Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Making of Collective Memory

Beamish, Thomas D.; Molotch, Harvey; Flacks, Richard

doi:10.2307/3096852

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“…RAs, however, do hope to discredit their challengers and in doing so remove the threat to the imagery. It is conceivable that these justifications may compel challengers to waste resources demonstrating the soundness of their characters (see Beamish, Molotch, and Flacks 1995).…”

Section: Public Accountsmentioning

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Public Accounts: Defending Contested Practices

Silva

2007

Symbolic Interaction

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Little attention has been paid to how actors account for controversial institutional conduct or contested practices. Relying on a content analysis of letters to the editor, I explore how actors operating in the Habermasian “public sphere” justify the contested practice of linking Native American symbols with sports teams, and suggest that in their rejection of challengers to their definitions of the situation, authors create public accounts. Consisting primarily of justifications rather than excuses, these accounts are of four types: “denial of injury,” “assertion of benefit,” “claim of authority,” and “rejection of challenge.” For those who wish to conduct comparative analyses of contested practices, these concepts may prove useful.

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Section: Public Accountsmentioning

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Public Accounts: Defending Contested Practices

Silva

2007

Symbolic Interaction

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“…The collective representations embodied in soldiers killed in the line of duty amplify the political nature of funerary rites. "Support the troops" is a sentiment so strong and near unanimous in the post-Vietnam United States that even anti-war protesters must operate around and through this moral sentiment to receive a favorable hearing in public discourse (see Beamish, Molotch, and Flacks 1995;Coy, Woehrle, and Maney 2008;Stahl 2009). …”

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Desecration, Moral Boundaries, and the Movement of Law: The Case of Westboro Baptist Church

2014

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“…One type of institutionalization is the tendency of movements and activists to get co‐opted and saddled with myths that sap their power. A myth that spread about anti‐war movements said they were intensely unpatriotic and commonly spat on returning Vietnam veterans; even contemporary anti‐war activists construct frames in reaction to this mythic history (Beamish et al ). Nelson Mandela is typically remembered as only a leader of peaceful legislative change, and not also a leader of an armed revolutionary movement; this myth lauds institutionalized politics and forgets the importance of anti‐colonial revolution (Seidman ).…”

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Social Movements and Collective Memory

Kubal

Becerra

2014

Sociology Compass

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This article summarizes key findings and provides suggestions for further research in the literature that combines social movements and collective memory. Existing reviews of the collective memory literature highlight the macro and micro levels of analysis; studying movements and memory adds a meso level of analysis. This review covers all three levels and for each level discusses research methods, the social consequences of memory activism, recurring patterns, and explanations. Suggestions for future research emphasize the concept of repertoire and its relation to memory. Tactical repertoires and cultural repertoires provide the resources needed to construct collective memories, and repertoires empower memory activists to engage the political sphere, create change, and nurture solidarity within movement organizations. Because the idea of a repertoire uncovers a process of remembering and is already a widely used term in social movement studies, it provides a resonant tool for future movement and memory research.

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Who Supports the Troops? Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Making of Collective Memory

Cited by 60 publications

References 10 publications

Public Accounts: Defending Contested Practices

Public Accounts: Defending Contested Practices

Desecration, Moral Boundaries, and the Movement of Law: The Case of Westboro Baptist Church

Social Movements and Collective Memory

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