Troubling Memories of Colonialism

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-46
Author(s):  
Erin Twohig
Keyword(s):  
Independent School ◽  
National History ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
French Education

This chapter considers a transformational moment in Algerian history: the first days of the independent school, when students could look forward to studying their own national history and literature. One of the primary preoccupations of novels in French and Arabic that depict this moment was how the school would contend with the memory of the most controversial and taboo aspects of colonialism. Official governmental discourse depicted the Arabized school as a “clean slate” that would fully reject French influence, yet many novels argue for the classroom as a space to renegotiate, rather than erase, the history of French education in Algeria. Maïssa Bey’s Bleu blanc vert (Blue white green) describes the deleterious effects of memory erasure on a generation of young French-educated students, while Abdelhamid Benhedouga’s Nihayat al-ams (The End of Yesterday) features the debate over harkis (Algerians who collaborated with the French) and their place in the classroom. The discussion of memory in these novels forms part of a larger debate about the role of literature in preserving the memories suppressed by the school.

Plot and Theme in the Book of Ruth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Andrew Dearman
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
National History ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town

This chapter explores plot and theme in the book of Ruth as an example of narrative analysis. The book is identified as a short story with a dilemma facing the family of Elimelech from the town of Bethlehem and the tribe of Judah. The family history of Elimelech and the role of the Moabite Ruth in it are examined first as a self-contained narrative and then in the context of Israel’s national history. The family dilemma is resolved with the birth of an heir for the family of Elimelech and the contribution of the family to the tribe of Judah to Israel’s national storyline is further revealed in the kingship of David, a descendant of Elimelech and Ruth.

scholarly journals KAZAKH BATYRY BECOMING AN EXAMPLE OF COURAGE AND HEROISM

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Sagatova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
National History ◽  
Native Land ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cognitive Foundations ◽  
Independent Country ◽  
The Way

Today our independent country is following the path of self-development, paying attention to the cognitive foundations and roots of our national history. The beginning of the striving for the realization of great goals - reveals its essence in connection with the study of the history of the country, native land. Having analyzed the past history, the author in his article, referring to the merit and activities of great personalities who have left a bright mark and contributed to great historical achievements, focuses on the role of their worldview. This marked the beginning of the study of the personality of Kazakh batyrs, who were messengers of spirit and honor on the way to the unity of our country, an example of courage and heroism - an example of the steppe.

Indigenous Medicine and Nation-Building

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Edward Chauca
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Indigenous Medicine ◽  
National History ◽  
National Medical ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses the role of Andean culture in Peruvian physician Hermilio Valdizán’s project of creating and disseminating a national medical history in the early twentieth century. Valdizán’s interest in indigenous medicine and its healing treatments emerged as a critique of certain European intellectuals and physicians who suggested that people in the Americas were intrinsically inferior and unhealthy. Through the use of medical literature, crónicas de indias, literary fiction, newspapers, dictionaries, and pre-colonial pottery, Valdizán defended indigenous peoples’ intellectual capability, emphasizing how they categorized mental illnesses and their treatments. His ground-breaking research was the first attempt to insert traditional Andean medicine into the national history of medicine and mental health.

scholarly journals Sentidos de nación, reflexión pedagógica en el cambio de guion en el Museo Histórico Nacional de Chile

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Correa Serrano ◽  
Macarena Ponce de León
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Military History ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National History ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Museums ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Male

This article, accompanied by the video of the temporary exhibition of the Museo Histórico Nacional de Chile, MHC (National Historical Museum of Chile), called “Sinopsis, sentidos de nación” (Synopsis, senses of the nation), reflects upon the challenges that a national history museum faces in the 21st century. This museum, created in 1911, still exhibits a story almost exclusively focused on the feat of the Nation-state and groups of power; an urban, male and military history, which ignores the historical character of minorities. Today, this historical construction results in the difficulty that national history museums, such as the Chilean one, have in transforming themselves into spaces for public dialogue about the past. The temporary exhibition of the MHN “Sinopsis, sentidos de nación”, seeks to advance towards new museological proposals that incorporate this reflection. To achieve this, it proposes a temporary journey on the different senses of belonging in the history of Chile. While the video takes us on a tour of the exhibition, this article seeks to clarify the declaration of intention of its museological and museographic approach in educational, narrative and political terms, with the aim of answering pedagogical questions about the role of a museum with a national vocation and historical dedication, as well as to incorporate minorities in an inclusive and intersectional perspective.

scholarly journals The problem of unification of the Romanian principalities in 1859 in Romanian historiography

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Kristina V. Tsurkan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Russian Foreign Policy ◽  
National History ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Paris Convention

