On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse

Klein, Kerwin Lee

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“…Nevertheless, both the scope of interest in collective memories as a social phenomenon and the deliberate and the self-conscious development of the academic field were unprecedented before the 1980s. Therefore, this period deserves its label as the period of the "memory boom" in social sciences (Klein 2000;Schwartz and Schuman 2005).…”

Section: Studying Collective Memories: Development Of the Field And Cmentioning

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“…Following the memory boom in the 1980s (Klein 2000;Schwartz and Schuman 2005), the dominant approaches in the field of collective memories have focused on semiotic analysis of material or embodied memory that exists independently of individuals (Assmann 1995;Nora 1996b;Klein 2000) or they have examined public discourse on the past and how it was influenced by political elites and the media (Schwartz 1996b;Confino 1997). In recent years, this structural approach to collective memories has been balanced by scholars advocating an individual approach, which incorporates individual beliefs about the past and studies reception of collective memories (Confino 1997;Kansteiner 2002;Wertsch 2002;Schwartz and Schuman 2005).…”

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Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories (Dissertation, 2012)

Juroš¹

2016

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The present study found that the textbook and newspaper presentations, primarily shaped by the 1990s nation-building elites, mainly portrayed Yugoslavia in negative political, economic and ethnic terms. However, findings from 72 in-depth interviews with the two young Croatian generations suggested that the influence of the dominant negative re-evaluations was limited, particularly among the vocationally educated individuals who were least exposed to the institutionalized presentations of the Yugoslav past. In contrast, the young Croats, independently of their differences, generally dominantly evaluated Yugoslavia in positive social terms, which was a perspective obtained from their parents and older people recounting their good lives in Yugoslavia. This perspective was appropriated not only because its sources were emotionally available and credible, but also because the social lens on Yugoslavia helped the young Croats make sense of their lives in the social insecurities of the contemporary Croatian society.ix Therefore, the present study showed how different beliefs on the Yugoslav past, available from different sources, were appropriated and used by the young Croats. I also proposedInteractional Model of Collective Memories Formation, which elaborated how the influences on the beliefs of the past were formed at the macro, micro and the level of social interaction. Finally, this study also illuminated how active actors reinterpreted the presentations of the past, thus demonstrating how individuals can use culture in diverse and adept ways. They wore their hair long, discovered LSD and pot They sang about peace, with Tito they were non-aligned On national basis, they were not divided It was easy to talk philosophy in a student mess, To be a penniless artist and a musician in-between In a place where things were working out all-right, where the state functioned It was easy to be a student in the 1970s My folks -they easily found their first job Nobody hit the unemployment office with a degree in their hands The living was good in that party system Nobody talked about Goli otok, you just changed the subject The students with their hair long got a degree and got a job, got their paycheck regularly You even could get an apartment from the United Work It was easy then to have big plans To make your own nest, to be relaxed, no tensions there To have your spot in the company reserved, in the selfmanagement committee as well You stayed until you retired -all your life at the same desk Everything didn't seem as a bluff, a cheap trick in those days Nobody went hungry They were happy in their little apartment Secure job and a retirement fund It was an easy decision to have us Nothing is the same anymore, there is no secure path There is no direct flight to the stars, to the better tomorrow Black-and- (born 1989-91), was born after the break-up, but it spent its formative years in democratizing post-Yugoslav period.Both these generations were hardly able to form mature meaningful evaluations of the past. 4Rather, for th...

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Section: Studying Collective Memories: Development Of the Field And Cmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories (Dissertation, 2012)

Juroš¹

2016

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“…For Klein, it is the renewed localization of memory in material objects that has justified a questionable leap from individual memory to collective memory. This dual move toward a sacralization of memory objects and a reified version of "Memory with a capital M" (Klein, 2000: 135) has dire consequences for the study of memory; according to Klein (2000), [t]he prosaic emancipation is tremendous, for an author can move freely from memories as individual psychic events to memories as a shared group consciousness to memories as a collection of material artifacts and employ the same psychoanalytic vocabularies throughout. (p. 136) Klein's warning against reification in the field of memory studies can be taken seriously without giving up the notion that humans imbue the material world with meaning in almost any act of communication (Nienass and Poole, 2012: 91-92), but here, we want to address another specific limitation to the memory-materiality relationship assumed by some of the critiques above.…”

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Memory | Materiality | Sensuality

2015

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“…While one of the important criticisms about the emergence of memory discourse in the late twentieth century is that it attempts to circumvent the contemporary problematisation of historiography and re-enchant our relationship to the past (see Klein, 2000), much work in the field of memory discourse also retains a sense of fragmentation and partiality, the impression that the remembered past could look entirely different, and accrue different meanings, from another perspective. It retains the conventional sense of memory as subjective, fragmentary, slanted and personal.…”

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History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

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2010

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On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse

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Social Changes and the Generational Differences in the Formation of Collective Memories (Dissertation, 2012)

Memory | Materiality | Sensuality

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

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