The right to historical truth and historical memory versus historical revisionism and denialism

2017 ◽  
pp. 136-150
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Revisionism ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Right

The Specter of the Past: Reconstructing Conservative Historical Memory in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-362
Author(s):  
Myungji Yang
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
New Right ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

Through the case of the New Right movement in South Korea in the early 2000s, this article explores how history has become a battleground on which the Right tried to regain its political legitimacy in the postauthoritarian context. Analyzing disputes over historiography in recent decades, this article argues that conservative intellectuals—academics, journalists, and writers—play a pivotal role in constructing conservative historical narratives and building an identity for right-wing movements. By contesting what they viewed as “distorted” leftist views and promoting national pride, New Right intellectuals positioned themselves as the guardians of “liberal democracy” in the Republic of Korea. Existing studies of the Far Right pay little attention to intellectual circles and their engagement in civil society. By examining how right-wing intellectuals appropriated the past and shaped triumphalist national imagery, this study aims to better understand the dynamics of ideational contestation and knowledge production in Far Right activism.

scholarly journals SESUDAH 50 TAHUN KITA HARUS BERANI MENGHADAP APA YANG TERJADI

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 332
Author(s):  
Frans Magnis Suseno
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Historical Truth

The author gives a personal account of the 1965/1966 mass slaughter of so-called communists in central Java where he was living at the time, and more generally in Sumatra, Java and Bali. He continues with a detailed analysis. He then calls for fellow Indonesians to face up to the truth of the massacre, which until now has been erased from the collective historical memory of the nation. Kata-kata kunci: historical truth, Indonesian Communist Party, General Suharto, Accepting Responsibility, Reconciliation.

scholarly journals Student of a pedagogical institute of Donbass: cultural identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
С.А. Кочетова
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Pedagogical Institute ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Right

Автор представляет опыт культурно-просветительской работы в Горловском институте иностранных языков, направленной на повышение уровня культуры каждого студента, создания культуроразвивающей среды, моды на интеллект и образование в условиях преодоления разрыва между низовой культурой и духовностью русской классической литературы, между ориентацией на переписывание истории и сохранением традиций исторической памяти, между навязыванием в течение десятилетий русскому Донбассу самоощущения маргинальности и отстаиванием права на особый исторический путь жителей Донецкого края. Культурная идентичность студенчества Донбасса отражает процесс единения молодежи в условиях духовных испытаний, создание общности, способной противостоять идее разобщенности и индивидуально-эгоистического, потребительского отношения к окружающим. The article presents the experience of cultural and educational work at the Gorlovka Institute of Foreign Languages that aims at raising students’ level of culture and forming cultural environment, creating a fashion for the intelligence and education. That is to bridge a gap between the grassroots culture and the spirituality of Russian classical literature, between the orientation to rewrite history and the preservation of traditions of historical memory; between imposing for decades on Russian Donbass the feeling of marginality and defending the right to a special historical path of the inhabitants of the Donetsk region. The cultural identity of the Donbass students embodies the reflection of the process of youth unity in the context of spiritual trials, the creation of a community capable of opposing the idea of disunity to individual and selfish consumerism towards others.

scholarly journals Pragmatism and Reconciliation: Czech-German Political Relations, 1989 – 1997

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sarah Bracey
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Legal Argumentation ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Right

<p>This thesis charts the process of Czech-German political reconciliation between the years 1989 and 1997 asking, broadly, how Czech and German government representatives arrived at the 1997 Declaration on Mutual Relations and their Future Development. The argument focuses on two failed approaches to reconciliation. First, the search for historical truth in the belief that a shared normative assessment would itself dictate the necessary political and legal action, and second, the resort to legal argumentation in the context of international law. In 1989-1990, the foreign policy agendas of both Czechoslovak and German governments prioritised the speedy harmonisation of relations in a spirit of goodwill and optimism. However, a series of seemingly intractable legal disputes arose. Firstly, concerning calls for German compensation for Czech victims of Nazism, and secondly, calls from within the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft, an organisation of German expellees, for the restitution of property and the right of return, supported by the German federal government. Both the Czechoslovak (later Czech) and German governments simultaneously utilised two competing legal paradigms reflecting the jurisprudential schools of legal positivism and natural law theory to both support their own arguments and refute those of the other, exhibiting a striking symmetry of selfinterested bias. Czech and German representatives disputed the legal status of the Munich Agreement of 1938 (by which the Third Reich partitioned Czechoslovakia), and of the Beneš Decrees of 1945 (collectively sanctioning the deprivation of citizenship and expropriation of Sudeten German property). Their differing interpretations had implications either strengthening or undermining the Sudeten German restitution claim in the 1990s. Neither government sufficiently abided by the intellectual ground rules of a necessarily rational process of inter-state negotiation, preventing a legal resolution. Analysing Czech-German relations through the lens of ‘failed approaches’ highlights the triumph of pragmatism, with surprisingly durable results.</p>

scholarly journals Historical Potential of Newsreel and Its Interpretation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Victor K Belyakov
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Secondary Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Film Archives ◽  
The Right

What is a newsreel and how it relates to historical events? When watching the newsreel film footage, it is important to understand it and evaluate. It is necessary to have a specific pre-knowledge and pre-understanding of the subject. We have the right mind to correlate on-screen images with historical events. But newsreels never plays them fully, since they do not give a comprehensive picture of what have happened. Actually, newsreels are largely symbolic, and they also facilitate formation of historical memory. At the same time, to fully understand the historical newsreels one has to use the knowledge about the same events from other sources. When viewing pictures of the past, its vital to take into consideration the author's initial message predestinated for the according audience. This raises the question of the interpretation of the seen today, affected by certain mental filters of the actual audience. It especially tells on secondary use of historical newsreels today in a new documentary. Symbolism in newsreel arises through the symbolism of the ritual demonstrated on the screen. Does the ritualistic imagery bear any esthetical quality? There is a kind of duality: either we see a certain beauty of the ritual, or we look at what is happening only in the informational way. The novelty of the article is determined by its theoretical approach to understanding of the artistic and historical qualities of the newsreel, helpful for researchers and practitioners working in film archives.

