Palestinian Children: Authors of Collective Memory

Habashi, Janette

doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00417.x

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“…Connecting work on memory and geopolitics need not be restricted to post‐conflict settings like the Falkland Islands, as children and young people have sensorial, embodied and intergenerational encounters with memory in many diverse contexts as previous research has observed (e.g. Berliner ; Habashi ; Kuusisto‐Arponen ; Tolia‐Kelly ). These ideas help to shift the focus beyond the spaces, representations and practices that have typically received attention in studies exploring the formation of young people's national and (geo)political identities, such as the school classroom, textbooks and official commemorative performances.…”

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“…The Memorial Wood works to perpetuate a specific mode of remembrance intended to ‘embody continuity’, a continuity that was to be sustained in symbolically important ways by the next generation of Islanders (Assmann , 282). They were seen here as the cultivator and ‘keeper of collective memories that previous generations experienced’ in ways that, it was suggested, offered catharsis for veterans and families of the fallen (Habashi , 421). The embodied performances of young people ‘planting’ and ‘looking after’ the wood were laden with symbolism that rooted and reproduced memory in place.…”

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“…These encounters with landscapes and material objects ‘charged with memories’ (Tolia‐Kelly , 314) sometimes triggered intergenerational discussions, emphasising the significance of family narratives in the construction of national memory discourses (cf. Habashi ). Memory of the war is not transmitted through formal curricula or citizenship education in linear ways here, rather it is ‘an inscription of time in place, which is touched, accessed or mediated through sensory stimuli’ (Tolia‐Kelly , 316):

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Section: Everyday Encounters With Geopolitical Memoriesmentioning

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Encountering geopolitical pasts in the present: young people's everyday engagements with memory in the Falkland Islands

Benwell

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Young people's geopolitical subjectivities are heavily informed by past events in ways that have not been sufficiently acknowledged in the existing literature on youth geopolitics. This paper demonstrates how work on memory can be brought into dialogue with critical geopolitics to identify the assemblage of socio-spatial practices that shape how young people learn about geopolitics. It interrogates what memories and their attendant landscape manifestations and rituals 'do' to young people growing up in the Falkland Islands, a society that continues to live with the legacies of a sovereignty dispute that triggered the Falklands War just over 30 years ago. Young Islanders' embodied and relational encounters with memory through the surrounding environment and adults are shown to play an important role in shaping their perceptions of contemporary geopolitical relations with Argentina. These can both reproduce and/or rework collective memory narratives, emphasising the importance of looking beyond mnemonic discourses manifest in institutional and official spaces. The paper makes a conceptual contribution to debates about young people's agency in relation to geopolitics. While children and young people are considered active agents capable of forming their own views, they are also presented with potent memories of past geopolitical eras that propagate certain understandings of international relations. Engaging scholarship on memory can help address the tensions inherent to recognising children and young people as social and (geo)political actors, within the context of structures, institutions and relationships that have a strong bearing on how their agency is expressed. In a methodological sense the paper illustrates how research might productively incorporate the adults who are influential in the formation of young people's geopolitical subjectivities.

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Encountering geopolitical pasts in the present: young people's everyday engagements with memory in the Falkland Islands

Benwell

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Instead, it shows how young Falkland Islanders can respond, contest and shape debates concerning the geopolitical relations that characterise their lives (and those of their forebears), through online engagements with social media, for instance. Youth, then, can be considered as agents of (in)security with the capacity to formulate ideas about security, influenced by memories of past geopolitical events, but also contextualised within the dynamics of contemporary international relations (Benwell, 2016b;Berliner, 2005;Becker, 2014;Habashi, 2013).…”

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Connecting ontological (in)securities and generation through the everyday and emotional geopolitics of Falkland Islanders

Benwell

2017

Social & Cultural Geography

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Debates about the security of British Overseas Territories (OTs) like the Falkland Islands are typically framed through the discourses of formal and practical geopolitics in ways that overlook the perspectives of their citizens. This paper focuses on the voices of two generations of citizens from the Falkland Islands, born before and after the 1982 war, to show how they perceive geopolitics and (in)security in different ways. It uses these empirical insights to show how theorisations of ontological (in)security might become more sensitive to the lived experiences of diverse generational groups within states and OTs like the Falklands. The paper reflects on the complex experiences of citizens living in a postcolonialOT that still relies heavily on the UK government and electorate for assurances of security, in the face of diplomatic pressure from Argentina. While Islander youth reflected on how their views about geopolitics and security might be considered marginal, relative to those who directly experienced geopolitical events in the Falklands during the second half of the twentieth century, the paper illustrates the multiple ways they can act as agents of (in)security.

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“…Collective memory is heavily bound up with national and group identity. Habashi (2013) offers one strong example in the oral story-telling practices of Palestinian children. She shows how such practices serve to underline feelings of community, unity and continuity.…”

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From absent to present pasts: civil society, democracy and the shifting place of memory in Brazil

Ryan

2016

Journal of Civil Society

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Palestinian Children: Authors of Collective Memory

Cited by 36 publications

References 31 publications

Encountering geopolitical pasts in the present: young people's everyday engagements with memory in the Falkland Islands

Encountering geopolitical pasts in the present: young people's everyday engagements with memory in the Falkland Islands

Connecting ontological (in)securities and generation through the everyday and emotional geopolitics of Falkland Islanders

From absent to present pasts: civil society, democracy and the shifting place of memory in Brazil

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