Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/17506980231162322a
Karen A. Foss
Ashworth GJ and Tunbridge JE (1996). Dissonant Heritage: The Management of Past as a Resource in Conflict. Chichester: Wiley. Brett D (1996) The Construction of Heritage. Cork: Cork University Press. Gellner E (1983) Nations and Nationalism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Gest J, Reny T and Mayer J (2017) Roots of the radical right: nostalgic deprivation in the United States and Britain. Comparative Political Studies 51: 1694–1719. Harrison R (2015) Beyond ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ heritage: toward an ontological politics of heritage in the age of Anthropocene. Heritage & Society 8(1): 24–42. Harvey D (2001) Heritage pasts and heritage presents: temporality, meaning and the scope of heritage studies. International Journal of Heritage Studies 7–4: 319–338. Hobsbawm EJ (1990) Nations and Nationalisms since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hobsbawm EJ and Ranger T (1983) The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Holtorf C and Fairclough G (2013) The new heritage and re-shapings of the past. In: González-Ruibal A (ed.) Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 197–210. Kaya A (2020) Populism and Heritage in Europe: Lost in Diversity and Unity. London: Routledge. Lowenthal D (1998) The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lowenthal D (2015) The Past is a Foreign Country Revisited. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. McCrone D, Morris A and Kiely R (1995) Scotland and the Brand. The Making of Scottish Heritage. Edinburgh: Polygon. Nora P (1989) Between memory and history: les lieux de memoire. Representations, Special Issue: Memory and Counter-Memory 26: 7–24. Reynié D (2016) The spectre haunting Europe: ‘Heritage populism’ and France’s National Front. Journal of Democracy 27(4): 47–57. Rodrigues-Pose A (2018) The revenge of the places that don’t matter (and what to do about it). Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 11: 189–209. Taguieff PA (1995) Political science confronts populism: from a conceptual mirage to a real problem. Telos 103: 9–43. Worsley P (1969) The concept of populism. In: Ionescu G and Gellner E (eds) Populism: Its Meanings and National Characteristics. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 212–250.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/17506980231162331
N. Brandt
Cultural commemoration in the form of embodied memory was practiced in Namibia long before German colonial occupation in the 1880s and the War of Independence against South Africa from 1966 to 1989. In recent years, Namibian artists have been offering alternative forms of embodied memory transmission related to these histories. I argue that much of this work is inextricably linked to a new wave of decolonial activism in the country. These practices highlight questions related to history and memory and are a counterpoint to state-sanctioned memorialization. Some of the recurrent themes are efforts to work through traumatic legacies connected to German colonialism and apartheid, but also to intersectional violence tied to contemporary patriarchy and identity politics. In these settings, queer and feminist methodologies provide a departure point for this embodied memory work in an attempt to go beyond colonial and tribal legacies and nationalized identity politics.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/17506980231162312
Derrick Jones
The absence, erasure, and exile of blackness from the archive breed a silence that has produced grounds for interrogation across numerous disciplines. The official record indexes the authority of the archive to shape what is available for view. Sites of remembrance such as memorials and historical markers are included in the vast material we engage for the sake of history, memory, and meaning. Such a site is the Five Points area of Atlanta, GA, where in 1906, a massacre of black Atlanteans bloodied the landscape and eluded significant remembrance. This article thinks alongside Saidiya Hartman’s project of recovery and Christina Sharpe’s practice of “wake work” to consider how writing with and against the archive through a blackened consciousness articulate alternative methods of engaging memory and care.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/17506980231162332
Margaret Comer
An infamous Soviet edifice, the Lubyanka’s yellow bulk still stands in central Moscow. The building is controlled by the federal security service (FSB), the contemporary security services, and the FSB provides no tangible acknowledgment of the building’s past. Yet, it is not erased; instead, the surrounding landscape has become a meaningful space for memorializing the victims of Soviet repression. Although the government’s official policy is to ignore or muffle the Lubyanka’s dark heritage, other actors have stepped in to interpret this painful legacy in various ways. This article examines different processes of heritagization and memory work within this “heritagescape.” It sheds light on the Lubyanka area’s polysemic meanings and sociopolitical roles in contemporary Russia, as well as the contested processes of heritagization and memorialization at sites of violence. It also introduces the idea of “accountability” as a concept that can be communicated at a heritage site, especially at times of increased state violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/17506980231162322b
Konrad Siekierski