The ‘Pro-Establishment’ Radical Right

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoto Higuchi
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Full Advantage ◽  
General Public ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Historical Revisionism ◽  
Detachment Force ◽  
The Right

Japan has witnessed the rise of nativist demonstrations and hate crimes since the late 2000s, leading the Diet to enact the country’s first anti-racism law in 2016. The aim of this chapter is to examine the pro-establishment nature of Japan’s nativist movement. The movement often criticizes the ruling right-wing establishment but should be regarded as a detachment force of the establishment in two ways. First, Japanese nativism is a variant of historical revisionism and the emergence of nativist violence is a ‘by-product’ of the rise of historical revisionism among the right-wing establishment in post-Cold War Japan. Although the nativist movement and the right-wing establishment are not directly associated with each other, the former took full advantage of the discursive opportunity opened by the latter. Second, the general public favours the nativist movement as part of the conservative establishment.

The right to historical truth

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 10-15
Author(s):  
Adolf Juzwénko
Keyword(s):  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Right

“Varieties of Irishness”: Historical Revisionism, Irish Style

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Curtin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Record ◽  
Irish Republican Army ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Historical Revisionism ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Irish People ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Historical Truth

In an 1989 article inIrish Historical Studies, Brendan Bradshaw challenged the current practice of Irish history by arguing that an “ideology of professionalism” associated with the modern historiographical tradition established a half century ago, and now entrenched in the academy, “served to inhibit rather than to enhance the understanding of the Irish historical experience.” Inspired by the cautionary injunctions of Herbert Butterfield about teleological history, T. W. Moody, D. B. Quinn, and R. Dudley Edwards launched this revisionist enterprise in the 1930s, transforming Irish historiography which until then was subordinating historical truth to the cause of the nation. Their mission was to cleanse the historical record of its mythological clutter, to engage in what Moody called “the mental war of liberation from servitude to the myth” of Irish nationalist history, by applying scientific methods to the evidence, separating fact from destructive and divisive fictions.Events in the 1960s and 1970s reinforced this sense that the Irish people needed liberation from nationalist mythology, a mythology held responsible for the eruption of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and which offered legitimation to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the nightmare of history from which professional historians could rouse the Irish people. Nationalist heroes and movements came under even more aggressive, critical scrutiny. But much of this was of the character of specific studies. The revisionists seemed to have succeeded in tearing down the edifice of nationalist history, but they had offered little in the way of a general, synthetic history to replace it.

Reason and necessity: Thucydides iii 9–14, 37–48

1978 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 64-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Macleod
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Error ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Right

The speeches concerning the Mytilenean revolt in Thucydides III present three speakers trying to justify or commend a decision: they are, in Aristotelian terms, examples of symbuleutic oratory. The purpose of such oratory is naturally to identify the right course of action, to achieve ϵὐβουλία. But Thucydides is writing about facts; he is also intensely aware of human nature, a force more powerful than reason. So his characters cannot be simply models of wisdom. They are human beings, and they feel the pressure of war or empire. Thus the rhetoric which they employ to convince their hearers is for the historian a way of discovering to his readers the limits, or the failures, as well as the powers, of reasoning; and in this exposure of human weakness Thucydides' work is both rationalistic and tragic, an analysis of human error, be it corrigible or otherwise. If, then, he puts into his speakers' mouths the arguments he himself thought they should have used (i 22.1 τὰ δέοντα), he does so in the service of historical truth (i 22.4 τὸ σαφές). Reality is portrayed realistically, through a portrayal of the minds of those who were part of it; for all action must originate from beliefs and be contemplated through them. Further, the complex or problematical nature of reality is mirrored in his speakers' opposing interpretations of the issues at stake.

scholarly journals IMPROVEMENT, GREEN CONSTRUCTION AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN AS AN ACTUAL ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGE OF YOUTH

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.N. Nedbaev ◽  
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S.V. Nedbaeva ◽  
O.V. Goncharova ◽  
I.B. Kotova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Red Oaks ◽  
Intergenerational Ties ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ecological Landscape ◽  
The Impact

The quality of life in the urban system is closely associated with environmental conditions. With the right use of design tools, it is possible to solve the environmental problems of youth through the impact of landscape design on human opinion. Such landscaping areas as territories of memorable historical places must be complied with the modern requirements of society to preserve historical memory. It is discussed in the article the issues of solving problems to improve the factors of the urban environment that have a positive impact on maintaining intergenerational ties. The relevance of the project "Living memory of the Great Victory: for the glory of life, unity and the future" is grounded on the beautification and landscape design of Armavir. It is described a new ecological landscape approach to the planting of greenery and improvement of memorial complexes, based on the creation of a natural, relatively sustainable ecosystem. It is described the concept of laying park sites, performing cognitive, patriotic, informational, and environmental functions. The proposed style of memorial park territories supports the general historical and local history orientation of the territory in the design and improvement of urban areas with minimal resources for planting red oaks, based on the independent cultivation of seedlings from acorns. Ecological and patriotic project is aimed at creating and maintaining a sustainable landscape structure.

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