Cultural Memory

A Meeting of Two Queens

by annette kuhn

To mark the Diamond Jubilee, here is thefinal draft of an essay about the Coronation, photography, memory and nationhood that appears in full in 'Family Secrets'.

'Mobilising Lidice: Cosmopolitan Memory between Theory and Practice'

by Jessica Rapson

Culture, Theory and Critique

This paper interrogates the orthodoxies of cosmopolitanism via the example of an emerging commemorative network... more This paper interrogates the orthodoxies of cosmopolitanism via the example of an emerging commemorative network surrounding the Czech village of Lidice, drawing attention to a disjunction between idealised theories of memory and actual, instrumental memory practice. Razed by Nazi officials as an act of retaliation for the assassination of Reinhardt Heydrich in Prague, 1942, Lidice's male inhabitants – mainly miners and factory workers – were shot, and women and children deported. In a notable example of productive transnational identification, a group of coal miners in Stoke-on-Trent, England began a fundraising initiative which resulted in the construction of a new Lidice overlooking the former site (1947). Whilst the field-defining work of Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider (2006) suggests that cosmopolitan memory-work avoids the homogenisation of Holocaust memories in the global sphere, I explore here the possibility that the complex motivations that guide such practices may undermine this premise.

Accordingly the paper explores inscriptions of Lidice into local contexts via processes of de-territorialisation and re-territorialisation, focusing on its mobilisation in the 21st century in an examination the twinning of Lidice with Khojaly, Azerbaijan (February 2010) and with Stoke-on-Trent (underway). Campaigners in Stoke aim to inaugurate a new museum restore the town's ‘emotional bond’ with Lidice (Alan Gerrard 2010), whereas in Khojaly Lidice's memory is polemically aligned with the massacre of over 600 Azerbaijanis during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between ethnic Armenians and the Republic of Azerbaijan (1988–1992). The chapter considers the Lidice's twinning network as an example of cosmopolitan, supranational ‘glocalisation’ (Levy and Sznaider 2006). Whilst both cases rely on a sense of global-local solidarity rendered possible by the mobilisation of Holocaust memory, the motivations that ground them are significantly divergent; this essay assesses to what extent this may interfere with the potential of the twinning initiatives discussed to avoid a global homogenisation of Holocaust memory.

Zur Frage des kollektiven Erinnerns. Die Semantik der Memoria

by Bodo Mrozek

published in: Merkur Nr. 66 (May 2012), S. 411-419

"Kaum ein geschichtlicher Grundbegriff hat eine ähnliche Erfolgsgeschichte hinter sich gebracht wie die Rede von... more "Kaum ein geschichtlicher Grundbegriff hat eine ähnliche Erfolgsgeschichte hinter sich gebracht wie die Rede von der kollektiven Erinnerung. Feiertag und Jubiläum, Denkmal, Museum oder Historiendrama im Fernsehen: All dies wird mittlerweile unter dem erweiterten Begriff einer umfassenden Memorialkultur vergesellschaftet. Im Feuilleton ist die Denkfigur eines Gruppengedächtnisses so ubiquitär wie in memorialpolitischen Ansprachen, so dass man darüber fast vergessen könnte, dass es sich ursprünglich einmal um einen sozialpsychologischen Fachbegriff handelte. [...]Doch auch wenn die Annahme eines überindividuellen Gedächtnisses inzwischen ganz selbstverständlich Eingang ins allgemeinsprachliche Vokabular findet, regt sich immer wieder Widerspruch. [...]"

Regional Cricket Identities: The Construction of Class Narratives and Their Relationship to Contemporary Supporters.

by Duncan Stone

http://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts/sport-and-leisure-history-seminars/regional-cricket-identities-construction-class

Cricket in the North and South of England, has historically been attributed or imagined in diametrically opposite and... more Cricket in the North and South of England, has historically been attributed or imagined in diametrically opposite and stereotyped terms Namely a competitive professional North and a genteel amateur South. This paper will examine the invention of these regionalised narratives, identify sources, and question the extent to which these opposing identities exist.

