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The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

Elisabetta Viggiani(Autor*in)

Berghahn Books (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 1. August 2014

288 Seiten

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Beschreibung

If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: "Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves." This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose "official" collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.

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"Viggiani's text is a thorough examination of many of the iconic artefacts of a forty-year-long conflict that has shaped the politics and memories of generations of people from all sides of The Troubles. In addition to her text, she has developed an extensive website which more fully examines the quantitative data she has collected... her work will not only add to the compendium of extant work but expand our existing knowledge on memorialization in areas of conflict and recovery." ?Journal of Anthropological Research

"This is an excellent book that makes a major contribution by presenting the most comprehensive study yet written on the meaning and significance, past and present, of the ubiquitous political memorials that mark the urban terrain of one of the most famously politically divided cities in the world." ? CritCom - Council for European Studies

"Viggiani successfully chronicles both intergroup and intragroup forces and rivalries, while also exploring the makers and receivers of the emplaced narratives produced by multiple actors. The book is a valuable contribution to the anthropology of memory and of materiality, and it is also a timely reminder of the presence and prominence of substate and non-state agents in a world where it is often still assumed that states have a monopoly not only on power but on knowledge." ? Anthropology Review Database

"This is an excellent piece of work, one of the best of its kind. The ethnographic approach, with the actual testimonies, is very well done." ? Jack Santino, Bowling Green State University

"This is an excellent account of the reproduction of collective memory and its associated narratives. It delves into the nature and construction of memory and the related forms of propaganda and myth making therein. The inquiry into the construction of memorialization is vital for any scholar of divided societies, nation-building and community construction. The book is important in that it not only describes the processes of such construction but also pinpoints an analysis of the interpretation of meaning." ? Peter Shirlow, Queen's University Belfast

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Inhalt

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword by Hastings Donnan

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Memorials as Silent Extras or Scripted Actors?

Book Outline

Chapter 1. Collective Memory and the Politics of Memorialisation: a Theoretical Overview

Memory in the Social World: Collectiveness versus Individuality

The Shaping of Collective Memory: Present versus Past

Lieux de Memoireas Conveyors of Social Memory

Politicised Remembering: the Nexus between Memory and Power

The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration

The Memory Makers and the Projection of Narratives about the Past

Methodological Framework

Database of Memorials

Survey of Local Population

Interviews

Commemorations

Chapter 2. The Armalite and the Paintbrush: a Brief History of Memorialization of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

Commemorating during the Troubles

Funerals and Communal Burials

Annual Commemorations

The Mural Painting Tradition in Northern Ireland

The Early Years

Armed Struggle and Party-political Murals

Post-ceasefire and Peace Process Murals

The 1998 Agreement and the 'Boom' of Permanent Memorialization

Post-Agreement Murals

Permanent Memorials

Memorials to Paramilitary Combatants

Memorials to Civilian Casualties

Memorials to Security Forces

Memorials in Government Buildings, Party Offices, Workplaces and Churches

Commemorative Banners and Memorial Bands

Memorial Publications, Commemorative Pamphlets and Oral History Projects

Memorial Prizes, Awards and Trophies

Post-conflict Commemorations

Peace or Cross-community Memorials

Chapter 3. The 'Landscape of Memorialization' in Belfast: Spatial and Temporal Reflections

'New' Cultural Geography and the Concept of Landscape as 'Text'

Belfast and the Ethnicization of Space

The Spatial Dimension of Memorialization

Memorials as Territorial Markers

Memorials as Aide-Memoires

Memorials as Sacred Places

The Temporal Dimension of Memorialization

Memorials: End of the War or Continuation through Different Means?

Memorials: still here or never again?

Memorials as Identity 'Crutches'

Chapter 4. The 'Memory Makers' and the Projection of Narratives of the Troubles

Individual 'Stories' versus the Collective 'History' of the Troubles: the Power of the Narrative

Republican and Loyalist Memorials: the Projection of Opposing Narratives of The Troubles

Two Imagined Communities: Creating a Symbolic National Identification

Cherry-picking from History: Opposing Versions of a Shared Past

Ancestries of Resistance: Manufacturing Genealogies

Forgetting to Remember: Social Amnesia and Euphemization

Delegitimizing the Enemy: Demonization and Stigmatization

Talkative Dead Bodies: the Politics of Commemorations

Chapter 5. The Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden: Constructing a Dominant Republican Narrative

The 1998 Agreement and the Prisoners' 'Issue': the Formation of Ex-prisoners' Groups

The Greater Clonard Ex-Prisoners' Association

Enlisting the 'Unsung Heroes' in the Republican Narrative: Local History and Memorial Projects

The Clonard Martyrs Memorial GardeN

Planning Permission and Relationship with Local Authorities

Funding, Building Materials and Manpower

Construction of a Successful Dominant Narrative: Iconography, Language and Historical Selection

Perpetuating Collective Memory: Periodic cCommemorations in Clonard

Chapter 6. The IRSP/INLA Teach Na Failte Memorial Committee: Constructing a Sectional Republican Narrative

The IRSP/INLA Teach Na Failte Memorial Committee

Reclaiming a Place in History for the INLA: the 1981 Hunger Strike

Advancing a Sectional Narrative of the Troubles: the Belfast Teach Na Failte's Memorial Programme

Unveiling ceremonies

Provisional Republican and Republican Socialist Commemorations

Opposing the Dominant Republican Narrative: Post-1998 Republican Socialist Rhetoric

Chapter 7. The 1913 UVF and the Myth of the Somme: Constructing a Loyalist 'Golden Age'

'Lest We Forget': Loyalist Landscape of Memorialization

'From the Battlefields of the Somme to the Barricades of the Shankill': Borrowing Legitimacy

Mainstream Unionism, Republicanism and the Modern UVF Narrative

Disraeli Street: an Iconic Cluster of Memory

Loyalist Commemorations in Memory of Paramilitary Casualties

Changing with the History Tune: the Evolution of the UVF Narrative

Chapter 8. The UDA Sandy Row Memorial Garden: Attempting a Narrative of Symbolic Accretion

'You Are now Entering Loyalist Sandy Row'

Tiptoeing through History in Search of Illustrious 'Forefathers'

The Sandy Row Memorial Garden: Attempting to Appropriate the Myth of the Somme

Lay Out and Iconography

Role of Families in the Memorial Process

Remembrance Day

'What the World Needs now Is Love, Sweet love': 2007 UDA Remembrance Sunday

'Awakening the Sleeping Giant': Macro and Micropolitics at Commemorations

Chapter 9. Dissecting Consensus: Memory Receivers and the Narrative's 'Hidden Transcript'

Paramilitary Groups and Local Communities: a Complex Relationship

Coexisting in Ambivalence: Memorials and Local Residents

Consultation and 'Ownership'

Cohabiting the Same Space

Reasons behind Memorialization

Social Memory

Territorialization

Historical Change

Politico-ideological Exercise

Chapter 10. The Memory of the Dead: Seeking Common Ground?

At Last, a Common Ground in Northern Ireland?

Appendix A: List of Memorials

Appendix B: Emblems and Flags

Bibliography

Index

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