Memory and political change

edited by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt

While it is well-known that memory is open to constant changes and transformations, this book adopts an innovative approach, emphasizing memory's role as a powerful agent of change. While political systems may change comparatively quickly, the social and cultural processes of adaptation and transformation take considerably longer. This volume explores memory as both a medium of and an impediment to change, offering an inroad into the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures. Written by authors from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, the essays chart the terrain andsupply well-documented case studiesto extend knowledge on the relationship between social and political memory and the transition process.

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While it is well-known that memory is open to constant changes and transformations, this book adopts an innovative approach, emphasizing memory's role as a powerful agent of change. While political systems may change comparatively quickly, the social and cultural processes of adaptation and transformation take considerably longer. This volume explores memory as both a medium of and an impediment to change, offering an inroad into the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures. Written by authors from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, the essays chart the terrain andsupply well-documented case studiesto extend knowledge on the relationship between social and political memory and the transition process.

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[目次]

  • Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword: Remembrance as a Human Right
  • J.Winter Introduction
  • A.Assmann & L.Shortt PART I: TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss
  • G.Schwab The Emotional Legacy of the Nazi Past in Post-War Germany
  • G.Brockhaus PART II: INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE To Remember or to Forget: Which Way out of a Shared History of Violence? A.Assmann Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide
  • S.Buckley-Zistel From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic Transitions
  • B.Weiffen PART III: RE-IMAGINING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE Re-Imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic: Jana Hensel, GDR Memory and the Transitional Generation
  • L.Shortt South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu
  • M.Reif-Huelser 'That's Not a Story I Could Tell': Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation
  • A.Schwarz PART IV: RESISTANCE TO CHANGE Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory
  • J.V.Wertsch The 'Myth' of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for 'Georgianness'
  • N.Batiashvili Memory across Cultures
  • A.H.Gutchess & M.Siegel Index

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[目次]

  • Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword: Remembrance as a Human Right
  • J.Winter Introduction
  • A.Assmann & L.Shortt PART I: TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss
  • G.Schwab The Emotional Legacy of the Nazi Past in Post-War Germany
  • G.Brockhaus PART II: INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE To Remember or to Forget: Which Way out of a Shared History of Violence? A.Assmann Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide
  • S.Buckley-Zistel From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic Transitions
  • B.Weiffen PART III: RE-IMAGINING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE Re-Imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic: Jana Hensel, GDR Memory and the Transitional Generation
  • L.Shortt South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu
  • M.Reif-Huelser 'That's Not a Story I Could Tell': Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation
  • A.Schwarz PART IV: RESISTANCE TO CHANGE Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory
  • J.V.Wertsch The 'Myth' of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for 'Georgianness'
  • N.Batiashvili Memory across Cultures
  • A.H.Gutchess & M.Siegel Index

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この本の情報

書名 Memory and political change
著作者等 Assmann, Aleida
Shortt Linda
シリーズ名 Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
出版元 Palgrave Macmillan
刊行年月 2012
ページ数 xviii, 223 p.
大きさ 22 cm
ISBN 9780230302006
9780230301993
NCID BB07552662
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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