‘It's all friendly down there’: the Club Cricket Conference, amateurism and the cultural meaning of cricket in the South of England

by Duncan Stone

As the late Victorian and Edwardian upper classes' power declined, some of the sporting elites were determined to... more As the late Victorian and Edwardian upper classes' power declined, some of the sporting elites were determined to maintain their social and cultural hegemony. Within amateur club cricket, this was to be maintained by the Club Cricket Conference (CCC), the aims of which were to ‘control and safeguard amateur cricket along strictly non-competitive lines’. Although largely reactionary, the CCC, due in no small part to its social origins, exerted a disproportionate influence over amateur club cricket in the South of England – especially with regard to the aggressive suppression of leagues. Although the historiography suggests that the CCC were very successful in this endeavour, leagues and cups existed throughout the South from the early 1880s. The historical oversight of what became a predominantly working-class mode of cricket, and the games cultural meaning, reflects the social origins and influence of the CCC's elite founders (and many historians) over the game and its image.

Chaco Reloaded: Discursive Social Memory on the Post-Chacoan Landscape

by Ruth Van Dyke

Imagined Pasts Imagined: Memory & Ideology in Archaeology

by Ruth Van Dyke

Die Grenzen der Fiktionalisierung. Versuch über Imre Kertész’ "Dossier K. Eine Ermittlung" unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Jean Améry

by Karl Katschthaler

In: András F. Balogh / Helga Mitterbauer (Hg.): Gedächtnis und Erinnerung in Zentraleuropa. Jahrestagung 2007 des Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Komitees der Österreichischen und Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 20.-23. September 2007, Wien: Praesens, 2012

Hepper, E. G., Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Odyssey's end: Lay conceptions of nostalgia reflect its original Homeric meaning. Emotion, 12, 102-119

by Timothy D. Ritchie

Hepper, E. G., Ritchie, T. D., Sedikides, C., & Wildschut, T. (2012). Odyssey's end: Lay conceptions of nostalgia reflect its original Homeric meaning. Emotion, 12, 102-119. doi: 10.1037/a0025167

Nostalgia fulfills pivotal functions for individuals, but lacks an empirically derived and comprehensive definition.... more Nostalgia fulfills pivotal functions for individuals, but lacks an empirically derived and comprehensive definition. We examined lay conceptions of nostalgia using a prototype approach. In Study 1, participants generated open-ended features of nostalgia, which were coded into categories. In Study 2, participants rated the centrality of these categories, which were subsequently classified as central (e.g., memories, relationships, happiness) or peripheral (e.g., daydreaming, regret, loneliness). Central (as compared with peripheral) features were more often recalled and falsely recognized (Study 3), were classified more quickly (Study 4), were judged to reflect more nostalgia in a vignette (Study 5), better characterized participants’ own nostalgic (vs. ordinary) experiences (Study 6), and prompted higher levels of actual nostalgia and its intrapersonal benefits when used to trigger a personal memory, regardless of age (Study 7). These findings highlight that lay people view nostalgia as a self-relevant and social blended emotional and cognitive state, featuring a mixture of happiness and loss. The findings also aid understanding of nostalgia’s functions and identify new methods for future research.

Review of The Historiographical Jesus: Memory, Typology, and the Son of David, by Anthony Le Donne

by Josaphat Tam

Expository Times 123, no. 7 (2012): 361-362.

Family Photography as a phatic construction

by Patri Prieto

Published in 'Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network', Vol. 3, No. 2 (2010)

When the camera became a domestic consumer good, photography was adapted to the needs of private production and... more When the camera became a domestic consumer good, photography was adapted to the needs of private production and reception (Slater, 1991: 50). The family archive contains images of selfportrayal, whose form is oriented towards established patterns, like cartes-de-visite, since they are  received privately as well as in a quasi-public area (wallet, desk in an office etc.).

Family photography gains its performative character by means of its phatic function (Malinowski, 1923/1949: 315-7), inscribed in a historical and socio-cultural frame (Hirsch, M. 1997: 10-2). It actuates in the border between naivety and formality, and these Memory-Pictures (Keppler, 1994: 187) create an impression of reliability and authenticity by their ritualized reception.

The storage in a family archive and the perfomativity of its reception oscillate between the paradigm of scripture and the regime of narration (Langford, 2006: 227). The characterization of the media category ‘family photography’ by means of the phatic function of communication, and the identification of suitable tools for the analysis, are the topics of this article.

Memoria Colectiva y Ceremonias Conmemorativas. Una Aproximación Teórica

by David Diaz-Arias

Espacio de Palabras y rituales de solidaridad en Atocha

by Gérôme Truc

Published in Cristina Sánchez-Carretero (ed.), "El Archivo del Duelo. Análisis de la respuesta ciudadana ante los atentados del 11 de marzo en Madrid", Madrid, CSIC, 2011, p. 207-227.

