“At the end of October 1939, the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs,” the founder of collective memory studies, “visited the convent of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion and looked at the excavations under it” ( Lemire 2017: 56 ). A few years
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In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Mar 2020
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The Greek Catholic Community and its Collective Memories
Religious Orders, Monasteries and Confessional Dynamics in Lebanon
Rodrigo Ayupe Bueno da Cruz
This article analyses the role of the Salvatorian and Chouerite 1 monastic orders and their principal convents in producing collective memories among the Greek Catholic community in Lebanon. Within a national context marked by both a
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2022
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- 30–47 (18 total)
Collective Memory and Tourism
Globalizing Transmission through Localized Experience
Vida Bajc
The articles in this issue highlight the relationship between collective memory and tourism. In what ways are practices of collective remembering implicated with those of tourism? Where do collective memory scholarship and tourism studies meet? How might the two interdisciplinary academic fields be shaped through each other’s concepts? We suggest that experiencing the collective past is integral to specific forms of tourism, particularly what is called ‘heritage tourism’. So, too, are certain kinds of public practices of collective remembering increasingly connected with the tourism industry. In the absence of, or complementary to, financial support for the historic preservation efforts, the entrepreneurial approach to the collective past turns objects of such memory into tourist attractions to keep them economically viable. Thinking about collective remembering in relation to tourism directs our analytical focus to the authority of experiencing the past in a specific tourist place in the present. It centres our attention on what is involved in making this experience possible.
Ruth Wittlinger
British-German relations have undergone a considerable transformation since 1945 with both countries having to adapt to significant changes in their own status, as well as a very different international environment. Germany's status as a morally and militarily defeated and occupied power in 1945 is in stark contrast to the confident role it is playing at the beginning of the new millennium when—sixty years after the end of World War II—the German chancellor for the first time took part in the VE-Day celebrations of the victors. This article analyzes recent dynamics of collective memory in both countries and examine if and to what extent their collective memories play a role in British-German relations.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2007
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- 42–69 (27 total)
Eric Langenbacher
The Federal Republic of Germany—both before and after 1989—has been influenced deeply by collective memories of the Nazi period and the Holocaust, a seemingly "unmasterable past." In a first phase after unification, memory trends, which had their origin in the mid 1980s, continued, but a second period, beginning around the 1999 move of the capital back to Berlin, however, witnessed the erosion of this older trend and the delayed rise of new memory dynamics. Substantively, there have been three vectors of memory concerning Nazi crimes, German suffering, and the period of division, especially regarding the German Democratic Republic. In this article, I outline the major collective memory dynamics and debates, first from a qualitative and then from a more quantitative perspective where I analyze the holdings of the German National Library. I conclude that an intense period of memory work characterized the postunification years, but the peak of concern was reached several years ago and the German future will be much less beholden to the past. Given inevitable normalizing trends and the unintended consequences of the hegemony of Holocaust memory, Germany's difficult historical legacy increasingly appears to be disappearing or even mastered.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2010
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- 42–68 (26 total)
Introduction
The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Nicolas Argenti
a multiplicity of autonomous nation-states defined by their ethnicity in a forced movement of peoples the likes of which the world had never seen before. This special issue examines how individual and collective memories, affective states, and
Lia Friesem
and cultural life ( Klar et al. 2013 ). Israeli society maintains a powerful and living collective memory of the Holocaust ( Yair 2014 ), expanding its meanings and applications, and utilizing all national and institutional mechanisms to preserve and
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Sep 2018
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- 85–104 (20 total)
Memories of Migration
Commemoration, Contestation, and Migrant Integration in the United Kingdom and Germany
Barbara Laubenthal and Kevin Myers
.” 2 Yet the dominant texts, narratives, images, and rituals that constitute a society's collective memory are always selective. Some narratives and some events, actors, and periods are selected, inscribed, and remembered, while others are excluded and
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- 70–92 (23 total)
Heroes of Our Time
The Historical-Political Context of Devorah Omer’s Novels
Rima Shikhmanter
( Cohen 1980 ; Peleg 1977 ) and was adapted as a play for young audiences. The books thus played a central role in shaping the collective memory of thousands of Jewish Israelis, forming the conduit through which generations of children studied key
In Israel Studies Review
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Research Article
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- 110–125 (16 total)
Dealing with an Ocean of Meaninglessness
Reinhart Koselleck's Lava Memories and Conceptual History
Margrit Pernau and Sébastien Tremblay
personal and cannot be communicated or transferred into collective memory (without being any less social for that fact). Without in any way downplaying the importance of the affective experience for the individual, for Koselleck it does not translate into
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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