Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic

IF 3.5 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI:10.1093/ips/olae003

Daniel Fittante

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Abstract

Scholars often emphasize how right-wing political actors in Europe use memory laws to undermine democratic traditions and revise historical accounts. But a broad range of political actors (with diverse motivations) support memory laws. Synthesizing research in international political sociology and memory politics, this analysis examines the relational and social practices of diplomats from small states and the creative strategies of center-left political insiders in the creation and passage of memory laws. Based on data collected in the Czech Republic, the article investigates how relational and social dynamics, in part, inspired members of parliament (from the Czech Social Democratic Party) to insert Armenian Genocide recognition into memory laws about the Holocaust and Second World War in the Chamber of Deputies (2017) and the Senate (2020) – a strategy I refer to as memory fusion. In developing the framework of memory fusion, however, the findings also explore how Turkish diplomats use a similar strategy to pursue their own goals.

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记忆融合、外交机构和捷克共和国对亚美尼亚种族灭绝的承认

学者们经常强调欧洲右翼政治人物如何利用记忆法破坏民主传统和修改历史记载。但支持记忆法的政治行为体范围广泛（动机各异）。本分析综合了国际政治社会学和记忆政治学的研究，考察了小国外交官的关系和社会实践，以及中左翼政治内部人士在制定和通过记忆法过程中的创造性策略。文章基于在捷克共和国收集的数据，研究了关系和社会动态如何在一定程度上激励（捷克社会民主党）议员在众议院（2017 年）和参议院（2020 年）关于大屠杀和第二次世界大战的记忆法中加入对亚美尼亚种族灭绝的承认--我将这种策略称为记忆融合。然而，在制定记忆融合框架的过程中，研究结果还探讨了土耳其外交官如何使用类似的策略来实现自己的目标。

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International Political Sociology Multiple-

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4.80

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.