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Protests of 1968: The Politics of Memory or the Memory of Politics?
2020There are many accounts of student protests from 1968 that have been written by the witnesses of events, and there are also many studies conducted by experts in various fields, but the event itself is difficult to place in wider political narratives. However, the event still seems important for several reasons: it was neither expected nor foreseeable ...
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2023
This chapter expands the analysis of memorials and commemorations from islands in the Mediterranean Sea to the national scale in Italy and beyond, to the scale of Europe. It examines why the Italian Parliament and Senate established October 3 as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Immigration in 2016.
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This chapter expands the analysis of memorials and commemorations from islands in the Mediterranean Sea to the national scale in Italy and beyond, to the scale of Europe. It examines why the Italian Parliament and Senate established October 3 as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Immigration in 2016.
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War Memorials as Political Memory
Geographical Review, 1988War memorials acquire their landscape definition from sentiment, utility, social purposes, and historical interpretations. Social purposes of identity and service can be used to express sacred and nonsacred sentiment for war memory, but honor and humanitarianism are used only to symbolize the sacred in memorials.
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2012
The Eighty Years’ War and the establishment of two states in the Low Countries inaugurated the publication of numerous texts to support a distinct Northern and Southern identity. This study analyses urban and regional chorographies written both in the North and in the South in the seventeenth century. It examines different strategies that chorographers
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The Eighty Years’ War and the establishment of two states in the Low Countries inaugurated the publication of numerous texts to support a distinct Northern and Southern identity. This study analyses urban and regional chorographies written both in the North and in the South in the seventeenth century. It examines different strategies that chorographers
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Memory Politics and the “Politics of Memory”
2019In opposition to the memory politics that seeks to frame the historical narrative of Communism and the Revolution, this article discusses the possibility of a different memory of the Russian Revolution. Taking as its starting point Derrida’s notion of “politics of memory” in Spectres of Marx and Nancy’s existentialist reconfiguration of communality in ...
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Trauma and the Memory of Politics
2003In this interesting study, Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism, and questions the assumed role of commemorations as simply reinforcing state and nationhood. Taking examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins offers a thorough discussion of ...
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Latin American Perspectives, 1994
Under the circumstances of the political violence in Argentina in the mid1970s that climaxed in the military coup of 1976 and the ensuing massive violations of human rights, a new social movement emerged. At first almost in hiding and unseen, then becoming steadily more visible, gaining step by step in political relevance and centrality, the human ...
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Under the circumstances of the political violence in Argentina in the mid1970s that climaxed in the military coup of 1976 and the ensuing massive violations of human rights, a new social movement emerged. At first almost in hiding and unseen, then becoming steadily more visible, gaining step by step in political relevance and centrality, the human ...
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2021
This study examines how diasporas inherit history in order to shed light on the tension between collective memory and history. The case studies are the Indian and Greek Cypriot diaspora communities in London. These two groups belonged to former colonies that can trace their immigration pattens back to the first half to twentieth century and were ...
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This study examines how diasporas inherit history in order to shed light on the tension between collective memory and history. The case studies are the Indian and Greek Cypriot diaspora communities in London. These two groups belonged to former colonies that can trace their immigration pattens back to the first half to twentieth century and were ...
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2010
Japanese identity narratives and the associated Asia imaginary legitimized colonial policies in which the implied hierarchy of kokutai whittled away Korean sovereignty from 1875 onward. Even when the “colonial” relationship ceased in August 1945, the anti-Korean sentiments during the Allied occupation (1945–1952), as well as the exchange of invectives ...
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Japanese identity narratives and the associated Asia imaginary legitimized colonial policies in which the implied hierarchy of kokutai whittled away Korean sovereignty from 1875 onward. Even when the “colonial” relationship ceased in August 1945, the anti-Korean sentiments during the Allied occupation (1945–1952), as well as the exchange of invectives ...
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Monuments, Memorials, and the Politics of Memory
Urban Geography, 2003(2003). Monuments, Memorials, and the Politics of Memory. Urban Geography: Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 442-459.
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