Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1177/17506980221150891a
J. Apsel
{"title":"Book review: Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence","authors":"J. Apsel","doi":"10.1177/17506980221150891a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221150891a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"501 - 504"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48214788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1177/17506980221150891c
S. Waterman
{"title":"Book review: An Everlasting Name: Cultural Remembrance and Traditions of Onymic Commemoration","authors":"S. Waterman","doi":"10.1177/17506980221150891c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221150891c","url":null,"abstract":"authors argue that the project creates a platform for the disaster stories of Langtangpas, employing memory work as ‘a recursive and adaptive process of gathering’ (p. 365). In the final chapter, ‘Bhukampa: Nepali Recitations of an Earthquake Aftermath’, Michael Hutt focusses on Nepali poetry post-earthquake. He investigates the literary form of memory by questioning whether the contents of poetry are an ‘endogenous response’ (p. 368) and, if so, how they differ from the broader ‘endogenous response’ to life. Hutt identifies six poetry motifs relating to the disaster: anguish and determination, witness, the bhukampa (earthquake) as a punisher, the bhukampa as unifier and leveller, the distribution of loss, and political anger and distrust. Although the poets are mainly men from dominant castes, they are also individuals with personal subjectivities and in the poems, they express a general unity as a Nepali nation. Overall, this edited work is of special significance in the field of disaster studies since it was completed by multidisciplinary authors who specialise in Nepal and Himalayan studies; of the 33 authors, 14 are Nepali nationals (p. 17). The work combines the memory of the past and the ongoing memorisation in an integrative collection, which encompasses memory studies and spans the timeline of an entire event. The volume raises many useful questions and presents valuable evidence, particularly for researchers and readers interested in disaster studies and contemporary Himalayan and South Asian studies.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"507 - 509"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43351397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1177/17506980221150891
Jocelyn S Martin
{"title":"Book review: Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature","authors":"Jocelyn S Martin","doi":"10.1177/17506980221150891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221150891","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"498 - 501"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48455542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-29DOI: 10.1177/17506980221150891b
Jingwei Li
{"title":"Book review: Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal’s Earthquakes","authors":"Jingwei Li","doi":"10.1177/17506980221150891b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221150891b","url":null,"abstract":"The above descriptions give the potential reader a sample of the volume’s important, thoughtprovoking essays. However, the volume could be strengthened in a number of ways. For example, the editors’ introduction would benefit from further contextualization about what is described as the volume’s launching of ‘an interdisciplinary inquiry into the science of remembrance and forgiveness’ (p. 3). How does this fit within (or substantially differ from) the history and growing literature of genocide and memory studies and related fields, which for decades have been focused on these same issues of transitional justice, remembrance, and forgiveness. The editors also missed an opportunity by leaving the reader very much on his or her own to pick and choose which articles and themes might be of interest. While the essays are in conversation with one another, for most readers more guidance on the content and parameters of such dialogues would be helpful. This would include expanding the brief introduction to include more about the editors (who put together such an outstanding collection, but do not contribute an essay or conclusion to the volume) and their positionality, as well as further discussion of thematic links. If there is a second edition—and I hope there will be, as this volume has potential for widespread use in relevant courses—this reviewer suggests a more detailed introduction and conclusion by the editors and, most importantly, a thematic reorganization of the contributions with short introductions to the key themes and frameworks in each section. This kind of editorial guidance would help readers (and I am particularly thinking of students) make connections between the rich and varied 16 case studies in the volume. In conclusion, Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence, with its excellent array of case studies ranging from Timor-Leste and Ethiopia to Rwanda and Argentina, is a collection of outstanding essays that will be of interest to many different audiences.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"504 - 507"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45393682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1177/17506980231155556
Monica Klasing Chen
{"title":"Between remembrance and commerce: Writing a painting treatise in nineteenth-century Shanghai","authors":"Monica Klasing Chen","doi":"10.1177/17506980231155556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231155556","url":null,"abstract":"This study takes a socio-historical approach to analyze a case of how practical painting knowledge was historicized during nineteenth-century China. After the Taiping War (1850–1864), a civil war that left urban centers in the cultural heartland of China in ruins, scholars sought to recover and commemorate the past. The professional painter Dai Yiheng publicly engaged his traumatic war experience to cater to a new audience of foreign students in Shanghai. The tension between the commercial environment of Shanghai and his personal experience becomes visible in both his paintings and writings. Through a practice of temporal layering in his work, Dai managed to combine the demands of his profession and his personal trauma.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"1313 - 1327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46266264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1177/17506980231155596
Katarina Ristić