Barry JM (2005) The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History. New York: Penguin Books. Foss KA (2020) Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. Hauser C (2020) The mask slackers of 1918. The New York Times, 3 August. Available at: https://www. nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html Little B (2020) How the flu pandemic changed Halloween in 1918. History.com, 19 October. Available at: https://www.history.com/news/halloween-1918-flu-pandemic Strochlic N and Riley D (2020) How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic. National Geographic, 27 March. Available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-citiesflattened-curve-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-coronavirus
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/17506980231162326
Ruth Stanford
Design elements, the physical or architectural choices that determine the character of space, can have a dramatic effect on visitor experience at museums and memorial sites. At those employing strategies of embodiment, viewer experience takes on added significance. Many contemporary memorial sites employ physical touchstones that evoke emotional experiences, giving viewers a deeper empathy for injustice or humanitarian tragedy. This visual essay examines design elements—such as architectural details and the placement of objects—that evoke embodiment at three sites: the Bisesero genocide memorial in Rwanda and the Apartheid Museum and Prestwich Memorial museum in South Africa. Each of these sites manifests design elements that encourage visitors to engage physically and emotionally with the victims of historical atrocities. Moving visitors beyond a detached, intellectual understanding of traumatic histories toward a physical/emotional engagement may engender a deeper connection with humanitarian tragedy and the struggle for healing and reconciliation.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/17506980231162329
Melissa Karp
Archives of the 5·18 Gwangju People’s Uprising—a 1980 pro-democracy protest in South Korea—entered UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2011. UNESCO’s inclusion provided international recognition for the Uprising after censorship under the Chun Doo-hwan regime; however, the narrative clarity presented through photographs, documents, and testimony in the museum now defines and limits memorialization. By contrast, Ch’oe Yun’s 1988 novella There a Petal Silently Falls imagines what lies beyond archives. With its silent protagonist and fragmented, sometimes illegible prose, Petal interrogates the coherence of memory when stripped of testimony. Reading Petal and the Archives as distinct memory sites, this article questions how memory projects privilege evidentiary archives, which might perpetuate the very patterns of violence such projects seek to uncover. As human rights ideologies become increasingly predominant, Ch’oe’s novella reasserts not only that the agony of memory can exceed the intelligibility of the archive, but that it must.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1177/17506980231162319
Marita Sturken
This essay analyzes two American memorials that were built in the post-9/11 era: the National September 11 Memorial in New York City, which opened in 2011, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2018. Both of these memorials pay tribute to victims of terrorism, the first to victims of foreign terrorism and the second to victims of lynchings, a form of racial terrorism within the United States. This essay argues that these two memorials define the beginning and end of the post-9/11 era, from memorialization as a nationalist enterprise to memorialization as a reckoning on race that demands the destruction of racist monuments and the construction of memorials to victims of racist violence. It looks in particular at how the modern designs of these two memorials produce very different kinds of experiences of memory to tell distinct narratives of victimhood, loss, and nation.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176036
Vanessa Brutsche
This article evaluates the place of The Plague in the emergent cultural memory of the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when the novel was said to have “gone viral” in popular culture. I ask what it means to reread The Plague in the current moment, a time characterized not just by a pandemic but by widespread unrest and social movements on both ends of the political spectrum. While rereadings of Camus in light of COVID-19 seem predicated on a turn away from the novel’s allegorical dimension, The Plague has taken on new metaphorical meanings in its Covid-era reception. Examining the proliferation of “readings” of the pandemic, in which the virus has been understood as a figure for collective social ills, this article highlights the place of Camus’s novel in the cultural memory of the crisis and proposes that it can illuminate some of the complex entanglements of our present.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176037
M. Mihai, Mathias Thaler
Addressing the political implications of the ever-accumulating destruction of ecosystems and more-than-human life, this paper asks whether and in what ways environmental losses should be publicly commemorated. Our answer is two-pronged. First, we hold that a politics of environmental commemoration would enfranchise those who are already grieving, by lending legitimacy to their experiences. Moreover, commemorative practices might prompt much-needed norm change by nurturing a recognition of our species’ entanglement with the more-than-human world. Second, we programmatically introduce five principles that should guide environmental commemoration, ethically and pragmatically: multispecies justice, responsibility, pluralism, dynamism, and anticlosure. A critical examination of two real-world examples – the memorialization of the passenger pigeon’s extinction and the annual ritual of the Remembrance Day for Lost Species – substantiates our theoretical argument. Finally, the paper engages with several potential criticisms.
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