Housing Others in Rebirths

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca M. Empson
Keyword(s):  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Present Life

This chapter explores the relationship between memory and kinship, showing how people's bodies can also be viewed as the containers that ‘house’ deceased kin. This is necessary because a sense of being separated from one's relatives embraces many levels of life for pastoral herders in Ashinga. Primarily, there is a sense of absence from place as the Buriads escaped war and disruption in Russian Buryatia and migrated to Mongolia in the early 1900s. In Mongolia, the Buriad were heavily persecuted during the socialist period and people were prohibited from communicating with their ancestors through shamanic performance. Intra-kin rebirths, common to most families in this area, provide a way in which to negotiate the politics of memory and wider feelings of loss. Nevertheless, when people are born into a world where they are both the rebirth of their grandfather and the daughter of someone in the present, life becomes a process of learning how to separate out this multiplicity in order that one may become the son or daughter of a person in the present.

scholarly journals Collectivist Logic in Comparative Genocide Studies and in the Battles for Memory

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-60
Author(s):  
Lech M. Nijakowski
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Collective Guilt ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Genocide Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
The Relationship

The article aims to present the mechanisms of collectivist logic as it functions in three areas: (1) in the historical comparative analysis of genocides – the basic method of genocidestudies; (2) in the activities of the organizations of victims and survivors, as well as in actions undertaken by animal rights activists; (3) in nationalist discourses and in the politics of memory. Collectivist logic is a set of operations that address human communities – groups of individuals linked together by significant social bonds and interests, and perceived as culturally distinctive – as the subject of history. As a result of the application of such logic, we may think about collective guilt and collective merit. The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of historical comparative analysis as an essential methodological tool of genocide studies. The argument further focuses upon the use of the symbolic capital attributed to the term “genocide” in studies involving analyses comparing other crimes – as well as the industrial exploitation of animals – to genocides. Finally, the author describes the relationship between the state policy of memory, nationalist discourses, and the academic integrity of genocide scholars.

Politiques de la mémoire et modèle de citoyenneté

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Eric Savarese
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Nous Montrons ◽  
Nous Examinons ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Premiere Partie

Précis Dans cet article, nous examinons dans quelle mesure les politiques de la mémoire peuvent dépendre du modèle de citoyenneté ou de la situation politique au présent. En France, les politiques de la mémoire ont été associées aux trois piliers du modèle de citoyenneté (individualisme, universalisme, laïcité) au dix-neuvième et dans la première partie du vingtième siècle. Mais l'adoption des récentes « lois mémorielles » montrent que les politiques de la mémoire peuvent également dépendre du contexte. Nous montrons ainsi que les politiques mémorielles dépendent exclusivement du modèle de citoyenneté lorsqu'elles sont associées à sa promotion ; mais elles dépendent également du contexte lorsqu'il s'agit de formellement conserver le modèle de citoyenneté, sans qu'elles y soient complètement ajustées. This article examines the relationship between memory politics and models of citizenship in France's current political situation. From the end of the nineteenth through the early twentieth century, commemorative policies reflected the three pillars of France's model of citizenship: individualism, universalism, and secularism (laïcité). The recent passage of new memory laws, however, demonstrates that memorial practices are sensitive to changing political contexts and consequently that the association between memory politics and citizenship is not automatic. Although recent commemorative laws are in some ways at odds with French concepts of citizenship, there has been no effort to reassess citizenship in response to the new politics of memory.

