spor, der viser tilbage til uafklarede begivenheder i fortiden. Sporet går i retning af tidligere arabiske revolutioner, og de arabiske marxisters deltagelse i dem samt deres tidligere læsninger af forholdet mellem stat, samfund og intellektuelle. Deres erindringsarbejde er således også et politisk arbejde, der søger at forklare, hvordan de arabiske opstande blev muliggjort, og hvordan de adskiller sig fra tidligere revolutionære øjeblikke. Denne analyse viser yderligere, at ikke-vestlige samfunds egne læsninger og intellektuelle traditioner skal tages alvorligt i sammenlignende studier af revolution. Postmarxistisk teori er relevant for revolutioner, fordi den giver redskaber til at analysere det revolutionære subjekt, som Skocpol og andre ignorerede, men som revolutionsteori i dag har indset er af afgørende betydning for forståelsen af sociale revolutioner. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Sune Haugbølle: The Other Revolution: The Arab Uprisings in Light of Arab Post-Marxism This article analyzes Arab Marxist intellectuals and their readings of the Arab uprisings since 2011. In addition, it introduces Arab post-Marxism, or social theory drawing often critically on the broad family of Marxist theory and traditions. The article draws on Alain Badiou’s concepts of situation, event and trace. In order to understand events such as the Arab uprisings, someone must be engaged in examining the trace critically. I argue that Arab post-Marxism represents a critical examination of Badiou’s trace referring back to undigested events in the past. The trace points to earlier Arab revolutions, to the participation of Arab Marxists in them, and to their earlier readings of the relation between state, society and intellectuals. In this way, their memory work constitutes political work seeking to clarify how the Arab uprisings were made possible and how they are different from earlier revolutionary moments. On a general level, this analysis shows that intellectual traditions of non-Western societies and the way they engage their past must be taken seriously in comparative studies of revolution. Post-Marxist theory is relevant for revolutions because it provides tools to analyze the revolutionary subject, which Skocpol and others have largely ignored, but which, as most theorists of revolution theory acknowledge, is crucial for our understanding of social and political revolutions. Keywords: revolution, Arab uprisings, post-Marxism, collective memory, Badiou.

scholarly journals The Construction of Transnational Remembrance in the War Cemeteries of the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Kate Clarke Lemay
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Construction Design ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
The World

In the anniversary years of 2018 and 2019, it is important to take a close look at the war cemeteries commemorating the world war conflicts. These sites are crucial places for sustaining and even creating transnational, collective memory. By studying the memory work the war cemeteries accomplish, scholars have increased their knowledge of and understanding about these driving, foundational power structures. The following essays focus on the construction, design and reception of war cemeteries, and together the essays reveal complex layering of social, political and cultural contexts of these crucial sites of war memory.

Remembering a problematic past: TV mystics, perestroika and the 1990s in post-Soviet media and memory

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Huxtable
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Web Forum

This article examines memories of the TV psychic Anatoly Kashpirovsky, whose TV ‘séances’ were broadcast on Soviet state television in the late-1980s. Based on the results of interviews from Russians and Ukrainians conducted in 2013–2014, a television serial based on the rise of TV mystics in the late-1980s and a web forum devoted to discussion of the serial, this article uses memories of Kashpirovsky in both vernacular and public contexts as a means of understanding the place of perestroika and the 1990s in the post-Soviet historical consciousness. In particular, the article focuses on the continued contestation over the meaning of perestroika and the 1990s in Russian and Ukrainian collective memory and the different interpretative strategies used to explain the past. The article seeks to examine the different forms of memory work taking place in different memory spaces, from the popular, vernacular memories voiced in interviews, to public memories expressed within popular culture.

scholarly journals Historical Dialogues, Collective Memory Work, and the (Dis)continuation of Conflicts

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (33/34) ◽  
pp. 702-728
Author(s):  
Sara Dybris McQuaid ◽  
Henrik Sonne Petersen ◽  
Sara Dybris McQuaid
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Collective Memory Work

scholarly journals The Representation of Cyprus’s Trauma in Andrea Busfield’s Aphrodite’s War: Conflict or Dialogue?

2017 ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Ingrida Eglė Žindžiuvienė
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Transgenerational Trauma ◽  
Trauma Narrative ◽  
National Trauma ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Trauma Fiction

The aim of this article is to examine the representation of the events in Cyprus in the middle and second half of the twentieth century as depicted in Andrea Busfield’s novel Aphrodite’s War (2010). The article discusses the methods and narrative strategies of disclosing collective trauma and considers the fact-fiction dimension, arguing the presence of it in a trauma narrative. Narrative strategies in trauma fiction are discussed and the author’s approach to the restatement of the national trauma is analysed. It is debated whether the novel can be described as a post-trauma testimony and whether the narrative is constructed on unified memory concepts. Postmemory is viewed within the framework of transgenerational trauma and the role of collective memory in the transmission of trauma is emphasised. Based on the ethical charge of the narrative, the reader’s status in the relationship with a trauma novel is questioned.

Collective Memory and Journalism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Bosch
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Visual Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Cultural Sites ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Journalistic Practice

The relationship between the practice and field of journalism and the interdisciplinary field of memory studies is complex and multifaceted. There is a strong link between collective memory production and journalistic practice, based on the proposition that journalists produce first drafts of history by using the past in their reportage. Moreover, the practice of journalism is a key agent of memory work because it serves as one of society’s main mechanisms for recording and remembering, and in doing so helps shape collective memory. Journalism can be seen as a memory text, with journalists constructing news within cultural-interpretive frames according to the cultural environment. Journalism also plays a key role in the production of visual memory and new media, including social media. Journalism is thus a key agent of memory work, providing a space for commentary on institutional and cultural sites of memory construction.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE GRANDMOTHERS OF PLAZA DE MAYO'S MNEMONIC FRAMING*

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-492
Author(s):  
Nicole Iturriaga
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
State Terror ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Framing Strategies ◽  
Political Landscapes

This article illustrates how human rights activists are negotiating post-authoritarian situations via framing strategies that counter the state's narrative of the past, puts state terror on full display, and aids activists in achieving their goals. In this article, I analyze the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo as a successful mnemonic-memory movement that advanced an alternative collective memory of Argentina's last military regime (1976–1983). I specifically focus on their use of memory work and the evolution of their framing approach. I demonstrate how their framing and frame bridging (rights of families, depoliticized science) was an emergent process that materialized across time and alongside emerging technologies, culminating in their overarching “right to identity” frame. Moreover, I analyze how the Grandmothers used these frames to navigate changing political landscapes and obstacles, and to attack social structures maintaining impunity for the regime's crimes. I ultimately argue that these actions, alongside their extensive memory work, have provided them a loud and powerful voice over the collective memory of Argentina's violent past.

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