Triumph and Trauma

Giesen, Bernhard

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“…By the time of his arrest in May, Asahara had become a demonic figure. This process cemented the public image of Asahara as a Bquintessentially evil^ (Ducharme, andFine, 1995, p. 1311) criminal mastermind who resided outside of the moral boundaries of the collectivity (Alexander 2012;Giesen 2004), and justified the Manichean frame of struggle between good and evil. The media drew comparisons between Asahara and dictators such as Hitler and Mao, whom Asahara apparently admired (Sasa 1995;Yomiuri Shimbun 1995i).…”

Section: Aum Shinrikyō and The Aum Affair As Cultural Traumamentioning

confidence: 97%

Cultural trauma, counter-narratives, and dialogical intellectuals: the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya in the context of the Aum affair

Ushiyama

Baert

2016

Theor Soc

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In this article, we offer a new conceptualization of intellectuals as carriers of cultural trauma through a case study of the Aum Affair, a series of crimes and terrorist attacks committed by the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō. In understanding the performative roles intellectuals play in trauma construction, we offer a new dichotomy between Bauthoritative intellectuals,^who draw on their privileged parcours and status to impose a distinct trauma narrative, and Bdialogical intellectuals,ŵ ho engage with local actors dialogically to produce polyphonic and open-ended trauma narratives. We identify three dimensions of dialogical intellectual action: firstly, the intellectuals may be involved in dialogue with local participants; secondly, the intellectual products themselves may be dialogical in content; and thirdly, there might be a concerted effort on the part of the intellectuals to record and to disseminate dialogue between local participants. In the context of the Aum Affair, we analyze the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya as dialogical intellectuals while they sought, with the help of local actors' experiences, to challenge and to alter the orthodox trauma narrative of Aum Shinrikyō as exclusively a social evil external to Japanese society and an enemy to be excluded from it. Towards the end of the article, we discuss the broader significance of this case study and suggest that in light of recent societal and technological developments, the role and scope of dialogical intellectuals as carriers of trauma are changing and possibly expanding.In accordance with cultural convention, all Japanese names appear in standard Japanese order of last name followed by given name, with the exception of the lead author.

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Section: Aum Shinrikyō and The Aum Affair As Cultural Traumamentioning

confidence: 97%

Cultural trauma, counter-narratives, and dialogical intellectuals: the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya in the context of the Aum affair

Ushiyama

Baert

2016

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“…Given that the structures of inequality and injustice that precipitated migrants' emigration frequently remained unchanged, tangible acts of solidarity mitigate guilt, reaffirm connections and propel migrants to engage in local forums. Through the act of remembering, they are able to reconstitute the dead in the present and connect with the community of the living (Giesen 2004). As Zolkos (2012: 1) posits, past trauma 'presents the reconciliatory and/or retributive project as a construction of a particular subject of transitional politics, constituted in terms of bearing witness [original emphasis] to a traumatizing historical event'.…”

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confidence: 98%

Incorporating Injustice: Immigrant Vulnerability and Latin Americans in Multicultural Australia

Mason¹

2014

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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“…1 Another development in the republican 'parade-scape' has been the withdrawal of mainstream republican organisations from a number of the conventional commemorative spaces and in some cases the abandonment of 'martyriological narratives' (Giesen 2004) in order to embrace a more confident mode of celebrating community. This is evident in the transformation of 'internment week' into the West Belfast Festival in the 1980s and more recently in the suggestion that the annual internment rally could be replaced by a day of political activity and education (Morrison 2007).…”

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Parading Memory and Re-member-ing Conflict: Collective Memory in Transition in Northern Ireland

McQuaid

2015

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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In Northern Ireland, parades have long been important carriers of politico-cultural identities and collective memories, as well as arenas of struggle and conflict. Taking as its starting point that these contests over meaning are always framed by their contexts of articulation both in temporal and spatial terms, this article examines the role of parades in the current 'post-conflict' phase of the peace process as it plays out in a particular location, namely North Belfast. Using theories of cultural and collective memory and examples from republican and loyalist parades in North Belfast, it is argued that there is fear of memory and identity collapse in particular communities on the margins of the peace process, leading to a conscious doubling of efforts to (re)articulate the hidden recesses of memory in the current transition. In this, the patterns of 'competitive commemoration' in parades should be understood both horizontally: as majority memory traditions move to minority memory positions, and vertically: in relation to the increasing dissonance between vernacular practices of conflict and the official post-conflict discourses in Northern Ireland. Central to these arguments is the recognition that parading traditions are at once presentist, competitive instruments and also emotional and embodied practices to ensure the continuity of identity. It follows that both dimensions must be recognised together, if cognitive and visceral templates of conflict are to be explained and shifted. This article applies a wide-angle memory studies lens to capture the two together and explore the changing parade-scape.

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Triumph and Trauma

Cited by 71 publications

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Cultural trauma, counter-narratives, and dialogical intellectuals: the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya in the context of the Aum affair

Cultural trauma, counter-narratives, and dialogical intellectuals: the works of Murakami Haruki and Mori Tatsuya in the context of the Aum affair

Incorporating Injustice: Immigrant Vulnerability and Latin Americans in Multicultural Australia

Parading Memory and Re-member-ing Conflict: Collective Memory in Transition in Northern Ireland

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