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Bachleitner, Kathrin

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“…Focussing on the role of memories in the construction, reproduction, and contestation of political identities, IR research has shown how the past is used as a political and strategic tool to serve the present (Khong, 1992; Neustadt and May, 1986). Research has focussed on analysing how the memory of traumatic pasts guides states’ foreign policy behaviour (Bell, 2006; Budryte and Resende, 2013; Innes and Steele, 2014; Langenbacher and Shain, 2010; Zehfuss, 2007) and how (traumatic) collective memory has become one of the elements of identity that drive state policy (Bachleitner, 2021; Becker, 2013; Little and Rogers, 2017). Bachleitner (2019: 495) suggested the diplomacy of memory model as a specific foreign policy undertaking that consists of a ‘deliberate and coordinated diplomatic team effort to portray an official memory to the international stage’.…”

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Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate

Adams

Mitrani

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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The concept of collective memory receives increasing attention in international relations. This burgeoning scholarship, however, mainly centres on its role as a strategic tool in foreign policy, binding it to national context. This research uses collective memory as an analytical framework to gauge identification processes at the international level. Specifically, we examine how states self-present themselves with various collective We’s and against multiple others. Contingent upon exclusive biographical narratives, we show how states transform and present collective memories in ways that resonate with their particular identity combination. Using inductive comparative analysis of speeches delivered by heads of state of Germany, the United States, and Israel during United Nations General Assembly sessions (1991–2017), analysis demonstrates how states evoke the past to narrate who they are, as states. Expanding understanding regarding how historical events are utilised in foreign policy, findings illustrate the dynamic juggling process states perform with various elements of self.

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Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate

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Mitrani

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Sachiyo Tsukamoto’s The Politics of Trauma and Integrity contributes to a broad understanding of the state and its gendered subject dynamics by critically engaging with the interplay of narrative, memory and identity. Memory studies, at large, confront the multi-faceted exclusions and erasures against the power narratives (Bachleitner, 2021; Ranjan, 2023). Similarly, Tsukamoto adds new dimensions of history in this book by uncovering the marginalised truths (p. 2).…”

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Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”

Panday

2023

Memory Studies

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“…Likewise, Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik (2014) developed an influential typology of mnemonic regimes in East Central Europe by drawing on statements made by politicians and government officials. Others have analyzed how recall of the past has changed over time at the level of the state (Dixon 2018; Lebow, Kansteiner, and Fogu 2006; Mark 2011) and surveyed the ontological basis it provides for foreign policy (e.g., Bachleitner 2021), particularly among the former Warsaw Pact countries (Domańska 2022; Mälksoo 2009) and in East Asia (Wang 2012).…”

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Defending History? The Impact of Context and Speaker in Russia

Krawatzek¹,

Soroka²

2023

Perspect. polit.

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Political attempts to control how the past may be represented have flourished in the twenty-first century. Russia participates in this trend, having taken steps to legislatively and juridically safeguard the legacy of the USSR’s involvement in World War II. This has institutionalized an interpretation of the fight against Nazism that was already widely held in society, making the Russian case a “hard test” for evaluating when the violation of a historical norm is deemed appropriate and what the impact of a memory law might be relative to other factors. Drawing on two vignette experiments conducted in 2021, our article demonstrates both that the discursive context in which a controversial statement about the past is made matters when respondents assess whether the person making it should be punished and that criticism of a historical norm is more likely to be accepted when it emanates from an in-group member. We also find that the state has limited ability to influence societal attitudes regarding history. Moreover, a willingness to defend state-led interventions into how the past is depicted aligns with support for the political system but the latter does not necessarily overlap with individuals’ historical views, underscoring the multidimensional nature of collective memory.

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Abstract: ‘Memory—what a strange thing it is!…We can only think of it, in the line of an abstract time that is deprived of all thickness…Memories are motionless, and the more securely they are fixed in space, the sounder they are’, writes the philosopher Gaston Bachelard in ...

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate

Juggling identities: Identification, collective memory, and practices of self-presentation in the United Nations General Debate

Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”

Defending History? The Impact of Context and Speaker in Russia

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