Memory StudiesPub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1177/17506980231195570
Sol Rojas-Lizana
{"title":"Memory discourses in visitor books of travelling exhibits in Southern Chile","authors":"Sol Rojas-Lizana","doi":"10.1177/17506980231195570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231195570","url":null,"abstract":"The Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Chile hosts regular travelling exhibits about the country’s recent traumatic past of 1973–1990. In this article, I study the visitor books (VBs) that accompanied travelling exhibits to the cities of Valdivia and Puerto Montt to examine their effect on the audience. The entries reflected a variety of writers, from younger generations to survivors and witnesses. The analysis shows that the VBs are used to exercise the right to memory, to confirm their ‘duty to remember’ manifested in the presence of transitional justice discourses, and to express emotions that seem to reflect a positive and healing effect. Moreover, it was proven that the nature of the visitor’s memory (direct or postmemory) would showcase different reactions to the exhibit experience.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45679037","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 : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1177/17506980231188482
Maddalena Tacchetti, Alexandra Chocontá-Piraquive, Natalia Quiceno Toro, Dimitris Papadopoulos
{"title":"Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia","authors":"Maddalena Tacchetti, Alexandra Chocontá-Piraquive, Natalia Quiceno Toro, Dimitris Papadopoulos","doi":"10.1177/17506980231188482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231188482","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses the reparative textile-making practices of three women’s sewing collectives in Colombia. Textile making and crafting is also a memory work which intersects and negotiates with different geographies, temporalities and scales of human subjectivity, social interaction and ecological belonging. We approach textile memory work as a practice embedded in a complex net of other everyday practices, spaces, and human and non-human beings, enabling the production of collective memories, while facilitating transformational processes by which women materially resignify and recover their communities affected by war. Textile memory work is a socially and ecologically situated practice of repair and reparation from below.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42333463","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 : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1177/17506980231190463
{"title":"Corrigendum to “The Archival Riot. Travesti/Trans* Audiovisual Memory Politics in Twenty-First Century Argentina”","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/17506980231190463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231190463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43069343","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 : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.1177/17506980231188483
Wenzhuo Zhang
{"title":"Heritage, memory and identity of Harbin: A confluence of Russian and Japanese colonial effects","authors":"Wenzhuo Zhang","doi":"10.1177/17506980231188483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231188483","url":null,"abstract":"Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang Province and China’s northernmost metropolis. The modern city of Harbin was founded by the Russians in 1898 and colonised by Russia and Japan during the first half of its 120-year history. After the Second World War, the post-colonial Harbin had to deal with its Russian and Japanese colonial pasts and their architectural remains. While the city initially tried to forget its colonial pasts by demolishing the colonial-era buildings, in recent decades, Harbin is re-remembering those pasts through the presentation and (re)interpretation of its colonial built heritage. It is noteworthy that the local government has approached Harbin’s Russian and Japanese colonial heritages in very different ways, and public opinion has polarised on the issue of colonisation regarding the city’s Russian and Japanese colonial pasts. Using archival analysis, observation and semi-structured interviews, this paper investigates the evolution of Harbin’s urban memory of the colonial pasts from both official and popular perspectives. It is argued that the different approaches to Russian and Japanese colonial heritages have historical reasons in cultural, economic and political terms and serve to achieve a common goal in the present, that is to construct a distinct and consistent identity for the city’s future. Further, post-colonial identity constructed in this way is questioned as it still does not overcome the self–other dichotomy that features in colonisation.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47638197","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 : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1177/17506980231191256
{"title":"Erratum to Introduction: Sites of reckoning special issue","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/17506980231191256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231191256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48001749","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 : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1177/17506980231188484
S. Haokip