Fabricar a memória da violência: imagens do massacre de eldorado dos carajás na arte contemporânea

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Gil Vieira da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Complex Mediums ◽  
The Relationship

ResumoEste ensaio pretende investigar as relações entre arte, violência e políticas da memória, por meio da comparação entre obras de arte produzidas a partir do Massacre de Eldorado dos Carajás. Estuda-se a relação entre a criação artística e a produção de imagens memorialistas, analisando de que maneiras a arte contemporânea tem atuado no campo das políticas da memória, constituindo meios complexos às imagens de acontecimentos históricos, assim como meios de reflexão crítica sobre a própria fabricação de tais imagens.AbstractThis essay intends to investigate the relations between art, violence and politics of memory, by comparing artworks produced about the Eldorado dos Carajás Massacre. The relationship between artistic creation and the production of memorialist images is studied, analyzing in what ways contemporary art has acted in the field of politics of memory, constituting complex mediums to the images of historical events, as well as mediums of critical reflection on very fabrication of these images.

Music and the Politics of Memory: Charles Ives's A Symphony: New England Holidays

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-475
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE KRAMER
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Charles Ives ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Tone Poems ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

AbstractScholarship on Charles Ives has too often been reluctant to sort out what is problematical in his musical image of America. This article attempts to do so as part of an examination of Ives's A Symphony: New England Holidays, a cycle of tone poems depicting the major patriotic holidays celebrated during Ives's boyhood. The work is both a memorial to national unity, which Ives felt had collapsed in the twentieth century, and a protest against the political culture responsible. The musical means to these ends raise the question of the relationship between politics and musical form, and, with form, of musical analysis, in a particularly transparent way. Like many European composers of the era, Ives wanted to create a national style. But he did not want a style that could be reduced to formulas and circulated as a commodity. The old America he celebrated, as opposed to the new one he resisted, could be identified (or fantasized) as a culture that above all could not be commodified. The Holidays Symphony seeks to create what one might call a critical nostalgia. Its music demands to be understood as a “picture” of authentic American experience by refusing to be understandable as music on the only terms available in its day.

Everything in Its Right Place

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-77
Author(s):  
Tobias McCorkell
Keyword(s):  
Current Work ◽  
New School ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Present Life ◽  
A Current

The following fiction excerpt comprises the first two chapters of a current work in progress, the manuscript for a novel, Everything in Its Right Place. Set in Melbourne, Australia, the premise of the manuscript is as follows: A sixteen-year-old must come to terms with the trauma of his childhood, and the relationship with his father that made it so difficult, in order to navigate the complexities of his present life—girls, mates, a posh new school, the footy season, and a mother on the brink of collapse.

scholarly journals Identities and national options of politics of memory (to the results of discussion)

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-127
Author(s):  
Yuriy Chernyshov
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Specific Analysis ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Scientific Task ◽  
Perpetrators And Victims ◽  
The Relationship

The article summarizes the main results of a recent discussion on the relationship between national identities and national variants of the politics of memory in relation to global historical events of the 20 th century. This discussion took place from April 1 to June 30, 2020 as part of the annual Internet conference of the Altai School of Political Studies. The introduction to the article provides a brief overview of the main directions of already existing research on this topic in Russian and foreign literature. The content of the 30 reports submitted to the Internet conference is characterized, in which the comprehension of events that have left a deep imprint on the public consciousness (world wars, revolutions, the collapse of empires and multinational states, processes of decolonization, Cold War, etc.) is considered. For a specific analysis, the reports are selected that are closest to the chosen topic. They are divided into three semantic blocks: 1) Identities and comprehension of the past in the context of a pandemic; 2) Postcolonial identities and working through the past; 3) The trauma of genocide: the identities of “perpetrators” and “victims”. The analysis shows that the comprehension and historical assimilation of a number of events is still far from complete. In many countries, the "politics of memory" in relation to the most important historical events and symbols is used in the construction of national identities, in the legitimization of the most important steps in domestic and foreign policy. On the other hand, the formed national identity can significantly influence the memory policy pursued in the country. Therefore, further comparative study of the variants of “memory politics” used in the world, associated with the formation of identities, is an urgent scientific task.

scholarly journals Monumental politics as a factor for forming historical memory policy and supporting ethnic self-identification (on the example of the North Caucasian peoples)

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
S.G. Kudaeva
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The North ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Unbiased Manner ◽  
The Relationship

