Search results for "Politics of memory"
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Violence, War, and Gender: Collective Memory and Politics of Remembrance in Kosovo
2020
This chapter examines the politics memory and remembrance by focusing on the perceptions of citizens regarding the framework of Europeanisation and dealing with the troubled past. Although Kosovo signed the Stabilisation and Accession Agreement (SAA) with the EU, the country struggles to deal with its past in the framework of EU integration. This chapter examines the extent to which Europeanisation acts as a tool for dealing with the troubled past, or is just a superficial framework imposed from top-down policies of the EU. From six focus groups with 51 participants, both men and women and representing the main ethnic communities in Kosovo, we examine three main frameworks in the narratives…
¿La vuelta a los dos demonios? Cine y pasado reciente en Argentina: una lectura actual / The Return to the theory of two demons? Cinema and Recent Pa…
2016
Este artículo indaga acerca de los tres “momentos de la memoria” (Zarco, 2016: 12-13), entendiendo con ello, el espacio, la puesta en agenda, la visibilidad, los límites y los alcances que los diferentes gobiernos han otorgado a la reconstrucción del pasado reciente argentino. Dependiendo de la estrategia memorística propuesta por cada gobierno, el cine tendrá mayor o menor apoyo estatal, implicando ello una mayor o menor repercusión de público. Para abordar las políticas de la memoria del actual gobierno argentino, se indaga acerca de lo que hemos denominado el cuarto momento de la memoria, “Vuelta a los dos demonios (2016-)” en el que se evidencia un regreso a la “teoría de los dos demoni…
El exilio en primera persona. Un análisis del film Journal Inachevé de Marilú Mallet / Exile in the first person. An analysis of Journal Inachevé by …
2016
Este artículo estudia el proceso de recuperación de la cultura gallega en el exilio, la creación del proyecto empresarial del Laboratorio de Formas y la pervivencia del mismo, desde su puesta en marcha durante el franquismo hasta la democracia. Se aborda el importante papel que desempeñó para la recuperación de la memoria histórica gallega y se hace referencia a la difícil situación que está protagonizando. Palabras clave: Exilio, Patrimonio, Políticas de la Memoria, Cultura, Democracia. This article studies the process of recovery of Galician culture in exile, the creation of business project Laboratory methods and its survival, since Franco's dictatorship regime to democracy. It's an impo…
Patrimonios disonantes y memorias democráticas: una comparación entre Chile y España / Dissonant Heritage and Democratic Memories: a Comparison betwe…
2016
En este articulo se comparan las politicas de memoria en Chile y Espana. Se establecen similitudes y diferencias en el ambito de la gestion del patrimonio construido, a partir de algunos ejemplos de monumentos intencionales y no intencionales representativos del reciente pasado dictatorial. Se propone una lectura centrada en dos tipos de memoria publica “democratica” y se discute un modelo alternativo, que emerge de los dialogos academicos que conectan Espana y el Cono Sur. Palabras clave: Politicas de memoria, monumentos, patrimonio, Chile, Espana. This article compares politics of memory in Chile and Spain. It establishes similarities and differences in the management of built heritage, u…
The politics of mourning in post-communist Romania: unravelling the thanatopolitics of grievable deaths
2019
National days of mourning are state-sponsored rituals of collective grief enacted in the public sphere by political authorities to symbolically mark and emotionally cope with a socially significant...
Street Names through Sociological Lenses. Part I: Functionalism and Conflict Theory
2020
Abstract Street names are mundane spatial markers that besides providing a sense of orientation inscribe onto the landscape the ideological ethos and political symbols of hegemonic discourses. This review article takes stock of the existing scholarship done on the politics of street naming practices in human (political, cultural, and social) geography and rethinks these insights from sociological perspectives. Drawing on Randall Collins’ taxonomy of sociological theory, the paper interprets urban street nomenclatures along functionalist, conflictualist, constructionist, and utilitarian lines. The analysis is delivered in two installments: Part I addresses urban nomenclatures from functional…
Politics of memory and oblivion. An introduction to the special issue
2019
This editorial sets the context for the special issue on memory and oblivion and introduces the contributions. By interpreting the contemporary uses of the past, the editorial underscores the relevance of the study of memory and oblivion in today’s heated and antagonistic debates. The politics of memory and uses of the past often coincide with efforts of reducing the past to legitimize the current authorities and tend to create new gaps in memory that contribute to the polarisation of societies. The special issue consists of six articles that scrutinise the consequences of the intertwining of memory, oblivion and political power in European countries. Based on two main approaches, the contr…
Transitional Politics of Memory: Political Strategies of Managing the Past in Post-communist Romania
2017
The article develops a typology of political strategies of coming to terms with the past as a theoretical frame of reference against which it assesses the transitional politics of memory pursued in...
Współczesna hiszpańska polityka pamięci (1999-2014)
2016
W niniejszym artykule dokonana została analiza oraz próba systematyzacji współczesnej hiszpańskiej polityki pamięci. Osią aktualnych debat o przeszłości są w Hiszpanii dwa wydarzenia: hiszpańska wojna domowa (1936-1939) i dyktatura frankistowska (1936-1975). Punktem wyjścia rozważań jest teza o rozproszonym charakterze inicjatyw dążących do zdominowania polityki pamięci. Pamięć narodowa to jedynie użyteczna politycznie metafora, tymczasem w warunkach demokracji liberalnej należy raczej mówić w liczbie mnogiej: o pamięciach historycznych i politykach historycznych. Polityka pamięci jest bowiem kreowana zarówno odgórnie, przez partie polityczne za pomocą instytucji politycznych, jak i oddolni…
A tipper full of skinned limbs : fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles
2013
This article discusses the potential of a fictional story, a novel, to challenge political narratives in a divided society. I will analyse three novels set during the ”Troubles” (1960s-1998) in Northern Ireland, looking at the ways in which each novel navigates the narrow space between Northern Irish unionism and nationalism, the two dominant narratives in Northern Ireland. I will read the novels politically, interpreting them as rhetorical narratives holding the power to challenge commonplace assumptions. I will apply the ideas put forward by James Phelan concerning the inherent rhetorical nature of narrative in fiction. I will also present Ann Rigney’s concept of cultural memory as an ana…