Opportunities and Challenges in Memory Activism: The Case of the Mittenwald Protest Campaign (2002–2009)

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Soňa Mikulová
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Abstract This article examines how memory activism can contribute to the democratizing of history through the example of a specific protest campaign in which activist historians among other groups and civil society actors attacked the dominant narrative of the “clean Wehrmacht” represented by a veteran association of Mountain Troops. It interrogates the Public History approaches of the activists and their impact on the local level of the Bavarian town of Mittenwald, where the protests took place between 2002 and 2009, in order to find out how participatory their construction of an alternative historical narrative actually was. Although memory activism has obvious benefits especially in dealing with painful pasts, the article also reveals its limits, as such benefits are contingent on the extent to which historian activists share their authority and the way they deal with public, as well as their own, emotions.
记忆行动主义的机遇与挑战:米滕瓦尔德抗议运动的案例(2002-2009)
本文通过一个具体的抗议活动的例子,探讨记忆行动主义如何有助于历史的民主化,在这场抗议活动中,其他团体和民间社会行动者中的激进历史学家攻击了以山地部队退伍军人协会为代表的“清洁国防军”的主导叙事。它询问活动家的公共历史方法及其对巴伐利亚米滕瓦尔德镇地方层面的影响,抗议活动发生在2002年至2009年之间,为了找出他们对另一种历史叙事的建构实际上是如何参与的。尽管记忆激进主义有明显的好处,尤其是在处理痛苦的过去时,但这篇文章也揭示了它的局限性,因为这种好处取决于历史学家积极分子分享他们的权威的程度,以及他们处理公众情绪和他们自己情绪的方式。
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International Public History
International Public History Arts and Humanities-History
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