Writing the Individual Back into Collective Memory

Crane, Susan

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“…Several authors suggested that collective memories are actualized in reception (Irwin-Zarecka 1994;Crane 1997;Kansteiner 2002;Wertsch 2002;Linde 2009). Indeed, Kansteiner (2002) notes that many memory projects fail, and he partly attributes such failures to memory recipients who may ignore or transform meanings that political elites intended.…”

Section: Individual Beliefs On the Past And Reception Of Collective Mmentioning

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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: Individual Beliefs On the Past And Reception Of Collective Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Juroš¹

2016

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“…Connerton claims that 'the practice of historical reconstruction can in important ways receive a guiding impetus from, and can in turn give significant shape to, the memories of social groups (Connerton 1989: 14). Hutton argues in a more radical way that historiography cannot be seen as a process freed from memory, but rather as an official version of memory which enjoys the sanction of academic authority (Hutton 1993;see also Assmann 1999;Crane 1997;Hall 1998). This does not mean that memory and history are synonymous, but rather that 'memory is history located in relatively subjective space; history is memory located in relatively objectified space.…”

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Introduction: Researching Memory and Generation

Palmberger

2016

How Generations Remember

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“…Focusing on the identity and status of those who carry out memorial practices may be a useful way of writing individuals or at least contradictory groups of people back into the study of memory (cf. Alcock 2002: 132-175;Crane 1997). Addressing the identity and context of past individuals also relates to the wider question of agency: is it the attitudes of the conqueror or the conquered that make a difference to what is remembered or forgotten?…”

Section: Memory In Archaeological Theory and Practicementioning

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Remembering and Forgetting in the Roman Provinces

Eckardt

2004

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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Writing the Individual Back into Collective Memory

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

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

Introduction: Researching Memory and Generation

Remembering and Forgetting in the Roman Provinces

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