Introduction: Identity, Memory, and Trauma

Eyerman, Ron

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“…All nations and groups tell stories that determine who ‘we’ are through recounting where ‘we’ came from. Over time, narratives tend to imitate, adapt to and modify other previous narratives, and generalised ‘templates’ emerge, that is, narrative patterns that become culturally embedded as tradition with specific settings, characters and events (Eyerman, 2019: 26; Wertsch, 2002: 60), and these templates take part in the circulation, reproduction, modification and change of social discourses (in a sociological, Foucauldian sense). Drawing on Vladimir Propp’s narratology and Bartlett’s early cognitive theory, James Wertsch (2002) distinguishes between ‘specific narratives’ and ‘schematic narrative templates’.…”

Section: Discourses Narratives and Cultural Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On agonistic narratives of migration

Hansen

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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The aim of this article is to apply the concept of agonism to the study of migration and migration narratives in order to shed new light upon a complex field and contribute to the countering of neo-nationalist right-wing populism. Following Chantal Mouffe, the author argues that agonistic narrative traits can be found in already existing cultural products that are able to unsettle the existing identity positions of the hegemonic European identity discourse pitting the national citizen against the figure of the migrant, and/or create new identity positions and alliances across the ‘us’–’them’ divide. Agonistic narratives of migration are stories able simultaneously to counter the two complementary and hegemonic discourses on migration, the antagonistic, neo-nationalist discourse representing the migrant as a threat, and the humanitarian discourse representing the migrant as a victim. Instead, agonistic narratives aim to forge alliances through protest and activities against inequality and discrimination.

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Section: Discourses Narratives and Cultural Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

On agonistic narratives of migration

Hansen

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…For an event or occurrence to gain traumatic meaning it requires time, mediation and representation, 54 a process which Alexander and colleagues refer to as the 'meaning struggle'. 55 This meaning struggle concerns how the event(s) is understood and remembered and requires the engagement of collective actors who attempt to interpret the situation.…”

Section: Trauma and Cultural Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…55 This meaning struggle concerns how the event(s) is understood and remembered and requires the engagement of collective actors who attempt to interpret the situation. 56 These actors are referred to as intellectuals or carrier groups 57 and play a key role in this process by articulating the significance of the event. For Alexander, those who constitute the carrier group may come from 'denigrated and marginalized classes' and are tasked with the job of representing the perspectives and interests of a certain generation.…”

Section: Trauma and Cultural Traumamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A historical dimension is present in the theory of cultural trauma whereby the wounds of previous episodes of crisis are drawn on to explain the effect of the current event, mediated by collective memory. 74 Taking the form of representations the memories of past actions and experiences are recounted, freight with emotion. 75 It is due to the fact that memory is a social construction that the past is a particularly interesting connective structure in forming the identity of societies and individuals.…”

Section: The Politics Of Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘We are rich in mass graves’: representing a history of violence through Êzîdî poetry

Smith

2020

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

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The 2014 Êzîdî Genocide caused a rupture in the social fabric of the Iraqi religious Êzîdî minority. A search for meaning in the aftermath of violence has caused a group of Şingalî poets to reconstruct memories of the past through their narration in Arabic prose poetry. A narrative analysis has been used on a selection of poems written and interviews conducted with five poets. I investigate their trauma process through adopting the theory of a cultural trauma, viewing 'trauma' from a social constructivist point of view, in an attempt to advance and challenge trauma theory and position the importance of representation in empowering lost voices. Through reconstructing the past in the present, the poets narrate counter-histories which give access to untold experiences which lie outside the narration of a singular event, but instead comprise of stories of the everyday in which violence is embedded. In recounting these memories, the poets serve to historicize their suffering while rebuilding the foundation of the collective and relating themselves to wider communities fostering attachments, solidarity and a critical vision for the future.

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“…Collective traumas conform to this rule, so to become such, they have to be made. This process involves coding, weighting, narration, and identity (Alexander 2012 ; Eyerman 2019 ): what kind of trauma is this? Who is responsible?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Symbolic action and constraint: the cultural logic of the 2017 UK General Election

Morgan

2021

Am J Cult Sociol

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This paper examines the influence of both the agential and structural aspects of culture on the 2017 UK General Election. The empirical section of the paper is organised around three aspects of the Labour campaign narrative: its promise to provide a national ‘alternative’, its mobilisation of Corbyn as simultaneously an individual and an icon, and its use of rallies and social media as alternative stages from which to project its meanings. It identifies the material conditioning, coding and counter-coding, narrativisation and counter-narrativisation of key events, issues, and figures, demonstrating how the substantive contestation of the campaign occurred within a consensual formal grammar that constrained symbolic action and often produced consequences unintended by cultural workers themselves. It, therefore, demonstrates how culture retained a relative autonomy in influencing meaning outcomes in part due to its formal semiotic logic. It introduces the notion of ‘code-rerouting’ to cultural sociology’s stock of conceptual tools and highlights how failure to conform to the structuring norms of civil rituals, such as presenting oneself to public scrutiny during a campaign, or failure to project coherence between surface and depth, individual and icon, past and present, or between private and public can prove fatal to performative felicity.

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Introduction: Identity, Memory, and Trauma

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

On agonistic narratives of migration

On agonistic narratives of migration

‘We are rich in mass graves’: representing a history of violence through Êzîdî poetry

Symbolic action and constraint: the cultural logic of the 2017 UK General Election

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