The Fiend and its Followers

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-76
Author(s):  
David Evans-Powell ◽  
David Evans-Powell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Close Study ◽  
The Witch ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter will examine the relationship between the past and the present within the film through a close assessment of the behaviour of the fiend, in particular the relationship between the fiend and the landscape. The chapter will consider the historical and cultural attitudes towards cultural memory and the remembrance or forgetting of unwelcome aspects of the past. The chapter will also place the film into its contemporary screen context through a survey of other British screen texts concerned with malign revenants that upset the present when unearthed or discovered. The chapter will continue by considering the nature of the fiend and the consequences of its influence through a detailed examination of the character of Angel Blake and the abject. The chapter will also make a close study of the influence of Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe on the film.

Art, Myth and Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-206
Author(s):  
Alessandra Campoli
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between collective and cultural memory, myth, and contemporary art practice. Artists in the past have relied on the power of myth to visually speak to their audience, re-presenting myths in an illusionistic way. Today art is not conventionally telling stories anymore and is disentangled from the need for mimesis. How has the relation between art and myth changed outside the framework of representational art? Is the connection between myth and collective and cultural memory used in contemporary art practice? How do art and myth intersect today?

The Dynamics of Voters’ Left/Right Identification: The Role of Economic and Cultural Attitudes

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. de Vries ◽  
Armen Hakhverdian ◽  
Bram Lancee
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Attitudes

The mobilization of culturally rooted issues has altered political competition throughout Western Europe. This article analyzes to what extent the mobilization of immigration issues has affected how people identify with politics. Specifically, it analyzes whether voters’ left/right self-identifications over the past 30 years increasingly correspond to cultural rather than economic attitudes. This study uses longitudinal data from the Netherlands between 1980 and 2006 to demonstrate that as time progresses, voters’ left/right self-placements are indeed more strongly determined by anti-immigrant attitudes than by attitudes towards redistribution.These findings show that the issue basis of left/right identification is dynamic in nature and responsive to changes in the political environment.

Authoritarianism in West European Electorates

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-73
Author(s):  
Erik R. Tillman
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Important Conclusion ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
West European

This chapter engages in a descriptive analysis of authoritarianism in Western Europe and its relationship to economic, social, and political attitudes. It considers the definition of authoritarianism and how it is distinct from related concepts such as conservatism. The descriptive analysis addresses several important questions. First, it examines the distribution of authoritarianism in West European societies, along with its relationship to education, age, and gender. Then, it examines the relationship between authoritarianism and socio-cultural, political, and economic attitudes. The analysis finds that authoritarianism is closely related to socio-cultural attitudes on matters such as acceptance of same-sex marriage, endorsement of traditional gender roles, immigration, and ethnocentrism. Authoritarianism also correlates with attitudes towards democracy and political trust. However, high authoritarians are not meaningfully different from low authoritarians on economic questions. These findings point to an important conclusion for this book’s argument. Because high authoritarians vary from low authoritarians most on socio-cultural attitudes, it is likely that the factors driving the worldview issue are socio-cultural rather than economic in nature.

scholarly journals The Changing Dynamics of Religion and National Identity: Greece and the Republic of Ireland in a Comparative Perspective

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Halikiopoulou
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWhereas most of Western Europe experienced a separation between the political and religious spheres in the past decades, in Greece and the Republic of Ireland the process of secularisation has been inhibited due to close association between religion and national identity. This paper examines these countries in a comparative perspective and argues that the process of secularisation in Ireland has been explicitly linked to a shift in national identity, a development which has not taken place in Greece. The relationship between religion and national identity is contingent on two factors: internally, the degree in which a church obstructs the modernisation process and, externally, the level of threat perceptions.

Growth and Institutional Change: The Influence of the Spanish Regionalisation Process on Economic Performance

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Rodríguez-Pose
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Relative Growth ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between institutional change and economic growth has been attracting great attention in recent years. However, despite some notable exceptions, researchers have been wary to approach this topic empirically. This paper represents an empirical attempt to try to unravel the impact on economic performance of what has been one of the most significant processes of institutional change in Western Europe in the past few decades—the regionalisation process—by taking the case of Spain, one of the countries where the shift from a highly centralised to a decentralised structure has been most profound. Results show that, at least in the early stages, the emergence of the Spanish regional state has had slightly beneficial effects on the relative growth performance of regions achieving the greatest level of autonomy when compared with their growth rates in the high point of Spanish centralism. Nevertheless, it is still too early to assert whether this positive influence will be a long-lasting one or can be attributed mainly to the dynamics of institutional change and, thus, will wane with time.

scholarly journals As voces dos recordos: memoria oral, pasado traumático e novela na Galiza actual

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Diego Rivadulla Costa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Formal Point