The study aims to describe one of the key and crucial events in the national history of modern Romania from the Romanian historiography's perspective. The author analyses the creation of a unitary state as a result of the unification of the Romanian Principalities of Moldova and Wallachia in 1859 under the leadership of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, who was elected as the ruler in each of those regions. This research provides valuable information on the issue of the Romania-Russia relations in the period of 1858–1862, when according to the Paris Convention of 7/19 August 1858 objective external conditions were created not only for the unification of the Romanian principalities, but also for the administrative reorganization and expansion of independence of the unitary Romanian state. The unification of the Romanian principalities, which in foreign policy terms was accompanied by a clash of interests of major powers (the Austrian, Ottoman, Russian Empires, Great Britain, and France), took place in those specific conditions that were not suitable for Russia's positions in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans. Nevertheless, the historiography does not question the role of Russian foreign policy as a factor that contributed to the international recognition of the young Romanian state, as well as the significance of the diplomatic activities of the Russian consuls in Bucharest and Jassy. That is why the introduction of Russian diplomatic reports that reflect the attitude of Russian consuls to Prince Cuza's policy and their connection with the Romanian elite is still a crucial task for historiography.

scholarly journals R. PLEČKAITIS IR BALTARUSIŠKOJI TAUTINĖS FILOSOFIJOSISTORIJOS TYRIMŲ TRADICIJA

Problemos ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Valery Yevarouski
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
National History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Post Soviet Period

Straipsnyje analizuojama dviejų filosofijos istorikų – Romano Plečkaičio ir Alfredo Maikhrovichiaus – vaidmuo plėtojant Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos filosofinę tradiciją. Nacionalinės filosofijos tradicija kaip tyrimų sritis buvo viena iš slaptos rezistencijos formų sovietmečiu.Posovietiniu laikotarpiu tautos filosofija tapo vienu svarbiausių stulpų, kuriais rėmėsi tautinis atgimimas. Šiuo požiūriu Plečkaičio ir Maikhrovichiaus, kaip mąstytojų, istorikų, grindusių Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos filosofinę tradiciją, poveikis savo krašto tautinės kultūros plėtrai ir yra aptariamas šiame straipsnyje. Visų pirma, analizuojant nacionalinės kultūros vystymąsi, kreipiamas dėmesys į Lietuvos ir Baltarusijos filosofinių diskursų interferenciją bei nacionalinių filosofijos istorijų genealoginę tradiciją. Daroma išvada, kad mūsų regiono intelektinė dinamika demonstruoja ir mokslininius, ir ideologinius veiksnius.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: Lietuvos filosofija, Baltarusijos filosofija, tautinės kultūros paveldas, Plečkaitis, Maikhrovich.R. Plečkaitis and Belarusian Tradition of Studies in the National History of PhilosophyValery Yevarouski   SummaryThe article analyses the role of two historians of philosophy – Romanas Plečkaitis and Alfred Maikhrovich – in the philosophical traditions of Lithuania and Belarus. The history of national philosophy as a field of knowledge was one of the legal forms of mimicry of the national resistance in Soviet times. In post-Soviet period, national philosophy became one of the important pillars of the national revival. From this point of view the impact of Plečkaitis and Maikhrovich as the founders of the Lithuanian and Belarusian philosophical traditions on the development of national culture of their countries is considered through the interference of the Belarusian and Lithuanian philosophical discourses or the genealogical tradition of the national history of philosophy. It means that the dynamic of the intellectual culture of our region must simultaneously have both the scientific and ideological factors.Keywords: Lithuanian philosophy, Belarusian philosophy, national cultural heritage, Plečkaitis, Maikhrovich.8px;"> 

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

The role of a family history of adenocarcinomas in patients with Barrett oesophagus

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A442-A442
Author(s):  
P TSIBOURIS ◽  
M HENDRICKSE ◽  
P ISAACS
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Barrett Oesophagus

Protective Factors and Suicidality in Members of Arab Kindred

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Hamdan ◽  
Nadine Melhem ◽  
Israel Orbach ◽  
Ilana Farbstein ◽  
Mohammad El-Haib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Composite International Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Suicidal Risk ◽  
Arab Population ◽  
Psychiatric Interview ◽  
History Of

Background: Relatively little is known about the role of protective factors in an Arab population in the presence of suicidal risk factors. Aims: To examine the role of protective factors in a subsample of in large Arab Kindred participants in the presence of suicidal risk factors. Methods: We assessed protective and risk factors in a sample of 64 participants (16 suicidal and 48 nonsuicidal) between 15 and 55 years of age, using a comprehensive structured psychiatric interview, the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), self-reported depression, anxiety, hopelessness, impulsivity, hostility, and suicidal behavior in first-degree and second-relatives. We also used the Religiosity Questionnaire and suicide attitude (SUIATT) and multidimensional perceived support scale. Results: Suicidal as opposed to nonsuicidal participants were more likely to have a lifetime history of major depressive disorder (MDD) (68.8% vs. 22.9% χ2 = 11.17, p = .001), an anxiety disorder (87.5% vs. 22.9, χ2 = 21.02, p < .001), or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (25% vs. 0.0%, Fisher’s, p = .003). Individuals who are otherwise at high risk for suicidality have a much lower risk when they experience higher perceived social support (3.31 ± 1.36 vs. 4.96 ± 1.40, t = 4.10, df = 62, p < .001), and they have the view that suicide is somehow unacceptable (1.83 ± .10 vs. 1.89 ± .07, t = 2.76, df = 60, p = .008). Conclusions: Taken together with other studies, these data suggest that the augmentation of protective factors could play a very important role in the prevention of incidental and recurrent suicidal behavior in Arab populations, where suicidal behavior in increasing rapidly.

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