Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: the Testimonial Project of ‘Breaking the Silence’

Katriel, Tamar; Shavit, Nimrod

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“…Defining collective memory as "a cultural field of struggle over meanings and values" (Katriel and Shavit 2011), I am interested in the Journal of Borderlands Studies | 2015 processes of integration or re-negotiation of the dominant memory frameworks by the oppositional or alternative voices (in our case, personal memories) as well as in the role, which the media discourse plays in re-shaping the national memory as an institutionally controlled milieu.…”

Section: Theoretical Framementioning

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Reinstating Social Borders between the Slavic Majority and the Tatar Population of Crimea: Media Representation of the Contested Memory of the Crimean Tatars’ Deportation

Bezverkha

2015

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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The study examines the patterns of media representation of the Crimean Tatars' deportation of 1944, in particular discursive strategies of exclusions and inclusions based on territorial and ethnic markers of collective identity. The study puts forward the argument that the Russian political and cultural dominance prevails in the media discourse of Crimea, often suppressing the voice and agency of the ethnic minority groups, such as the Crimean Tatars. The public debate over the collective memory of deportation, its historical significance for the Tatars and its consequences is often framed in terms of the post-Soviet "official" version of historical metanarrative, the issue of the political responsibility is omitted, while Soviet-molded images of the "treachery" of the Crimean Tatar people are being reproduced in the media. This study demonstrates how the Crimean Tatar ethnic media outlets develop their own counter-discourse of deportation by means of publicizing personal narratives of the deportation survivors, thus promoting their alternative version of the memory of deportation portrayed as mass repression against the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet totalitarian regime. Even though the recent events in Crimea show that borders may change de facto, without changing de jure, this study, conducted during the period of 2010-2012, could still shed light on the logic behind the social borders constructed within the Crimean multiethnic society.

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Reinstating Social Borders between the Slavic Majority and the Tatar Population of Crimea: Media Representation of the Contested Memory of the Crimean Tatars’ Deportation

Bezverkha

2015

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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“…The therapeutic aims were clear, as the exhibition turned into a performative arena that mediated the war experience in multiple ways (see also Katriel and Shavit, 2011: 77). The exhibition was constructed in ways that amplified the lived experience (Lorenz, 2010: 88) and placed the audience in the midst of real-life events.…”

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“…Eyewitnesses of different ages contributed their own and their family members’ recollections of the war, and the accounts were videotaped and shown at the exhibition. The creation of testimonials is a soul-searching process through which people encounter their pasts and reflect on moral questions (Katriel and Shavit, 2011: 81). As such, testimonials resemble therapeutic encounters that aim to bring out the repressed memories as well as understand and renegotiate their meaning.…”

Section: Mediating the Civil War Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social memory is increasingly a contingent product of social and political actions and a ground for further action (e.g. Misztal, 2003: 69–73; Zelizer, 1995), that can thrive to transform our relation to the past and open up new frames of action (Assman, 2012; Assman and Shortt, 2012: 3–5; Dekel, 2009; Katriel and Shavit, 2011; Teneboim-Weinblatt, 2008; Till, 2008; Trigg, 2009).…”

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The therapeutic imaginary in memory work: Mediating the Finnish Civil War in Tampere

Kantola

2013

Memory Studies

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The article analyses reconciliatory practices on war remembrance that draw from the imaginary of therapy. The decisive battles of the Finnish Civil War took place on the streets of Tampere in 1918. Only 90 years later, in 2008, was the city of Tampere able to organise a remembrance process, which mediated the war memory through exhibition, street drama, online discussion forums and mainstream media. The remembrance encouraged the disclosure of hidden memories, broke down predatory stereotypes and addressed the transgenerational victimhood and the guilt. I suggest that the case exemplifies a shift in how societies remember: The contemporary, more individualised and plural societies saturated with therapeutic practices are prone to adopt bottom-up and participatory memory practices. At the same time, however, the article points to the limits of memory work. It is not a magic wand for doing away with past injustices. In Tampere, it was possible only for the grandchildren of the war generation.

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“…“Collective memory,” as an analytic concept, still dominates our reflections on the manner in which nations and societies think about and represent their histories. Researchers from many countries and numerous disciplines, especially history, continue to contribute to the discourse on CM: politics (Ergur, 2009; Rahman, 2010), sociology and cultural studies (Colak, 2006; West, 2008), discourse analysis (Tilega, 2008), media (Lachover and Gavriely-Nuri, 2011; Meyers et al, 2009; Neiger et al, 2011; Zandberg, 2010), psychology (Saito, 2006), gender studies (Liebman, 2004), ethics (Gavriely-Nuri and Lachover, 2012; Katriel and Shavit, 2011; Margalit, 2002), cognitive science (Wilson, 2005), the plastic arts (Marcuse, 2010) and even music (Sheffi, 2004).…”

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Collective memory as a metaphor: The case of speeches by Israeli prime ministers 2001–2009

Gavriely-Nuri

2013

Memory Studies

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This paper presents a critical reading of the metaphor “collective memory”, coined by the French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs in the 1920s. The main argument is that collective memory scholars have lost awareness of the concept’s metaphoric character and have come to perceive the concept as expressing a concrete reality. In the research context, automatic adoption of collective memory as a concrete entity rather than a metaphor has shaped a “fixed” or “static” picture of historical events. In the political context, ignoring collective memory as a metaphor prevents our seeing the manipulative uses of collective memory to create the illusion of an ostensibly consolidated and unified “collective,” adhering to a coherent repertoire of memories. The corpus includes all the speeches delivered by two Israeli prime ministers, Ariel Sharon (in office 2001–2005) and Ehud Olmert (in office 2006–2009). The methodology was inspired by Charteris-Black’s critical metaphor analysis, an approach incorporating Critical Discourse Analysis and corpus linguistics. The analysis also used the Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CCDA).

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Between Moral Activism and Archival Memory: the Testimonial Project of ‘Breaking the Silence’

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Reinstating Social Borders between the Slavic Majority and the Tatar Population of Crimea: Media Representation of the Contested Memory of the Crimean Tatars’ Deportation

Reinstating Social Borders between the Slavic Majority and the Tatar Population of Crimea: Media Representation of the Contested Memory of the Crimean Tatars’ Deportation

The therapeutic imaginary in memory work: Mediating the Finnish Civil War in Tampere

Collective memory as a metaphor: The case of speeches by Israeli prime ministers 2001–2009

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