Reflecting on a painful Past Hess, Kristy; McCallum, Kerry
Media history,
07/2023, Letnik:
29, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This study examines the role of a local newspaper in shaping a community's collective memory of child sexual abuse by documenting changing representations of a former rural orphanage and its ...custodians where such horrific crimes took place. The paper conducts an across-time analysis of news coverage (1944-1954 and 2010-2020) to map these changing representations in their media, policy and social contexts. It extends scholarship around collective memory and temporal reflexivity as a provocation for journalists to acknowledge and engage with their news outlet's own mediated past (no matter how uncomfortable) when reporting on and interpreting events such as Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Este artículo es el resultado de un ejercicio de sistematización que muestra la experiencia de un proyecto artístico llevado a cabo en el barrio Santa Librada en localidad quinta de Usme que durante ...más de treinta años ha posicionado su propuesta transformadora en la comunidad garantizando la permanencia de núcleos familiares que por tres generaciones se han involucrado en el proyecto, haciendo de este un lugar de múltiples aprendizajes en donde los sujetos construyen su propia historia desde el arte como eje central para la reivindicación y posicionamiento de niños y jóvenes líderes de su propia comunidad. Esta sistematización recoge las voces de tres familias participantes que por más de diez años han creído en un proyecto alternativo para su sector. Ellos y muchas personas más enriquecen esta experiencia desde sus prácticas educativas, culturales y sociales que en los sectores populares son tan necesarias, sobre todo por el reconocimiento y fortalecimiento de una memoria colectiva que les permita escribir su historia.
The problem of locality and local wisdom in Indonesia has become a problem that has got much attention in the post-Reformation 1998. Cepu District in Blora Regency is now starting to rise to ...revitalize the glory of the Jipang Duchy in the past. Meanwhile, Duke of Arya Penangsang who ruled Jipang in the mid-16th century was a symbol of their hero. The chronicle of
Babad Tanah Djawi
and the Javanese Mataraman/inland culture have built a hegemonic representation whose traces are manifested in the art of Solo kethoprak (Mataraman). Meanwhile, Kethoprak Pati (coastal area) which accommodates spoken stories in Coastal Java builds a representation that has a resistance pattern. Cepu is a city that inherits the existence of the figure of Arya Penangsang and Kadipaten Jipang. The revitalization of the glory of the Jipang Duchy in Cepu is a resistance patterned representation. The existence of Jipang Village 1 as a collective memory builder of the Cepu community in Blora Regency is very important. Jipang Village, in the past was the capital of the Jipang Duchy, which is currently seen as important by the Cepu community. This research shows that there are three important things related to the existence of Jipang Village. First, Arya Penangsang and the Duchy of Jipang for the Cepu Community. Second, the construction of the collective memory of the Cepu people. Third, the material culture of Arya Penangsang and the Duchy of Jipang.
In this article I argue that Russia's use of memory laws has facilitated the armed conflict in Ukraine, bolstering the rhetorical justification for Russia's latest aggression. The use of memory laws ...is hardly new for various legal systems around the world. Most of the early European memory laws have focused on the protection of victim groups from harmful ideologies, however the last two decades have seen a shift away from victim-centric to state-centric laws, especially in Eastern Europe. These laws protect the state's honour and reputation and have serious ramifications domestically, in terms of human rights violations, but also in international relations. I argue that due to the relationship between identity-building and collective memory, the use of the most nefarious types of memory laws that exculpate the state from earlier crimes has enabled Russia to amplify its propaganda around Ukraine's so-called 'denazification', justifying its aggression against Ukraine. The case study constitutes an example of the many reasons why memory laws should be used sparingly.
Although social scientists have examined how political speeches may help forge and/or shape collective memories, they have done so with little to no input from psychologists. We address this deficit, ...demonstrating how a modified version of a well-established and empirically derived psychological phenomenon—socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting—helps explain the mnemonic consequences associated with political speeches, in this case, the Belgian King’s 2012 summer speech. To this end, we analyzed the responses of 43 French speakers and 49 Dutch speakers. Of these individuals, 35 attended to the speech (16 French speakers; 19 Dutch speakers). Our results suggest that the Belgian King’s speech induced French-speaking Belgians who attended the speech to recall less information related to what the King mentioned in the speech. We found no such deficit for Dutch-speaking Belgians. Rather, the Dutch-speaking Belgians exhibited a trend toward greater recall of related and unrelated information when attending relative to not attending to the speach. These results bolster the importance of including a psychological approach in the study of collective memories and the moderating role of social identity.
Collective victimhood and collective resilience are two sides of the same coin. However, most literature to date has focused on the experiences and consequences of collective victimhood. In the ...present research, we focused on the experiences of Black Americans, a group that has a legacy of victimization and resilience. As a part of Black Americans' collective memory, we explored the nature of historical collective resilience and examined its role in explaining collective responses to present‐day oppression, over and above any effect of historical collective victimhood. When they were asked to reflect on their group's history, across Studies 1 (N = 272) and 2 (N = 294), we found that Black Americans generated narratives of collective resilience. In both studies, we also found evidence that perceived historical collective resilience was linked to a greater sense of collective continuity, which, in turn, explained greater support for the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement. Our findings underscore the importance of considering narratives of resilience in a group's history and point to the way such collective resilience narratives can serve as a resource for the group in the present.
This paper explores the symbolic significance of national borders in a cross‐border regional context. The main argument is that the transformation of borders is actually part of a complex and ...contested process of symbolisation, predicated on articulations between political projects, everyday experience, and collective memories. The Greater Geneva borderscape provides an emblematic case of cross‐border cooperation that is marked by the physical erasure of the Franco‐Swiss border. Rather than an absence of symbolisation, we hypothesise that the border continues to play a symbolic role through its implied “absence” in the affirmation of a cross‐border territorial project. First, we show how the invisibilisation of the border in the Greater Geneva spatial imaginaries is in fact a symbolisation strategy aimed at underlining its obsolete character. Second, we reveal how the discordances between the symbolic recoding of the border by cross‐border cooperation elites and existing popular imaginations and competing meanings weakens the project. To the extent that borders are powerful symbols that are intended to stimulate emotions and a sense of belonging, the ability to mobilise their meaning‐making capacity is at the heart of symbolisation politics, as much for the proponents of open borders and cross‐border cooperation as for the reactionary forces that emphasise national interests and ontological insecurity.
This paper explores the symbolic significance of national borders in a cross‐border regional context. The main argument is that the transformation of borders is actually part of a complex and contested process of symbolisation, predicated on articulations between political projects, everyday experience, and collective memories. The Greater Geneva borderscape provides an emblematic case of cross‐border cooperation in which the invisibilisation of the border in the spatial imaginaries is in fact a symbolisation strategy aimed at underlining its obsolete character.
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