{"title":"Far-right digital memory activism: Transnational circulation of memes and memory of Yugoslav wars","authors":"Katarina Ristić","doi":"10.1177/17506980231155596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231155596","url":null,"abstract":"The terrorist attacks in Norway in 2011 and New Zealand in 2019 have revealed that the far-right worldwide uses the memory of the Yugoslav wars for online mobilization. Scholars working on memory activism usually deal with the liberal, self-critical memory emerging from the bottom-up activism of human rights groups while neglecting the activism of the far-right. This article fills the gap by addressing the global circulation of two memes, Remove Kebab and Pepe the Frog, as examples of far-right memory activism. In order to address the transnational circulation of memes as memory activism, this article employs the concept of ‘traveling memory’ while relying on multimodal discourse analysis to unveil the processes of memetic transformation, imitation, iconization and narrativization. The analysis reveals an alternative memory of Yugoslav wars that depicts Serbia as the first case of ‘white genocide’ in Europe, reversing the roles of war criminals and victims while propagating violence and celebrating genocide. The article argues that memory studies can no longer ignore memory production of far-right communities and, at the same time, outlines the method for examining far-right digital memory activism, revealing a whole set of mnemonic practices developed among the anonymous fringe communities of the far-right.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49274819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-03-07DOI: 10.1177/17506980231155569
Gloria Román Ruiz
{"title":"Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes","authors":"Gloria Román Ruiz","doi":"10.1177/17506980231155569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231155569","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the echoes that resonate in the present of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) during the post-war period of Franco’s dictatorship. More specifically, it analyses both the bodily and mental effects of those traumatic memories on the survivors’ subsequent dietary practices and their perceptions of the socio-political reality. For this purpose, the study relies on the first-hand personal memories of those who were children during the 1940s. It is argued that there are continuities between these embodied memories and the eating habits of the survivors and their attitudes towards subsequent periods of prosperity and crisis.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45294597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.1177/17506980231155562
S. Arnold, Sebastian Bischoff
{"title":"Marginal(ized) plurality: An empirical conceptualization of Michael Rothberg’s “multidirectional memory” in German educational settings","authors":"S. Arnold, Sebastian Bischoff","doi":"10.1177/17506980231155562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231155562","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we apply Michael Rothberg’s concept of “multidirectional memory” to an empirical setting, by analyzing qualitative interviews with 124 educators in the field of memory work, such as museum and memorial site employees, teachers, volunteers of non-governmental organizations, and civil society initiatives. We analyzed where they come across memory conflicts and commonality, and what the respective “enabling conditions” were, that is, the influencing factors that promoted or prevented developments toward multidirectionality in the sense of a “differentiated solidarity.” We found only a few examples of this kind of multidirectional memory in educational settings. It was fostered by four factors: personal autobiographical experiences, political positions, structural/institutional aspects, and certain pedagogical principles. By contrast, different forms of competitive memory were dominant: first, “Conflicting Memory” characterized by differing politics; second, “Divided Memory” characterized by a perception of resource competition; and third, “Fragmented Memory,” consisting of a form of sympathetic ignorance by which memories of other groups or events are tolerated, but not actively interlinked. Central topics that emerge within memory conflicts and entanglements are the history of National Socialism, World War II and the Shoah, the history of the state of Israel and the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the Armenian Genocide, the history of the Ottoman Empire and—to a lesser extent—the history of colonialism. We argue that much can be gained by applying Rothberg’s concept to contemporary empirical settings, both in order to understand its current implications but also to help flesh out its underlying theoretical notions. These are regarding possible “negative” forms of multidirectional memory, as well as the implications and ethics of historical comparisons.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49280932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.1177/17506980231155577
Jieheerah Yun
{"title":"The counter-monument as mnemonic device: The case of the Statues of Peace in South Korea","authors":"Jieheerah Yun","doi":"10.1177/17506980231155577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231155577","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the removal and restoration of the “Statues of Peace” in South Korea. Although the presence of the statues has generated political tensions, various attempts to take down the statues have been met with recalcitrance and restorations. This article argues that processes of demolishing, re-erecting, and making modifications to the monuments function as ways of provoking a public debate, in the process becoming themselves a mnemonic device. This article concludes that despite criticisms of the concept of counter-monument, first formulated by James E. Young, this concept can become a valuable design tool if it is understood as a continuum rather than a binary construct. This study contributes to the current academic debate regarding counter-monuments and urban memorials by illustrating how the tactics of the counter-monument may vary.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47102914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-02-28DOI: 10.1177/17506980231155560
Xavier Roigé, A. Canals, Marta Rico
{"title":"Creating memory of COVID-19: The actions of museums and archives in Spain","authors":"Xavier Roigé, A. Canals, Marta Rico","doi":"10.1177/17506980231155560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231155560","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic is an historic event that has affected the entire world, but since it has been experienced differently in each country, locality and family, it will also be remembered in different ways. This article provides an analysis of the ways in which museums and archives have sought to document the pandemic in Spain to create memory discourses for the future. This includes an account of the subjects that have been documented, the exhibitions held, the online and in situ initiatives undertaken, and the nature of physical and virtual items collected. The museums and archival institutions have collected many documents, images and physical objects that will play an important role in the creation of memories about COVID-19 in the future.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48538636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}