Walking the Past, Acting the Past? Peace March to Srebrenica Commemoration
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DOI: 10.1017/nps.2021.30
Abstract: This article is based on an ethnographic study carried out during the Nezuk-Potočari Peace March in the framework of Srebrenica genocide commemoration. A more than 100-kilometer procession, attracting each year around 5,000 participants, represents the… read more here.
Keywords: march; peace march; walking past; commemoration ... See more keywords
Settler colonial history, commemoration and white backlash: remembering the New Zealand Wars
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DOI: 10.1080/2201473x.2017.1279831
Abstract: ABSTRACT When students from a North Island secondary school began a petition to Parliament in 2014 seeking a national day of commemoration for the victims of the New Zealand Wars, they sparked a national debate… read more here.
Keywords: new zealand; colonial history; petition; zealand wars ... See more keywords
The “Perfect Failure” of Communal Genocide Commemoration in Cambodia
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DOI: 10.1086/708843
Abstract: Drawing on participant observation at communal sites of genocide memory and ethnographic interviews with villagers, monks, and nongovernmental organization stakeholders, I longitudinally trace (over a five-year period) the localization of Euro-Western genocide commemoration in the… read more here.
Keywords: genocide commemoration; genocide; global local; commemoration ... See more keywords
Vernacular de-commemoration: How collectives reckon with the past in the present
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DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176041
Abstract: This research develops a new framework through which to understand vernacular de-commemoration, as one aspect of bottom-up reckoning with the past through material commemoration. The productivity of breaking with the past distances us away from… read more here.
Keywords: vernacular commemoration; commemoration; collectives reckon; commemoration collectives ... See more keywords
Kindled emotions: Commemoration and the importance of meaning making, support and recognition
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284763
Abstract: Commemorative events, organized in the aftermath of war or large-scale violence, can have an emotional impact on those who are attending. We examined several characteristics that might influence this impact. In a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study,… read more here.
Keywords: recognition; making support; commemoration; kindled emotions ... See more keywords