Populist Memory Politics and the Performance of Victimhood: Analysing the Political Exploitation of Historical Injustice in Central Europe
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DOI: 10.1017/gov.2023.10
Abstract: Right-wing populists often mobilize popular support by employing a people-versus-elite dichotomy in which they cast ‘the people’ as the underdog, or by ‘performing’ crisis to discredit the elite. Such ‘underdogism’, and the reliance on crisis… read more here.
Keywords: memory; performance victimhood; central europe; memory politics ... See more keywords
Memory-Politics and Neonationalism: Trianon as Mythomoteur
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DOI: 10.1017/nps.2018.72
Abstract: Abstract Analyzing the newly emerged Trianon cult, this article argues that the current wave of memory politics became the engine of new forms of nationalism in Hungary constituted by extremist and moderate right-wing civic and… read more here.
Keywords: memory politics; trianon; neonationalism trianon; politics neonationalism ... See more keywords
Veterans, Victims, and Memory: The Politics of the Second World War in Communist Poland. By Joanna Wawrzyniak. Studies in Contemporary History 4. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2015. 259 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Maps. $60.95, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2017.33
Abstract: identity in Poland by methodically unpacking the variety of discourses surrounding the sex trade. She convincingly integrates the Polish issues into the broader literature on prostitution, class, urbanization, migration, and professionalization. The unique aspects of… read more here.
Keywords: poland; politics second; second world; memory politics ... See more keywords
Silencing history: forgetting Italy’s past during the refugee crisis in Europe
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DOI: 10.1057/s41311-020-00209-9
Abstract: Most scholarly analyses of memory politics investigate how historical events are remembered selectively in order to justify political choices. Recent research has shown that ‘silencing the past’, notably the omission of relevant historical events, is… read more here.
Keywords: silencing history; memory politics; refugee; history forgetting ... See more keywords
Bringing Stalin Back In. Memory Politics and the Creation of a Useable Past in Putin’s Russia
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2020.1847870
Abstract: The presence of Josef Stalin in contemporary Russia is stunning. While matryoshkas in his image can be dismissed as touristy kitsch, admirers parading with his posters are harder to ignore or expla... read more here.
Keywords: memory politics; russia; back memory; politics creation ... See more keywords
Paradoxes of Erasure: Palestinian Memory and the Politics of Forgetting in Post-Dictatorship Chile
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DOI: 10.1080/1369801x.2018.1487793
Abstract: In this essay I explore the relationship between diasporic Palestinian memory and the politics of forgetting in post-dictatorship Chile. Drawing on ethnographic material from long-term fieldwork in Santiago, I argue that dual processes of remembrance… read more here.
Keywords: palestinian memory; memory politics; memory; post dictatorship ... See more keywords
Memory, Politics, and Peace in the Autobiography of Sumpa Khenpo
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DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2019.1669426
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article presents a section from the rangnam (rang rnam, ‘autobiography’) of Sumpa Khenpo Yeshe Peljor (Sum pa Ye shes dpal 'byor, 1704–1788) entitled The Essence of the Deeds of the Famed Scholar Erteni… read more here.
Keywords: memory politics; autobiography sumpa; autobiography; sumpa khenpo ... See more keywords
The archival riot: Travesti/Trans* audiovisual memory politics in twenty-first-century Argentina
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DOI: 10.1177/17506980211073099
Abstract: This article analyzes the making of travesti/trans* memory politics in Argentina. Focused on audiovisual initiatives, archives, catalogs, novels, and digital activism, it studies how these policies emerged in the wider context of the archival and… read more here.
Keywords: travesti trans; riot travesti; archival riot; memory ... See more keywords
Towards a resonant theory of memory politics
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DOI: 10.1177/17506980221101112
Abstract: It is argued that Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance provides memory activists (those actors engaged in memory politics) with both a normative justification and qualitative metric by which sites of memory may be compared and… read more here.
Keywords: resonant theory; theory memory; towards resonant; resonance ... See more keywords