“Our National Feeling is a Broken One:” Civic Emotion and the Holocaust in German Citizenship Education

Facing Fear and Responding with Courage: Understanding How Fear Constitutes the “Emotional Citizenship” of Voluntary Returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina

“…Suočiti se sa strahom i odgovoriti hrabrošću: razumijevanje uloge emocije straha u konstitutiranju »emotivne dimenzije« državljanstva pripadnika iseljeništva koji su se dobrovoljno vratili u Bosnu i Hercegovinu Aida Ibričević SAŽETAK Ovaj rad razmatra slučaj dobrovoljne povratne migracije u postkonfliktno društvo, kao što je to Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH), kada se povratnik, iako ima pravnu, ekonomsku i društvenu mogućnost da ostane živjeti i raditi u inozemstvu, svojevoljno odluči vratiti. Početna je tvrdnja rada da je osnovna motivacija za ovakvu vrstu migracije emotivne prirode i da, iako duboko istražena emocija »patriotske ljubavi« (Brown, 2014) čini značajan dio povratničke emotivne strukture, i druge emocije igraju jednaku, a u nekim slučajevima i važniju ulogu. Autoričin je argument da je strah jedna od ključnih emocija koje konstituiraju povratničko svakodnevno iskustvo državljanstva te navodi tri dimenzije straha: etničku diskriminaciju, ekonomsku neizvjesnost i zloupotrebu političke moći.…”

“…The few notable exceptions are investigations of the most common emotion connected to citizenship, "patriotic love", and its opposite -hatred for the enemy of the country, nation or the state (Brown, 2014;Ahmed, 2014;Franz, 2015;Patti and van Zoonen, 2006). Apart from "patriotic love", scholars have also examined the nexus between citizenship and the feelings of fear (Fortier, 2010;Ho, 2009;Isin, 2004;Johnson, 2010), security/safety (Jackson, 2016;Skulte-Ouaiss, 2013;Yuval-Davis, 2006), and shame (Brown, 2014;Aguilar, 1996). This paper contributes to the scholarly debate on how fear constitutes citizenship, as illustrated by return migration to a post-conflict society -Bosnia and Herzegovina.…”

“…This is particularly true in the case of voluntary return, where the returnee freely chooses to go back despite a viable alternative of livelihood and a well-integrated social presence abroad. Although the much researched (Brown, 2014) "patriotic love" is certainly part of the returnees' emotional landscape, other emotions play an equal, and in some cases a more important role. They are highly complex, ranging from fear, guilt, shame, denial, rage, anger, frustration, disgust, pity and powerlessness to defiance, joy, happiness, pride, nostalgia, and hope.…”

Beyond Memory

“…It is most likely the same for the teaching of violent pasts, in terms of their role in civic education. The few studies that have been dedicated to this (de Cock and Heimberg, 2014;Brown, 2014), suggest that certain negative reactions around the teaching of the Holocaust have been documented in France, particularly among young people from Muslim backgrounds living in disadvantaged areas, who see this reminder of the past through the prism of contemporary issues, in particular the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Brenner, 2015). Several studies suggest however that, overall, incidents relating to this teaching remain limited, both in France and elsewhere, in Sweden, Belgium, or Switzerland for example (Bonafoux, de Cock-Pierrepont and Falaize, 2007;Grandjean, 2016;Eckmann and Heimberg, 2011 36 ).…”

Musealizar el pasado y el presente de la violencia. Un estudio de las percepciones de los visitantes del Museo Casa de la Memoria de Medellín

“…El mcm tiene una misión de formación de ciudadanos y de transmisión de valores, pues su misión es "la transformación de las lógicas de la guerra hacia prácticas más civilizadas" (Museo Casa de la Memoria, [en línea]). Existe un deber moral que influencia lo que se puede decir al salir de un lugar que habla de violencia y del dolor de las víctimas (Brown, 2014): la "configuración emocional" del relato encuadra lo que se puede sentir y decir al salir de la sala de exposición permanente. Las respuestas que dieron los visitantes a nuestras preguntas deben entenderse dentro de este marco.…”