Memory and change in Europe Pakier, Małgorzata; Wawrzyniak, Joanna
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In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory ...eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region's experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.
This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both the informed and nonspecialist reader. The ...essays approach the questions why and how PiS: Law and Justice, the party of Kaczynski, returned to power and why and how it is doing what it is doing while in power. They help understand and make sense of how “history" plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The language about PiS in Western media tends to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain largely dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was just fast enough in understanding its electorate, and helped Poland simply reverting to normalcy? Isn’t this New Normal a lot like the Old Normal: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist? The book looks at the current struggle between one ‘Poland’ and another; between a Westernlooking Poland and an inwardlooking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an ‘Eastern’ problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland’s illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.
Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production ...of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence-and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war. At the same time, the book moves decisively away from the "damage-centered" approach that pathologizes loss and trauma by detailing how first- and second-generation Vietnamese have created alternative memories and epistemologies that challenge the established public narratives of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese people. Explicitly interdisciplinary,Body Countsmoves between the humanities and social sciences, drawing on historical, ethnographic, cultural, and virtual evidence in order to illuminate the places where Vietnamese refugees have managed to conjure up social, public, and collective remembering.
Blending biography, literary analysis, and cultural history, Uncivil Wars reveals a new understanding of the works of Elena Garro and Octavio Paz, placing these iconic writers in the context of the ...revolutions—military, social, and feminist—that shaped their lives.
Contemporary East Asian societies are still struggling with complex legacies of colonialism, war and domination. Years of Japanese imperial occupation followed by the Cold War have entrenched ...competing historical understandings of responsibility for past crimes in Korea, China, Japan and elsewhere in the region. In this context, even the impressive economic and cultural networks that have developed over the past sixty years have failed to secure peaceful coexistence and overcome lingering attitudes of distrust and misunderstanding in the region.
This book examines the challenges of historical reconciliation in East Asia, and, in doing so, calls for a reimagining of how we understand both historical identity and responsibility. It suggests that by adopting a ‘forward-looking’ approach that eschews obsession with the past, in favour of a reflective and deliberative engagement with history, real progress can be made towards peaceful coexistence in East Asia. With chapters that focus on select experiences from East Asia, while simultaneously situating them within a wider comparative perspective, the contributors to this volume focus on the close relationship between reconciliation and ‘inherited responsibility’ and reveal the contested nature of both concepts. Finally, this volume suggests that historical reconciliation is essential for strengthening mutual trust between the states and people of East Asia, and suggests ways in which such divisive legacies of conflict can be overcome.
Providing both an overview of the theoretical arguments surrounding reconciliation and inherited responsibility, alongside examples of these concepts from across East Asia, this book will be valuable to students and scholars interested in Asian politics, Asian history and international relations more broadly.
Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Co-director of the Institute for Values and Ethics at Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea.
Melissa Nobles is the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science at MIT, USA.
Part I: Introduction 1. ‘Inherited’ Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Melissa Nobles Part II: Theoretical Overview 2. Owning the Misdeeds of Japan’s Wartime Regime Farid Abdel-Nour 3. Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia Daniel Butt 4. Inherited Responsibility and the Challenge of Political Reconciliation Ernesto Verdeja Part III: Historical Reconciliation in East Asia 5. Historical Reconciliation in Southeast Asia: Notes from Singapore Tze M. Loo 6. Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations Yinan He 7. Appropriating Defeat: Japan, America, and Eto Jun’s Historical Reconciliations Naoyuki Umemori 8. "Comfort Women" and Japan’s National Responsibility: A Case Study in Reconciling Feminism and Nationalism Historical Reconciliation in China Ranjoo Herr 9. Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War Balazs Szalontai
Este texto, resultado de una serie de estudios e investigaciones pertenecientes al proyecto Época y Educación (2019-2024), procede de un interrogante por los orígenes, por los comienzos, tal como lo ...hace la filosofía -o cierta filosofía- o como lo hace la educación - cierta educación- en tiempos en que el individualismo, el exitismo y la adoración por el futuro cobran protagonismo cultural, lingüístico y político. La pregunta acerca de los comienzos es infinita, y por ello toda narración se interroga, queriéndolo o no, por aquel había una vez de los mitos, cuentos y fábulas, y renace en él toda vez que se relata una historia. Como si fuera imprescindible seguir el trazo de una historia, de la curiosidad, de la atracción o fascinación o de una responsabilidad por la memoria colectiva y por hacer resonar la existencia de quienes narraron antes. Por ello narrar tiene que ver con prestar atención al mundo, para continuarlo, para interrogarlo, e incluso para contradecirlo.
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