Voices of memories: Oral memory, traumatic past and the novel in contemporary GaliciaThe fictionalisation of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism in the Galician novel has experienced a significant evolution from a thematic and formal point of view. This evolution has been greatly influenced by the memory boom since the beginning of the 21st century, both in Galicia and the rest of Spain. Therefore, exploring the contemporary Galician narrative corpus requires an interdisciplinary approach to address not only the literary representations of history and memory, but also the functions acquired by those narratives in connection with the context as well as the cultural memory of the Galician people. This paper focuses on the relationship between memory and orality in some of these texts in order to analyse how oral memory emerges in the novel as a form of persistence of the past in current times. This oral memory becomes a key element in many of these narratives and faces a deliberate collective amnesia and the reluctance to remember, acting as a space for resistance that connects the past and present in the texts.

Cultures of Commemoration

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Usa ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Key Questions

This book offers a comparative approach to the study of the commemoration of war. It draws together a set of contributions that combine to produce a considered approach to the changes and continuities that marked the ways in which war, and in particular the war dead, were commemorated and remembered. Chapters explore the commemorative practices of Ancient Greece and Rome, and investigate how those practices have been reflected, adapted and abandoned in more recent Western cultures, from eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Britain, Germany and the USA. The book concentrates on monuments set up by communities, from local communities to the state, but it also considers the role of ‘private’ memorials, since the interaction between private or more personalised monuments and the commemoration of the war dead by the community often lies at the heart of commemorative practices. It furthermore explores the relationship between memory and forgetting, in the context of the longer-term idea of cultural memory. Key questions addressed by the book include: What importance does such commemoration have for the cultures that continue to live with the legacies of the commemorative actions of the recent and distant past? How is the commemoration of the war dead of the past not only used but reused? The book demonstrates that our own understanding of the treatment of the war dead has absorbed and reinterpreted the treatments already developed by past societies.

Body and Mind in Euskara: Contrasting 'dialogic' and 'monologic' subjectivities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roslyn M Frank
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Cognitive Frames ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bilingual Speakers ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Way

It is well recognized that the Basque language represents the most archaic linguistic stratum of Western Europe. As such it provides a fertile ground for investigating the way that indigenous cognitive frames of perception, abundantly manifest in lexical and morpho-syntactic structures of Euskara, have been modified over time by contact with Western frames of understanding and cultural conceptualizations. During the past hundred years large numbers of Basque speakers have ceased being monolingual and become bilingual speakers in Spanish or French and the resulting contacts between the two cognitive frames of reference have resulted in mixed usages, speakers who alternate between the indigenous model and the contact model. This alternation is especially prevalent in terms of the way that physical sensations are perceived and portrayed, that is, the way that the relationship between 'body' and 'mind' is represented linguistically. The indigenous frames are congruent with a conceptualization of self and selfhood defined as 'dialogic subjectivity' whereas the contact frames are represented by a kind of 'monologic subjectivity'. These contrasting frames are discussed and analyzed using concrete linguistic examples drawn from contemporary usage as well as historically attested sources.

scholarly journals Introduction: Cultural Memory, the Past and the Static of the Present

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Jane Marie Law
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
The Many ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Relationship

Ithaca, New York, September 2007 “The past is not dead. In fact, it is not even past.”WILLIAM FAULKNER The burgeoning field of study loosely known as “cultural memory studies” fills a strange gap between more traditional historiography and the anthropology of memory. Historiography in the more traditional sense embraces the stance that the past is knowable, verifiable to the extent that we have reliable evidence, and retrievable to some extent. It concerns itself with what happened in the past (and the many complications of knowing that). Cultural memory studies, on the other hand, address what Paul Ricoeur so aptly labeled “the mnemonic phenomenon,” the dialogical process through which collectivities recall the past in light of present concerns that arein part shaped by this very past that is being recalled and refashioned in the present. For the scholar of cultural memory, the object of study is not the past, but the many projects memory undertakes: healing, denial, revision, invention, recreation and re-creation, forgetting. What is the relationship between history and memory? What should it be? ...

Introduction to Special Issue

2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Jeroen de Ridder
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
The Past ◽  
Gradual Disappearance ◽  
The Relationship

Discussions about the relationship between science and religion have never been absent from the public arena, but they seem to have made something of a comeback in the past decade or two. It is hard to say what accounts for such large-scale developments in society. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it has become increasingly clear that the secularization thesis, i.e., the claim that the modernization and rationalization of societies goes hand in hand with the gradual disappearance of religion, must be put to rest at the graveyard of disconfirmed sociological predictions. Religion is here to stay, it now appears. Thoroughly secularized societies like those we find in Western Europe may be exceptional rather than exemplary.

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