The Politics Of Historical Memory And Commemoration In Africa

Author : Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110655315

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Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical consciousness and the production of public memory. In particular, how and why societies remember and forget, what should serve as symbols of collective memory, and whether there exists space for multiple memory cultures are questions being vigorously debated once again. These discussions present particular challenges not only to official memory bound to ideological constructions of nationhood but also to the teaching of history and its links to social justice movements. The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics of historical memory in Africa will have relevance for contemporary politics globally and for understanding how memories can be mobilised for political ends.

Author : Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110655490

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The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes Pdf

Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical consciousness and the production of public memory. In particular, how and why societies remember and forget, what should serve as symbols of collective memory, and whether there exists space for multiple memory cultures are questions being vigorously debated once again. These discussions present particular challenges not only to official memory bound to ideological constructions of nationhood but also to the teaching of history and its links to social justice movements. The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics of historical memory in Africa will have relevance for contemporary politics globally and for understanding how memories can be mobilised for political ends.

Author : Anna Maerker,Simon Sleight,Adam Sutcliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351055567

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History, Memory and Public Life by Anna Maerker,Simon Sleight,Adam Sutcliffe Pdf

History, Memory and Public Life introduces readers to key themes in the study of historical memory and its significance by considering the role of historical expertise and understanding in contemporary public reflection on the past. Divided into two parts, the book addresses both the theoretical and applied aspects of historical memory studies. ‘Approaches to history and memory‘ introduces key methodological and theoretical issues within the field, such as postcolonialism, sites of memory, myths of national origins, and questions raised by memorialisation and museum presentation. ‘Difficult pasts‘ looks at history and memory in practice through a range of case studies on contested, complex or traumatic memories, including the Northern Ireland Troubles, post-apartheid South Africa and the Holocaust. Examining the intersection between history and memory from a wide range of perspectives, and supported by guidance on further reading and online resources, this book is ideal for students of history as well as those working within the broad interdisciplinary field of memory studies.

Author : Mamadou Diawara,Bernard Lategan,Jörn Rüsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845458379

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Historical Memory in Africa by Mamadou Diawara,Bernard Lategan,Jörn Rüsen Pdf

A vast amount of literature—both scholarly and popular—now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African perspective. This volume explores the inner dynamics of memory in all its variations, from its most destructive and divisive impact to its remarkable potential to heal and reconcile. It addresses issues on both the conceptual and the pragmatic level and its theoretical observations and reflections are informed by first-hand experiences and comparative reflections from a German, Indian, and Korean perspective. A new insight is the importance of the future dimension of memory and hence the need to develop the ability to ‘remember with the future in mind’. Historical memory in an African context provides a rich kaleidoscope of the diverse experiences and perspectives—and yet there are recurring themes and similar conclusions, connecting it to a global dialogue to which it has much to contribute, but from which it also has much to receive.

Author : S. McDowell,M. Braniff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137314857

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Commemoration as Conflict by S. McDowell,M. Braniff Pdf

McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and whether it can even reactivate conflict as political circumstances change.

Author : Hans Erik Stolten
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067709066

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History Making and Present Day Politics by Hans Erik Stolten Pdf

In this collection, some of South Africa's most distinguished historians and social scientists present their views on the importance of history and heritage for the transformation of the South African society. Although popular use of history helped remove apartheid, the study of history lost status during the transition process. Some of the reasons for this, like the nature of the negotiated revolution, social demobilization, and individualization, are analyzed in this book. The combination of scholarly work with an active role in changing society has been a central concern in South African history writing. This book warns against the danger of history being caught between reconciliation, commercialization, and political correctness. Some of the articles critically examine the role of historians in ideological debates on gender, African agency, Afrikaner anti-communism, early South African socialism, and the role of the business world during late apartheid. Other contributions explore continuing controversies on the politics of public history in post-apartheid South Africa, describe the implementation of new policies for history education, or investigate the use of applied history in the land restitution process and in the TRC. The authors also examine a range of new government and private initiatives in the practical use of history, including the establishment of new historical entertainment parks and the conversion of museums and heritage sites. For readers interested in nation building processes and identity politics, this book provides valuable insight.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791032003497

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The Legacy of a Troubled Past by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maria Mälksoo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800372523

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Handbook on the Politics of Memory by Maria Mälksoo Pdf

Providing a novel multi-disciplinary theorization of memory politics, this insightful Handbook brings varied literatures into a focused dialogue on the ways in which the past is remembered and how these influence transnational, interstate, and global politics in the present. With case studies from Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States, the Handbook focuses on the political features of historical memory in international relations. Chapters examine key concepts of memory politics, including accountability, commemoration and memorialization, the Europeanization of memory, and the politics of trauma and victimhood, as well as analyzing different sites of memory, from the human body and memorial sites to media, film, and television. It also answers essential questions such as who and what determines the relevance of the past in the present; how does memory become a political question; and what are the political effects and ethical implications of its mobilization? Exploring the links between the politics of memory, international ethics, law, and diplomacy, this stimulating Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of politics and international relations, cultural studies, history, and transitional justice. Its discussion of notable agents and practices of memory politics will also be beneficial for practitioners working in human rights, politics, and public policy.

