History of Memory

Cubitt, Geoffrey

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“…This conforms to a more general tendency observed in other national contexts for contemporary memory wars to become resources for political mobilization around issues of identity and nation (cf. Cubitt, 2019;Hunt, 2018;Roberts, 2021;). Critics of the white-washed memorialization of Linnaeus in Sweden raised questions concerning who has the privilege and authority to imagine both the past and the future of Sweden.…”

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“…On a theoretical level, we frame our study of the debate over monuments to Linnaeus in relation to the notion of a memory war. A memory war is a form of politically and ideologically polarized struggle over competing interpretations of various forms of memory, including physical monuments (Cubitt, 2019;Stone, 2012). The questioning and contestation of historical statues in the public spaces in many Western countries that came to be associated with the BLM movement in 2020 is intimately related to a growing interest in the use of history, memory, identity and representation which has permeated the world since at least the early 2000s.…”

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“…Concerning research there is an increased interest in symbolic historical representations of various kinds and the controversial meanings they embody within several disciplines and fields (Cubitt, 2019;Hunt, 2018;Parkes, 2007;Taylor, 2010). Studies of the use of history, memory, and cultural heritage are situated in a broad and multidisciplinary field of research.…”

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Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020

Karner

2022

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This is a study of the Swedish debate on statues and monuments to the world-famous Swedish natural scientist Carl Linnaeus that took place during the Black Lives Matter movement breakthrough in the summer of 2020. The purpose is to examine how understandings of race, racism, identity, and history were articulated in the debate. The empirical material consists of Twitter posts and newspaper editorials, which we approach through thematic analysis complemented with discourse analysis of illustrative examples and excerpts. Theoretically, we conceptualize the debate as a case of a Swedish racialized memory war. The results show that discourse participants constructed the terms of the debate as a matter of being “for” or “against” Linnaeus’ legacy, and consequently as a matter of being for or against science, reason, progress, and a supposedly non-ideological historiography, rather than as a matter of qualitatively renegotiating how we selectively remember and celebrate historical persons and legacies, and formulate tendentious narratives of the past that serve present agendas. In this memory war, discourse participants mainly representing the white majority population of Sweden mobilized a defense of a “canonized” understanding of Linnaeus’ legacy on the editorial pages of the Swedish newspapers and on Twitter. This defense, we argue, supports an ongoing effort to absolve Swedes of any substantial complicity in European and Western racism and colonialism. In effect, what is defended is a white-washed use and understanding of history – a status quo that largely remains unchallenged in Sweden.

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Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020

Karner

2022

J Ethn Cult Stud

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“…Ultimately, this examination adds to continued debate over the ubiquitous, yet meaningful, presence of social media spaces within sport memory practices, 12 and adds valuable insight into how sport is sustained as a key catalyst for mobilizing unifying and/or virulent forms of national thought and belonging. Generally conceptualized as forms of recall of experiences and moments in/from/of the past, 13 memory and related processes of remembering, nostalgia and forgetting are fundamental to the construction and reconstruction of sporting consciousness. 14 Memory holds significance as a means by which individuals, communities, organisations, and populations can e/affectively anchor their existence to the past.…”

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Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-19

Malanski

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Kondlatsch

2022

The International Journal of the History of Sport

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In March 2020 -following the rapid increase of cases in the countryseveral Brazilian sports leagues momentarily ceased to slow the virus spread among the population. Despite the record number of deaths caused by the disease, most of these leagues restarted by mid-July. Brazilian TV channels offered football match reruns as an alternative to fill weekly schedule gaps. Therefore, within a somewhat dystopian context of political chaos, deep economic recession and unparalleled public health crisis, the most-watched sports channel in the country, SporTV, decided to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of Brazil's third FIFA World Cup title at the 1970 men's tournament by rerunning the six matches played by the successful national football team (aka Seleção), from April 14 to the 19 and on June 21. Focusing on Twitter, this article demonstrates how the moment provided content for social media narratives about the country's assumed 'glorious' past, its fractured contemporary state and uncertain futures. In doing so, we offer insights into the complexities of memory craft within sport histories and nationmaking practices.

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History of Memory

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Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020

Scientist or Racist? The Racialized Memory War Over Monuments to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden During the Black Lives Matter Summer of 2020

Remembering Brazil @Mexico1970: Social Media & Collective Memory Making in Times of COVID-19

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