{"title":"Patriotic Histories in Global Perspective","authors":"Kornelia Kończal, A. Moses","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968136","url":null,"abstract":"The spectre of “patriotism” continues to haunt countries around the world. In 2015, Patriot Park was opened in Kubinka, one hour’s drive from Moscow. Combining the Main Cathedral of the Russian Arm...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"153 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44811770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patriotic History in Postcolonial Germany, Thirty Years After “Reunification”","authors":"Sabine Volk","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968151","url":null,"abstract":"Germany has long been championed for its exemplary Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung: its selfcritical “working through the past.” Centred around the commemoration of the Holocaust as a “breach of civilization” (Zivilisationsbruch), the emphatic rejection of antisemitism, and loyalty to the state of Israel, the country’s official politics of memory and public culture of remembrance allegedly renounce nationalistic interpretations of the past. So intense is the imperative to avoid apologetic gestures and implications of German self-pity that the documentation centre “Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation,” which opened in June 2021 in Berlin, commemorates the experiences of the millions of Germans expelled from East Central Europe after the Second World War by relating them closely to Nazi terror. Even “happy” memories of recent episodes, notably the so-called reunification of former East and West Germany in 1990, tend to be superseded by the commemoration of the Shoah. At the same time, however, uncritical “patriotic history” is gaining ground. For many observers, patriotic history is mainly associated with the rise of the far right, notably the party Alternative for Germany (AfD), the social movement organization “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident” (PEGIDA), and the anti-lockdown mobilization of the so-called lateral thinkers (Querdenker) in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. Propagating nationalist and revisionist readings of the past, such","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"276 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41421253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Only Possible Ideology”: Nationalizing History in Putin’s Russia","authors":"Nikolay Koposov","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968148","url":null,"abstract":"The 1993 Russian Constitution forbade any “State or obligatory” ideology.1 The 2020 constitutional reform has left this provision unchanged, although many pro-Kremlin politicians had called for ame...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"205 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48562236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smothering Diversity: Patriotism in China’s School Curriculum under Xi Jinping","authors":"E. Vickers","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968142","url":null,"abstract":"“The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.” So begins The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義),1 set amidst the Han Dynasty’s slow collapse early in the Common Era. The fragil...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"158 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43577490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Baltic Model of Civic-Patriotic History","authors":"Violeta Davoliūtė","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968145","url":null,"abstract":"The transition away from communist rule “no longer represents the dominant political paradigm in Eastern Europe,” according to Krawatzek and Soroka. Instead, they associate the recent rise of illiberal nationalism, nativist populism, and a backlash against the project of European integration with the “framing of present-day political debates through recourse to contentious historical narratives” rooted in the experience of the Second World War. As far as the Baltic States are concerned, this proposition needs to be refined. The framing of politics by contested history is neither new in this region, nor should it be associated primarily with the rise of populism. Rather, it lay at the core of the restoration of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as independent and democratic states three decades ago. “Arguably more than in other former communist countries,” Eva-Clarita Pettai writes, “the democratic revolutions in the Baltic countries were as much about re-conquering the country’s history as they were about securing an independent and democratic future.” The contentious history in question was and remains the history of Baltic statehood, which began in the wake of the First World War and was “paused” with the launch of the Second. The first public assembly held in Lithuania on 23 August 1987 tested the waters of glasnost by condemning the signing of the non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union on that day in 1939. Exactly two years later, on 23 August 1989, a human chain of two million individuals spanned across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in a mass expression of popular support for national independence. When the Baltic States regained their independence in 1991, they did not create new states or secede from the USSR but re-established the states that were annexed in August 1940. Given the inseparable nature of post-communist transition and patriotism in the Baltic States, the question of populism and illiberalism voiced above might be reframed as follows. Has the model of patriotic history born in 1989 retained its integrity? Does it","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"264 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42883055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Illiberal Memory Politics in Hungary","authors":"A. Pető","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968150","url":null,"abstract":"In June 2021, the mayor of the small Hungarian village of Hajdubagos unveiled the statue of Admiral Horthy, praising him as a democrat who “fought equally against communism and fascism.” The unveil...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"241 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44861913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Israeli Memory: From a Moment of Retrospection to Regulating the Past","authors":"Y. Gutman","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968144","url":null,"abstract":"Israeli memory never ceased to be ethno-national, featuring a Zionist ideology and mythical trajectory that leads from the biblical homeland to the resettlement of the Jewish people under a Jewish State. The displacement and dispossession of Palestinians since the 1948 war (known as al-Nakba, the catastrophe in Arabic) and the occupation of the Palestinian Territories (OPT) in the West bank and Gaza since 1967 have not been a part of this narrative, but featured in an opposite Palestinian national narrative. The Nakba has been forcefully forgotten not only by the promulgation of the Zionist national narrative, but also through the destruction of physical remains and a systemic dissemination of a new symbolic geography, replacing the Palestinian names of sites and streets with Hebrew ones. Since the early 1990s, the Zionist discourse has increasingly introspected a deep tension, or outright contradiction, at its heart between its national principle and its liberal (formerly collective and socialist) principle. According to this debate, the tension is inherent to Israel’s self-identification as both Jewish and democratic; while a Jewish state excludes non-Jewish minorities, a democracy is supposed to guarantee equal civil rights to all citizens. Within this Zionist discourse, two alternative approaches to the past and present that emerged since the 1980s have gradually undermined mainstream Zionism, aiming to resolve the core tension by retaining one side of the designation and discarding the other: the ethno-religious Neo-Zionism (Jewish), and the more critical and global post-","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"195 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47486810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holodomor and the Holocaust in Ukraine as Cultural Memory: Comparison, Competition, Interaction","authors":"G. Kasianov","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968146","url":null,"abstract":"The Great Famine of 1932–33 (called Holodomor or “murder by hunger”) and the Holocaust both occurred on the territory of contemporary Ukraine in the 1930s–40s. Both events were objects of deliberat...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"216 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47250824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politics of Innocence: Holocaust Memory in Poland","authors":"Kornelia Kończal","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968147","url":null,"abstract":"In post-1989 Poland, the primary struggle over the state-sponsored politics of memory revolved around the concept of “critical patriotism” (patriotyzm krytyczny). Advanced in the early 1980s by the...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"250 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41931944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Britain’s Culture War: Disguising Imperial Politics as Historical Debate about Empire","authors":"P. Satia","doi":"10.1080/14623528.2021.1968137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968137","url":null,"abstract":"In step with many governments today, the current British government has consistently attacked scholarly efforts to understand imperialism and its legacies. Instead, it foists a historical narrative...","PeriodicalId":46849,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Genocide Research","volume":"24 1","pages":"308 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48076524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}