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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Historical Amnesia"”.
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Mémoire et silence autour de la guerre d’Algérie
The Algerian War has been surrounded with historical amnesia, which the figure of Charles de Gaulle perpetuated by the creation of a national myth that included the concepts of a civilizing mission' and the need to revive its 'glorious past. The question of torture during that period proved …
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Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect
… algorithmic content, affective manipulation, and historical amnesia operate as forms of psychological warfare. To investigate this, I introduce the concept of provisional ethnographic installations: absurdist and poetic visual frameworks that purposefully conflate cultural phenomena to reveal …
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Lowveld cotton : a political ecology of agricultural failure in Natal and Zululand, 1844-1948
… in the agricultural economy. Its story is one of historical amnesia: although faith in the region’s cotton prospects dipped following each spectacular failure, it was routinely resurrected once previous failures had been accounted for, or memories of them had faded. Two crucial issues are at the …
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“Where foot knocks against/the unburied bones of kin”: Topographies of memory and amnesia in Poland and Spain
… and the resulting government-sanctioned cultural amnesia. Two such illustrations of institutionalized practices of forgetting are Spain’s pacto de silencio (pact of silence), imposed after the death of Franco, and Poland’s recent law making it a criminal offense to discuss or imply Polish guilt in …
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The Afterlives of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-c. 1700
… of suppression came to be remembered as the historical event that we know as ‘the Dissolution of the Monasteries’. The third chapter turns away from the temporal dimensions of the memory of the dissolution to explore its material, visual, and spatial aspects. It argues that historians have …