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Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq

Perspectives on Politics, 2007
Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. By Eric Davis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 385p. $60.00 cloth, $27.50 paper. What is the relationship between state power and historical memory? Eric Davis argues that the focus on overt state repression that has dominated studies of Iraq overlooks the ...
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Mask Bans As Expressions of Memory Politics in the United States

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Mask laws have a lengthy history in the United States, one primarily, but not exclusively tied up with the Ku Klux Klan. They also are an instance of memory politics. In particular, mask bans complicate Nikolay Koposov’s distinction between narrow, self-centered memory politics (society casting itself as a victim), and broad, universalistic memory ...
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Legacies of state socialism in the Russian public school curriculum: history and literature, textbook wars, and state memory politics

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2021
The Soviet educative system was one of the most highly regarded achievements of state socialism, and today’s Russian public school curriculum represents an important site of legacy – and contestati...
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