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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Memory politics"”.
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A Land Fit for Heroes?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914
… examines the cultural components of the memory of the Great War in Ireland and argues that, taken together, they constitute an alternative Irish national identity that threatened and challenged republican nationalism. These cultural components existed in the realm of vernacular memory, …
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Der Verlorene: Trans-Generational Trauma, Guilt And Shame
… Against the backdrop of this shift in German memory politics, this thesis examines literary negotiations of the current 'victim debate', using Hans-Ulrich Treichel's prose text Der Verlorene (1998) as a primary example. Der Verlorene dramatizes a childhood dominated by an irrevocable loss. The …
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‘Imagining' the Rohingya: Navigating Identity, Memory, and Visibility Examining different methods of documenting Rohingya identities, experiences, and lives.
… initiatives aimed at mobilising memory work, that are intended to act as a tool for the Rohingya as a means to navigate their identity and memory politics, agency and advocacy. The need for recognition, dignity, and forms of healing through trauma has been instrumental in …
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Eroding the palimpsest : landscape, cinema and the site of history
… concerned with a forest in Slovenia as a site of memory politics originating in the Second World War, and the echoes of that event today. The paper will dig deeper into the themes, questions, and specific historical context elaborated by the film; while in its structure it will stitch a poetic …
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Memory As First Breath: Critiquing and Disrupting the Lingering Politics of Memory of the Francoist Regime Through an Artistic Practice Involving a Personal Archive of Photographs
This thesis examines and critiques the memory politics of the Francoist regime and the post-Franco era, looking specifically at the flooding and displacement of Faió, a village in a region called la Franja in South Aragon at the border with Catalonia. Academic literature emphasises the Pact of …
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The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Polish politics of history
… of which is a dispute over the proper ambit of politics itself. Chapter 1 charts the development of official policy vis-à-vis the Warsaw Uprising during the communist period and its lasting impact on the national discourse surrounding the battle. Chapter 2 reconstructs the origins of the …
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Politics and the Past in the Age of Nerva and Trajan: The Making and Unmaking of Memories of Domitian, 96-117 CE.
… a first step of a complex process in which his memory was reshaped, through the production of new commemorative media, whose purpose was to legitimise Nerva and Trajan; and that this process also negatively affected Domitian’s legal and administrative precedents. This suggests that Domitian’s …
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Practices of Assembling in (Post-)Dictatorial Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (1973-2019)
… explores how resistance to these regimes and the memory politics forged in their wake hinge on simultaneously creative and political acts of assembling. The focus is on artistic projects that facilitated identification, dissent, exchange, and debate during these contexts of political repression, …
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“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… and mobile technologies, contentious politics largely continue to take shape through the performances, narratives, and materialities of the street. That is, contentious politics take on particular place characteristics and thus must be studied in diverse places. This dissertation …
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
Holocaust memory is at a critical juncture. The intersection of anxieties about survivors and firsthand witnesses growing fewer and frailer, the ever-growing importance and ongoing boom in popular media representations of the Holocaust across the last four decades, and the contemporary threat of …
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The Politics of the Past in Britain, c. 1939-1990
This dissertation asks how popular memories of the inter-war years evolved in Britain, from the Second World War to the Thatcher government.
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MAKING AUSTRIAN: CULTURAL MEMORY, NATIONALISM, AND PERFORMING IDENTITY POLITICS IN LATE IMPERIAL VIENNA
… the interplay between performances of cultural memory, indeed often a fabrication of shared memory, and the theatrical contributions to nationalist aims, has been largely overlooked. This thesis aims to examine the evolution of two interrelated performances: First, the development of …
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Inspiring the Nation: French Music about Jeanne d'Arc in the 1930s and 1940s
… as the locus of these intertwined narratives of memory, sacrifice, and renewal, and the music dedicated to her frequently referenced musical practices of the past in an effort to solidify what it meant to be French in the present. This dissertation's orientation around a ubiquitous cultural …
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Temple Histories and Communities of Practice in Early Maya Society: Archaeological Investigations at Caobal, Petén, Guatemala
… were comprised of daily practices, identity politics, and religious values in prehispanic Maya society. The durability and permanence of these features, as well as deviations and modifications to earlier forms, demonstrate how such religious principles and practices intersected with the …
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Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter
… capacities of both cinema as an art and politics as the thought of collective self-determination. Is it, in other words, possible to elaborate a relationship between cinema and politics that would at the same time establish a separation between the two and thus refuse to reduce one to the …