Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State
Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-conflict Settings
1st Edition
Published on 22. May 2023
278 pages
978-1-000-87727-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume suggests a model of collective memory that distinguishes between two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation: vertical fragmentation and horizontal fragmentation. It offers a series of case studies of conflict and post-conflict collective memory, shedding light on the ways various actors participate in the production, dissemination, and contestation of memory discourses.
With attention to the characteristics of both vertical and horizontal memory fragmentation, the book addresses the plurality of diverging, and often conflicting, memory discourses that are produced within the public sphere of a given community. It analyzes the juxtaposition, tensions, and interactions between narratives produced beyond or below the central state, often transcending national boundaries.
The book is structured according to the type of actors involved in a memory fragmentation process. It explores how states have been trying to produce and impose memory discourses on civil societies, sometimes even against the experiences of their own citizens, and how such efforts as well as backlash from actors below and beyond the state have led to horizontal and vertical memory fragmentation. Furthermore, it considers the attempts by states' representatives to reassert control of national memory discourses and the subsequent resistances they face. As such, this volume will appeal to sociology and political science scholars interested in memory studies in post-conflict societies.
With attention to the characteristics of both vertical and horizontal memory fragmentation, the book addresses the plurality of diverging, and often conflicting, memory discourses that are produced within the public sphere of a given community. It analyzes the juxtaposition, tensions, and interactions between narratives produced beyond or below the central state, often transcending national boundaries.
The book is structured according to the type of actors involved in a memory fragmentation process. It explores how states have been trying to produce and impose memory discourses on civil societies, sometimes even against the experiences of their own citizens, and how such efforts as well as backlash from actors below and beyond the state have led to horizontal and vertical memory fragmentation. Furthermore, it considers the attempts by states' representatives to reassert control of national memory discourses and the subsequent resistances they face. As such, this volume will appeal to sociology and political science scholars interested in memory studies in post-conflict societies.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
3 Tables, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-87727-4 (9781000877274)
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Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-conflict Settings
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Anne Bazin | Emmanuelle Hebert | Valerie Rosoux
Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State
Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-conflict Settings
Book
05/2023
1st Edition
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Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Eric Sangar is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, University of Lille, France, as well as Fellow at the Marc Bloch Centre, Berlin, Germany.
Valerie Rosoux is Research Director at the FNRS and Professor in Political Science at UCLouvain, Belgium, as well as Fellow at the Max Planck Institutes Luxembourg and Halle, Luxembourg and Germany.
Anne Bazin is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, University of Lille, France.
Emmanuelle Hebert External Scientific Fellow at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain Europe (ISPOLE) at UCLouvain, Belgium.
Valerie Rosoux is Research Director at the FNRS and Professor in Political Science at UCLouvain, Belgium, as well as Fellow at the Max Planck Institutes Luxembourg and Halle, Luxembourg and Germany.
Anne Bazin is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, University of Lille, France.
Emmanuelle Hebert External Scientific Fellow at the Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain Europe (ISPOLE) at UCLouvain, Belgium.
Content
Table of contents
Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hebert, Valerie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Introduction: "Memory fragmentation" as a new heuristic tool to grasp the dynamics of political uses of the past in conflict and post-conflict settings
Civil society actors
Stipe Odak: Construction of Victimhood and its Fragmentation within National Frameworks
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic: Gender, Memory and Peace: Struggles between Homogenisation and Fragmentation
Elise Feron: Conflict memories and gender-based violence: from silencing to standardization
Elise Julien: The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraeberfuersorge: a century of memory negotiations in Germany
Thomas Serrier: Pluralism at stake: Rebelling provinces and the national master narrative in the German-Polish memories after the end of the Cold War
Delphine Griveaud & Solveig Hennebert: The PSG Ultras' annual commemoration of the 13 November 2015 terrorist attacks: a window on collective memory
Historians
Sandra Rios Oyola: The Fragmentation of Historical Memory in Colombia
Emmanuelle Hebert: Transforming Polish-German Past: Toward a common narrative?
Valentin Behr: When historians contribute to the fragmentation of memories: The case of "Polish-Jewish relations" during World War II
Soldiers and military organizations
Mathias Delori: Understanding the fragmentation of the memory of the Allied bombings of World War II: The role of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Christophe Wasinski: Present wars as catalysts of fragmented memories of past wars: the use of the Algerian War in the context of the French deployment in Afghanistan
Eric Sangar: "Hurra, wir koennen's noch!": How NATO's counterinsurgency doctrine uncovered German civil-military memory fragmentation
Antoine Younsi: "Paying a blood debt" or "Liberating Africa"? The postcolonial fragmentation of French military and political memory frames during the Operation Serval in Mali (2013-2014)
Transnational organizations
Valerie Rosoux: Can NGOs do away with the 'tyranny of the past'? Strategies against memory fragmentation in Rwanda
Thomas Richard: ANNA News as a transnational memory entrepreneur? Uses of the Past in the Coverage of the Syrian Civil War by Russian-language media
Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hebert, Valerie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Conclusion: overall findings and implications for the heuristic and normative value of "memory fragmentation"
Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hebert, Valerie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Introduction: "Memory fragmentation" as a new heuristic tool to grasp the dynamics of political uses of the past in conflict and post-conflict settings
Civil society actors
Stipe Odak: Construction of Victimhood and its Fragmentation within National Frameworks
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic: Gender, Memory and Peace: Struggles between Homogenisation and Fragmentation
Elise Feron: Conflict memories and gender-based violence: from silencing to standardization
Elise Julien: The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraeberfuersorge: a century of memory negotiations in Germany
Thomas Serrier: Pluralism at stake: Rebelling provinces and the national master narrative in the German-Polish memories after the end of the Cold War
Delphine Griveaud & Solveig Hennebert: The PSG Ultras' annual commemoration of the 13 November 2015 terrorist attacks: a window on collective memory
Historians
Sandra Rios Oyola: The Fragmentation of Historical Memory in Colombia
Emmanuelle Hebert: Transforming Polish-German Past: Toward a common narrative?
Valentin Behr: When historians contribute to the fragmentation of memories: The case of "Polish-Jewish relations" during World War II
Soldiers and military organizations
Mathias Delori: Understanding the fragmentation of the memory of the Allied bombings of World War II: The role of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Christophe Wasinski: Present wars as catalysts of fragmented memories of past wars: the use of the Algerian War in the context of the French deployment in Afghanistan
Eric Sangar: "Hurra, wir koennen's noch!": How NATO's counterinsurgency doctrine uncovered German civil-military memory fragmentation
Antoine Younsi: "Paying a blood debt" or "Liberating Africa"? The postcolonial fragmentation of French military and political memory frames during the Operation Serval in Mali (2013-2014)
Transnational organizations
Valerie Rosoux: Can NGOs do away with the 'tyranny of the past'? Strategies against memory fragmentation in Rwanda
Thomas Richard: ANNA News as a transnational memory entrepreneur? Uses of the Past in the Coverage of the Syrian Civil War by Russian-language media
Anne Bazin, Emmanuelle Hebert, Valerie Rosoux & Eric Sangar: Conclusion: overall findings and implications for the heuristic and normative value of "memory fragmentation"
