Introduction

Bond, Lucy; Rapson, Jessica

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“…We should raise questions about ‘transnationalism as a uniquely progressive force’ (Wüstenberg, 2019: 377) because illiberal political actors and representatives of contemporary authoritarian democracies also engage in transnational memory work. As Bond and Rapson (2014) summarise, ‘even the most seemingly nationalistic examples of memory are implicit reactions to (or rather, against) the global culture in which contemporary commemorative practice takes place’ (p. 19). The case study of Russo-Serbian memory diplomacy contributes to the critical understanding of transnational memory as not inherently progressive.…”

Section: Memory Diplomacy As Transnational Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The alliance of victory: Russo-Serbian memory diplomacy

McGlynn

Đureinović

2022

Memory Studies

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The politics of memory of World War II underlies the public and political discourses in contemporary Russia and Serbia, with political elites using the narrative of the victory against fascism as a unifying and legitimising tool. The heroic war memory is also outward-oriented and underpins the ever-closer relations between the two countries. This article explores how Russia exports and engages with the memory of World War II in Serbia, introducing the concept of memory diplomacy as a form of public diplomacy. Based on the travelling of memory, narratives and practices, memory diplomacy takes memory politics to the international level. The article theorises memory diplomacy as co-creation, rather than a one-way process, which involves benefits for all parties involved. Through historical and content discourse analysis of data from Russia and Serbia, the article illustrates how the theory of memory diplomacy works in practice.

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Section: Memory Diplomacy As Transnational Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The alliance of victory: Russo-Serbian memory diplomacy

McGlynn

Đureinović

2022

Memory Studies

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“…Paying attention to the embodied and evocative aesthetics of Oqaluttuaq helps to recognize it as a work of postcolonial re-imagining of collective memory (see e.g. Bond and Rapson, 2014), because of the way it narrativizes loss and disappearance, as central to Greenlandic history.…”

Section: Haptic Visuality and Memory-objectsmentioning

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Reimagining cultural memory of the arctic in the graphic narratives of Oqaluttuaq

Viljoen

Zolkos

2021

Memory Studies

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The Greenlandic oral story-telling tradition, Oqaluttuaq, meaning “history,” “legend,” and “narrative,” is recognized as an important entry point into Arctic collective memory. The graphic artist Nuka K. Godtfredsen and his literary and scientific collaborators have used the term as the title of graphic narratives published from 2009 to 2018, and focused on four moments or ‘snippets’ from Greenland’s history (from the periods of Saqqaq, late Dorset, Norse settlement, and European colonization). Adopting a fragmentary and episodic approach to historical narrativization, the texts frame the modern European presence in Greenland as one of multiple migrations to and settlements in the Artic, rather than its central axis. We argue that, in consequence, the Oqaluttuaq narratives not only “provincialize” the tradition of hyperborean colonial memories, but also provide a postcolonial mnemonic construction of Greenland as a place of multiple histories, plural peoples, and heterogenous temporalities. As such, the books also narrativize loss and disappearance—of people, cultures, and environments—as a distinctive melancholic strand in Greenlandic history. Informed by approaches in the field of cultural memory and in the study memorial objects, Marks’ haptic visuality and Keenan and Weizman’s forensic aesthetics, we analyze the graphic narratives of Oqaluttuaq in regard to their aesthetic dimensions, as well as investigate the role of material objects and artifacts, which work as narrative “props” for multiple stories of encounter and survival in the Arctic.

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“…Besides the memory of the Holocaust, research has also looked at the cosmopolitan dimension of the Vietnam War and 9/11, as well as of large-scale transformations like Europeanization or globalization (Bond and Rapson, 2014;Crownshaw, 2011). The problem is that while these studies seek to move away from the territorialized state and to sever the connection between memory and the nation, some have trouble explaining how nation-transcending conceptions are constructed and adapted at the local level (Radstone, 2011).…”

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Remembering John/Ivan Demjanjuk: Inclusive and exclusive frames in cosmopolitan holocaust discourse

Pentzold

Sommer

2020

International Communication Gazette

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This article analyzes the media representations circulating around the trials of the accused Nazi collaborator John/Ivan Demjanjuk. It examines the American, Dutch, German, Russian, Jewish-Dutch, and Jewish-American discourses that framed the consecutive legal proceedings in Israel, the U.S., and Germany. Our study interrogates the convergences and divergences in the transcultural translations as well as the local appropriations of the events that formed part of the cosmopolitan remembrance of the Holocaust. We reconstructed inclusive media frames which were able to traverse different languages and cultures. We also found exclusive frames in our study that did not travel across these boundaries. The palette of views on Demjanjuk’s personal guilt and on the capacity of the trials were informed by culturally restricted or culturally resonative mnemonic tropes and were sponsored by different groups of memory agents.

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The alliance of victory: Russo-Serbian memory diplomacy

The alliance of victory: Russo-Serbian memory diplomacy

Reimagining cultural memory of the arctic in the graphic narratives of Oqaluttuaq

Remembering John/Ivan Demjanjuk: Inclusive and exclusive frames in cosmopolitan holocaust discourse

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