The problem of the relationship between monumental politics and the politics of historical memory is increasingly attracting the attention of scientists and the public. This is due to the fact that conflict situations periodically arise associated with publicly formed historical memory in the form of monumental art. The article makes an attempt to comprehend the concepts of politics of memory, historical memory and their influence on the formation of monumental politics and culture of commemoration relying on the scientific concepts of M. Halbwachs, J. Assman and others and to consider monumental politics as an instrument of memory politics in the context of modern socio-political processes in the Caucasus, its role in the construction of national identity, maintaining historical memory and influencing interethnic relations. In the course of the research the author uses the method of retrospective analysis, since the formulation of the problem requires the reconstruction of the historical process, fixation of the available conclusions and their influence on the state of public opinion. The combination of retrospective and problem-chronological methods with the principles of historicism and objectivity has made it possible to consider events in an interconnected and unbiased manner.

“Down with 1989!”: The Peculiar Right-Wing Backlash against 1968 in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ost
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
New Left ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
The Right ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article is part of the special cluster titled Generation ’68 in Poland (with a Czechoslovak Comparative Perspective). Whereas much of the European right greeted the fiftieth anniversary of 1968 with a critique of its legacy, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party was largely silent, both because 1968 did not usher in a counterculture and because the protests were directed against the communist party. And yet the Law and Justice party detests the legacy of 1968, for three reasons: 1968 was shaped by the left, ’68 activists and their values played a key role in the ensuing opposition, and because the right actually sympathizes with the communists of 1968, then dominated by nationalists. The right thus traditionally attacks the legacy of 1968 by attacking 1989 instead, when ’68’ ers played a central role and new left progressivism could finally emerge. That began changing early in 2018 when Poland’s parliament passed its Holocaust-speech law banning calumny against the “Polish Nation.” The resulting criticism brought 1968 back with a vengeance, with the right openly inhabiting the role of the national-communists, and beginning to attack Poland’s 1968 directly. Shedding new light on the diverse meanings of 1968 and the relationship of the right to national communism, the piece ends by looking at developments through Bernhard and Kubik’s theory of the politics of memory.

‘Long live the friendship between the Soviet Union and Finland!’ Irony, nostalgia, and melodrama in Finnish historical television drama and documentary series

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Pajala
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Historical Drama ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East West

In critical studies on historical television programmes, the affective qualities of televisual memory have been discussed mainly in terms of nostalgia. This article argues that conceptualizing the affective modes of relating to the past in more varied ways can help us to better understand the politics of memory on television. As a case study, the article analyses Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio’s historical drama and documentary series that deal with the relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union. The article identifies three affective modes in the programmes: irony, nostalgia and melodrama. Each of these modes offers different possibilities for critiquing, understanding and justifying the past. By studying televisual memories of the Soviet Union in a non-socialist country with important political, economic and cultural ties with the socialist bloc, the article moreover questions a clear East–West binary in studies on post-socialist memory.

In Between: Cultural Exchange and Competing Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-359
Author(s):  
DÖRTE SCHMIDT
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

AbstractAfter the Second World War, cultural politics has become a central medium for international relations. Owing to the particular conditions of their development, the relations between Latin America and Europe constituted an interesting case study in which the positioning of different nations in the realm of two competing political systems and the politics of memory concerning the recent war are intertwined. This article highlights five ‘moments’ in West Germany with respect to the relationship between Europe and Latin America in the field of music: the papers of the German Federal Foreign Office, the Berlin Festival week, the Darmstadt summer courses, the DAAD Berlin Artists Program, and the Horizonte Festival in Berlin. These sources invite an observation as to how – from the perspective of cultural politics – contrasting notions of the ‘international’ have tended to ‘fade out’ after the end of Cold War polarizations, leading to a more or less common acceptance of a notion of the ‘global’ as a privileged concept in contemporary cultural debates.

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