“Ceremonia y memoria en Tuntún de Pasa y Grifería de Luis Palés Matos: una lectura desde las teorías del rito, la memoria y la teatralidad,” Inter.c.a.mbio (Costa Rica), No. 6 (2008), pp. 15-41.

by David Diaz-Arias

Trauma and Memory: The Impact of Apartheid-Era Forced Removals on Coloured Identity in Cape Town

by Henry Trotter

in Mohamed Adhikari (Ed.), Burdened by Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa (Cape Town: UCT Press, 2009), pp. 49-78

Communities often cohere around memories of historical suffering: yet coloured South Africans, a people whose diverse... more Communities often cohere around memories of historical suffering: yet coloured South Africans, a people whose diverse ancestry experienced enslavement, dispossession, genocidal extermination, and apartheid degradation, for the most part, they do not invest in remote historical traumas. Most coloured Capetonians instead focus upon a painful experience within living memory: the forced eviction of 150,000 coloured people from their homes and communities in the Cape Peninsula between 1957 and 1985 under the Group Areas Act. It is this experience that gives coloured identity vital resonance, especially amongst working class people, many of whom have yet to overcome the losses of that trauma.

Based on over one hundred life history interviews with coloured and African forced removees, this article examines the impact of Group Areas evictions on contemporary coloured identity. It suggests that, in the wake of mass social trauma, coloured removees coped with their pain by reminiscing with each other about the "good old days" in the destroyed communities. Their removal to racially defined townships ensured that they mainly shared their memories with other coloured people, and much less with African or Indian removees.

Apartheid social engineering to a large extent thus determined the spatial limits within which coloured memories circulated, creating a reflexive, mutually reinforcing pattern of narrative traffic. Over the past four decades, the constant circulation of these nostalgic stories has developed a "narrative community" amongst coloured people in the townships. This experience of popular sharing and support in the context of loss today gives coloured identity in Cape Town a dimension that would be lacking if it were only mobilized for political or economic purposes.

Travels to an Ancestral Past: On Diasporic Tourism, Embodied Memory, and Identity (2005)

by Naomi Leite

Antropológicas 9:273-302

This paper explores “roots tourism” as a diasporic identity practice. Drawing on accounts of voyages made by members... more This paper explores “roots tourism” as a diasporic identity practice. Drawing on accounts of voyages made by members of several different diasporic populations, I demonstrate that attention to individual tourist experience reveals a subjective focus on the sensing body as a key component of touristic “return” to ancestral homelands. Through sensory engagement with their physical surroundings, travelers undertake commemorative practices that somatically and imaginatively unite them with their forebears, thus bridging the diasporic rupture of past and present, ancestors and selves, homeland and exile.

Charlatans Chicanery

by Mohamed Eno

Thr poem is an excerpt from my forthcoming volume Guilt of Otherness

The volume is under review with a subject area expert and a literary critic. The volume is under review with a subject area expert and a literary critic.

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by Sabire Arık

A Mechanism for Multidisciplinary Dialogue: The Memory & . . . Series

by Hilton Kelly

Abstract, Dedication, and Acknowledgments for the Hobbs (2011) dissertation published by SAS.

by Robert Dean Hobbs

The Hobbs (2011) doctoral study is published in the ProQuest Dissertations and These database, UMI No. 3484309

The purpose of the qualitative research was to assess models of education developed for the study to investigate how... more The purpose of the qualitative research was to assess models of education developed for the study to investigate how and when to incorporate second and third languages into the curriculum to improve language acquisition. Research indicates that L3 enhances and reinforces L2 and L1. The stratified systematic grounded theory study explored the perspectives of neurolinguists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, and interdisciplinary education researchers to derive variables for constructing a new model of education. The outcome of the Internet survey revealed that 100% of the participants agreed that education must change and that teacher training must improve. Variables from the cross-disciplinary data contributed to the construction of an integrated model of multilingual education consisting of four primary models and other models to serve as tools for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessment as well as determining demographics and student meta-analysis of language abilities and storage in the brain. The first model emerged from the data to offer multilingual principles of education. The other primary models are macro, meso, and micro models. The macro model represents schools, instruction, assessment, and the curriculum cycle. The meso model depicts the developmental domains of the individual learner and includes a cyclical equation. The micro model delineates multilingual processing in the brain based on neurolinguistic research, variables from the current study, and Kees de Bot's bilingual adaptation of Levelt's language processing model. Recommendations include the incorporation of notional-functional pragmatic-aesthetic concepts as depicted in the models developed for the study and enhanced by input from published researchers with unique language and research repertoires who were located on four continents.