Author : Brad West
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317163930

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War Memory and Commemoration by Brad West Pdf

In a period characterised by an unprecedented cultural engagement with the past, individuals, groups and nations are debating and experimenting with commemoration in order to find culturally relevant ways of remembering warfare, genocide and terrorism. This book examines such remembrances and the political consequences of these rites. In particular, the volume focuses on the ways in which recent social and technological forces, including digital archiving, transnational flows of historical knowledge, shifts in academic practice, changes in commemorative forms and consumerist engagements with history affect the shaping of new collective memories and our understanding of the social world. Presenting studies of commemorative practices from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East, War Memory and Commemoration illustrates the power of new commemorative forms to shape the world, and highlights the ways in which social actors use them in promoting a range of understandings of the past. The volume will appeal to scholars of sociology, history, cultural studies and journalism with an interest in commemoration, heritage and/or collective memory.

Author : Katherine Haldane Grenier,Amanda R. Mushal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030376475

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Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century by Katherine Haldane Grenier,Amanda R. Mushal Pdf

This collection provides a long-overdue examination of the nineteenth century as a crucible of new commemorative practices. Distinctive memory cultures emerged during this period which would fundamentally reshape public and private practices of remembrance in the modern world. The essays in this volume bring together scholars of History, Literature, Art History, and Musicology to explore uses of memory in nineteenth-century empire-building and constructions of national identity, cultures of sentiment and mourning practices, and discourses of race and power. Contributors approach the topic through case studies of Europe, the United States, and the British Empire. Their analyses of nineteenth-century innovations in commemoration at both the personal and the larger civic and political levels will appeal to students and scholars of memory and of the nineteenth-century world.

Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351527644

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Commemorating War by Graham Dawson Pdf

War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes that have led to this development, among them the passing of the two world wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, the book illuminates the struggle to install particular memories at the center of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood. Commemorating War analyzes a range of forms of remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors; and from cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels to investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. It presents a wide range of international case studies, encompassing lesser-known national histories and wars beyond the well-trodden terrain of Vietnam and the two world wars in Europe. Emerging from this book is an important critique of both "state-centered" approaches to war memory and those that regard commemoration primarily as a human response to loss and grief. Offering a wealth of empirical research material, this book will be important for cultural and oral historians, sociologists, researchers in international relations and human rights, and anybody with an interest in the cultural construction of memory in contemporary society.

Author : Ussama Makdisi,Paul A. Silverstein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217989

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Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa by Ussama Makdisi,Paul A. Silverstein Pdf

Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.

Author : Martin J. Murray
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452939575

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Commemorating and Forgetting by Martin J. Murray Pdf

When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The new South Africa’s confrontation of this dilemma is Martin J. Murray’s subject in Commemorating and Forgetting. More broadly, this book explores how collective memory works—how framing events, persons, and places worthy of recognition and honor entails a selective appropriation of the past, not a mastery of history. How is the historical past made to appear in the present? In addressing these questions, Murray reveals how collective memory is stored and disseminated in architecture, statuary, monuments and memorials, literature, and art—“landscapes of remembrance” that selectively recall and even fabricate history in the service of nation-building. He examines such vehicles of memory in postapartheid South Africa and parses the stories they tell—stories by turn sanitized, distorted, embellished, and compressed. In this analysis, Commemorating and Forgetting marks a critical move toward recognizing how the legacies and impositions of white minority rule, far from being truly past, remain embedded in, intertwined with, and imprinted on the new nation’s here and now.

Author : Mphathisi Ndlovu,Lungile Augustine Tshuma,Shepherd Mpofu
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 3031398912

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Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa by Mphathisi Ndlovu,Lungile Augustine Tshuma,Shepherd Mpofu Pdf

This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book unpacks the influence or role of the global powers in conflict in the Global South. Contributors are grappling with a number of issues such as the politics of memorialization, memory conflicts, exhumations, reburials, historical dialogue, peacebuilding and social healing, memory activism, visual representation, transgenerational transmission of memories, and identity politics.

Author : Brad West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 1472455118

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War Memory and Commemoration by Brad West Pdf

In a period characterised by an unprecedented cultural engagement with the past, individuals, groups and nations are debating and experimenting with commemoration in order to find culturally relevant ways of remembering warfare, genocide and terrorism. This book examines such remembrances and the political consequences of these rites. In particular, the volume focuses on the ways in which recent social and technological forces, including digital archiving, transnational flows of historical knowledge, shifts in academic practice, changes in commemorative forms and consumerist engagements with history affect the shaping of new collective memories and our understanding of the social world. Presenting studies of commemorative practices from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East, War Memory and Commemoration illustrates the power of new commemorative forms to shape the world, and highlights the ways in which social actors use them in promoting a range of understandings of the past. The volume will appeal to scholars of sociology, history, cultural studies and journalism with an interest in commemoration, heritage and/or collective memory.