{"title":"Memory and kinship across the Indo–Myanmar border: A study of the lived experiences of displaced Kuki families","authors":"S. Haokip","doi":"10.1177/17506980231188484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231188484","url":null,"abstract":"The crisis of India’s north-east is intertwined with the contestation of its history and memory. Its colonial spatial strategy and administrative policies – inherent in a series of ethnographic works – continue to have repercussions in the post-independence era. Therefore, memory as a border device is an important means of understanding the experiences and manoeuvres of the borderland communities. This article seeks to understand the challenges of violence and displacement faced by the Kuki community, which lives along the Indo–Myanmar border, in a conflict that has separated many families living in the north-eastern region. Following the independence of India, the dispute over territories in this region took a violent turn, leading to forced displacement and aggravating the problems of the borderland community. Based on a qualitative study among different generations of displaced Kuki families, this article argues that the intergenerational transmission of memories can be creatively used to generate responsibility and adjustment to the challenges of poverty and separation caused by the international border. It was also found that embodied memories of violence and displacement are transmitted across generations and that these memories can be creatively fashioned in the families’ everyday lives. Despite the challenges of mobility, elders continue to sustain a familial relationship across the border as the narratives they transmit to younger generations are often saturated with affective meaning, which foregrounds a mode of habitation and understanding of spatial imagination that is different from the present-day, hardened border.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42504556","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 : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1177/17506980231188480
Cornelia Ruhe
{"title":"Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film","authors":"Cornelia Ruhe","doi":"10.1177/17506980231188480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231188480","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, many authors around the world have taken on the difficult task of commemorating the unmourned dead caused by wars, terrorism or structural violence, or of giving them a literary burial. Their fictions, which I will call thanatographical fiction in the following, play a central role for the collective imaginary in that they provide an archive of knowledge on how violent death and grief are processed. The study of a comparative corpus shows that there is a transcultural and transmedial poetics of grief that serves to frame and channel emotions, to give them a form that allows access to them without sparking further excess. What I aim to demonstrate is that the common grounds of fictions from such diverse places as France, Québec, Senegal and Ukraine are that they can illustrate processes of the economy of emotions: in order to address the subject of violent death, they have to resort to different strategies of emotion control. By modulating emotions, texts and films influence both the regulation of grief and commemoration on one hand, and on the other, the reinforcement of collective identities. They can thus provide an instrument for reflecting on the interaction of grief and violence to gain a better understanding of it. I will thus analyse Wajdi Mouawad’s tetralogy of plays Le sang des promesses, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s novel De purs hommes, Valentyn Vasyanovych’s film Atlantis and Julie Ruocco’s novel Furies to elaborate a first draft of a thanatographical poetics of grief.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42922527","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 : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176043b
Ashley Barnwell
{"title":"Book review: Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective","authors":"Ashley Barnwell","doi":"10.1177/17506980231176043b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176043b","url":null,"abstract":"Dos Santos CS, McCarroll CJ and Sant’Anna A (2023) The relation between memory and imagination: a debate about the right concepts. In: Sant’Anna A, McCarroll CJ and Michaelian K (eds) Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory. New York: Routledge, pp. 38–58. McCarroll C (2018) Remembering from the Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press. McCarroll C (2020) Remembering the personal past: beyond the boundaries of imagination. Frontiers in Psychology 11: 585352. Michaelian K and Sutton J (2019) Collective mental time travel: remembering the past and imagining the future together. Synthese 196: 4933–4960. Perrin D (2016) Asymmetries in subjective time. In: Michaelian K, Klein SB and Szpunar KK (eds) Seeing the Future: Theoretical Perspectives on Future-Oriented Mental Time Travel. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 39–61. Robins SK (2020) Defending discontinuism, naturally. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 11(2): 469–486. Sant’Anna A (2021) Attitudes and the (dis)continuity between memory and imagination. Estudios de Filosofía 64: 73–93.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"1026 - 1028"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42794941","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 : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176043c
Kanchan Panday
{"title":"Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”","authors":"Kanchan Panday","doi":"10.1177/17506980231176043c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176043c","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"1029 - 1032"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48463320","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 : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176043a
J. C. Camillo
{"title":"Book review: Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination","authors":"J. C. Camillo","doi":"10.1177/17506980231176043a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176043a","url":null,"abstract":"interpretations. This book exemplifies this research approach excellently. Moreover, despite its relatively narrow focus, it is a perfect example of the syncretic nature of current philosophical research on memory, where philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, cognitive science, epistemology, and other fields not covered in the book (such as the affective sciences and ethics) are joining their forces to understand such an important human (and maybe also non-human) capacity.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"1023 - 1026"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48584493","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}