scholarly journals The future of coal mining history. Migration, cultural memory and the transnational Dutch studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-380
Author(s):  
Marco Prandoni ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mining History

scholarly journals The fiction of History: recalling the past and imagining the future with Caesar at Troy.

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Richard Alston
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site

This essay considers the nature of historical discourse through a consideration of the historical narrative of Lucan’s Pharsalia. The focus is on the manner in which Lucan depicts history as capable of being fictionalised, especially through the operation of political power. The discourses of history make a historical account, but those discourses are not, in Lucan's view, true, but are fictionalised. The key study comes from Caesar at Troy, when Lucan explores the idea of a site (and history) which cannot be understood, but which nevertheless can be employed in a representation of the past. yet, Lucan also alludes to a ‘true history’, which is unrepresentable in his account of Pharsalus, and beyond the scope of the human mind. Lucan’s true history can be read against Benjamin and Tacitus. Lucan offers a framework of history that has the potential to be post-Roman (in that it envisages a world in which there is no Rome), and one in which escapes the frames of cultural memory, both in its fictionalisation and in the dependence of Roman imperial memory on cultural trauma.

Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 088832542110634
Author(s):  
Agata Bachórz ◽  
Fabio Parasecoli
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The West ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Concerns ◽  
Food Media

This article examines the future-oriented use of the culinary past in Poland’s food discourse through a qualitative analysis of popular food media (printed magazines and TV). We analyze how interpretations of food and culinary practices from the past are connected to contemporary debates. We contend that media representations of the culinary past co-create projects of Polish modernization in which diverse voices vie for hegemony by embracing different forms of engagement with the West and by imagining the future shape of the community. We distinguish between a pragmatic and a foodie type of culinary capital and focus on how they differently and at times paradoxically frame cultural memory and tradition. We observe the dynamics of collective memory and oblivion, and assess how interpretations of specific periods in Poland’s past are negotiated in the present through representations of material culture and practices revolving around food, generating not only contrasting evaluations of the past but also diverging economies of the future. Finally, we explore tradition as a set of present-day values, attitudes, and practices that are connected with the past, but respond to current concerns and visions of the future.

Medievalist double consciousness and the production of difference: Medieval bards, cultural memory and nationalist fantasy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Davies
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
English Poet ◽  
Thomas Gray ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter interrogates the relationship between medievalist cultural memory and nationalism in Britain and Europe. Exploring work by the English poet Thomas Gray, the Welsh poet and critic Evan Evans, the Hungarian poet Janos Arany, the Icelandic scholar Grímur Jonsson Thorkelín and the Danish poet, historian and educator Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, this chapter explores how ideas of the medieval past are used to generate ideas of community and exclude some people, ideas and traditions from the future.

Gatekeepers of (Non-)Knowledge: Aleksei Balabanov’s Morphine (2008)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlad Strukov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Organisation ◽  
The Continuum

Balabanov’s Morphine is concerned with cultural memory conceived as a continuum; not as identity but rather subjectivity in construction. The concepts relates to Badiou’s study of subjectivity. It determines existence in a world where the horizon of knowledge is always disappearing and is never available to us in its integrity whereby the subject is barred from the infinite. Different directions and speeds of movement generate the transcendental subject in that the subject is in relation to the variations of the lived. One of such states implies a continuum, or becoming without determination, whilst the other, refers to the imperative to construct knowledge out of the elements of the continuum. Such assemblages, rituals and rites allow the subject to access the ‘beyond’, a different realm, where the elements of the past are positioned towards the future. The transcendence of the subject is coded as an unstoppable flow of imagery—a hallucination—divided into sequences by reiterations and references to the cultural discourse: an introspective vision produces not self-organisation but self-destruction as the subject becomes aware of its own infiniteness. I showcase how Balabanov’s Morphine captures the brutality of such openings and the self-annihilating impact of nothingness.

The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time Regime

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-223
Author(s):  
Aleida Assmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Modern Time ◽  
Entire Spectrum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Regime

This chapter argues for the repair of the modern time regime. It shows that saving the past by means of a “culture of preservation” is itself a central part of Western modernization. However, there is as yet no straight line leading from this compensatory culture of preservation to the entire spectrum of practices, problems, and controversies associated with the “cultures of memory.” Under the paradigm of cultural memory, the past in particular is no longer the exclusive domain of the historian, nor can the use made of it be reduced to the function of a comforting medium of deceleration. The new entanglement of the past with the future—of the space of experience with the horizon of expectation—that characterizes the present time regime has implications, requirements, and effects that are much more far-reaching. New perspectives on and interests in the past now have important roles to play. The modern time regime therefore needs not only compensation, but also repair.

Renewing the coal mining past

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Cornips ◽  
Louis van den Hengel
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Cultural Renewal ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This article examines how inhabitants of Heerlen, a town in the province of Limburg in the southeast of the Netherlands, renew the cultural memory of coal mining in the area through parodic linguistic and cultural practices linked to the (re)articulation of collective local and social identities. Heerlen became a center for the coal mining industry in the Netherlands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The closure of the mines between 1965 and 1974 had devastating consequences for the economic, social, and cultural developments of the area. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in the region’s mining past, creating new momentum for Heerlen in its transition from a struggling former mining area to a city focusing on long-term socio-economic development and cultural innovation. In this context, new practices of cultural memory are emerging through local performances of language and culture that operate to reconstruct Heerlen’s coal mining past through parodic repetition. By discussing two case studies exemplifying the creative ways in which dominant accounts of the mining past are being rearticulated, we explain how the use of parody may serve to undermine the interacting social norms, identities, and hierarchies that have come to shape cultural memories of mining in communities historically defined by working-class and male-dominated labor. The article integrates linguistic and sociolinguistic research, studies of regional history, and theories of parody rooted in contemporary literary criticism and gender studies, to demonstrate the importance of place-bound practices of languageculture as a compelling force of linguistic and socio-cultural renewal.

Research on Allowable Deformation of Highway Influenced by Coal Mining Subsidence

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 1165-1168
Author(s):  
Wei Nan Deng
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Subsidence ◽  
Deformation Index ◽  
The Future ◽  
Coal Mining Subsidence

The paper put forward allowable deformation of highway is the premise of the study on problems of highway influenced by coal mining subsidence. Base on the analysis of correlative regulations and highway characteristics, the research pointed out a certain deformation value is not suitable for judging the safety of highway influenced by coal mining subsidence and the criterion of allowable deformation with considering the structure and the material of highway must be established. Using curvature as the allowable deformation index, The paper derived the criterion formula of the allowable deformation of highway and calculated the allowable deformation interval of common highway in China. The achievement is useful for solving correlative problems in the future.

Feminism, art, the library and the politics of memory

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Griselda Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Future

Questions posed in this short paper are based on thinking back over 30 years of feminist studies in the visual arts and museums. Does the library work for its culture, or sometimes against the grain of its own culture’s amnesia or even repressions? What are the politics of memory in relation to art library practices in terms of registering the critical reworking of knowledge that is associated with feminist critique of institutions, language, disciplines, practices, social relations? How are we to ensure libraries survive as keepers of cultural memory in the era of profitability? What will be lost under these economic pressures in terms of our ability in the future to understand our histories?

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