Affordances of memorability: Finnish reception of the oppression of Ingrian Finns in the Soviet Union

Savolainen, Ulla

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“…The text ended with a question: "What are the consequences of collective remembrance and forgetting?" The exhibition's aim was to overcome oblivion and silence, promoting the collective recognition of Ingrian Finns' experiences and histories in Finnish society (see Savolainen 2021). While claiming that the history of the Ingrians has not yet been recognized in Finland and Russia, the exhibition used the verb to forget as in its title Ingrians -The Forgotten Finns.…”

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Memory, Heritage, and Tradition in the Museum Exhibition <i>Ingrians – The Forgotten Finns</i>

Savolainen

Potinkara

2021

Ethnologia Europaea

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This article explores notions of memory, heritage, and tradition and their respective domains vis-à-vis a reading of the museum exhibition Ingrians – The Forgotten Finns held at the National Museum of Finland in 2020. Ingrian Finns are a Finnish-speaking historical minority of Russia and the Soviet Union. This article's contributions are threefold. First, it produces new knowledge on contemporary memory culture surrounding Ingrian Finns' history, thus opening perspectives on memory issues relating to minority groups in general. Second, it provides knowledge on contemporary phenomena related to past presencing as both localised and globalized processes. Third, it provides knowledge on the ideologies and epistemologies associated with past presencing, and it promotes a dialog between research fields that center around on concepts of memory, heritage, and tradition.

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Memory, Heritage, and Tradition in the Museum Exhibition <i>Ingrians – The Forgotten Finns</i>

Savolainen

Potinkara

2021

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“…Are “true” heroes required in order to support and complete the anti-totalitarian collective memory of communism and also to combat the “influence of former communist cliques” (Dujisin, 2021: 65)? In order to reveal the construction of “true” hero representation based on autobiographical archive and its reception (Savolainen, 2021), we focus on Elisabeta Rizea’s case, while reflecting on the discourse on memory in Romania. Having in mind the memory studies’ explicit concern with “the relationship between the past, present and future” and “the role of the past in orienting participants to particular futures” (Keightley, 2010: 62), we address the reception of the archive by questioning the way in which the public engages in online debates related to the narrative of the past.…”

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The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization

Mitroiu

Gradinaru

2022

Memory Studies

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Considering the emerging field of anti-totalitarian collective memory of communism, this article explores the interplay between the autobiographical archives and the public discourse on memory. It questions the appeal for establishing the “true” history of communism as it is reflected at the autobiographical archive level. Based on Elisabeta Rizea’s relevant case study and using a comprehensive approach addressing the discourse on memory in Romania, the grounding elements of the autobiographical archive are analyzed. Its afterlife is discussed in terms of its reception and through user-generated content specific to online communication platforms. The article argues that while the entanglements between the autobiographical archive and the discourse on memory of the Romanian communist past demonstrate a prevalence of the victimization and heroism narratives, the online engagement indicates both a continuity with these narratives and a (re)working of autobiographical archive in the register of truthfulness and authenticity.

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Postmemorial work of moral valence: A study of the resistance practices of Ingrian descendants

Kähäri

2024

Memory Studies

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In this article, I use narrative analysis to examine practices of postmemorial resistance to oppressive authorities in interviews with descendants of Ingrian Finns. The themes that were important to the interviewees concerned questions of historical and contemporary social injustice activated by family memory. My two case studies, based on biographical data collected in Finland in 2020–2021, reflect Ingrians’ descendants’ experiences of marginalization, based both on their inherited family memories of oppression and on their own experiences of having a different family story than those of the social majority. My analysis reveals how the postmemorial work of the descendants of Ingrians is socially, politically and temporally expansive. In contrast to Hirsch, I argue that postmemory, as processed in acts that I conceptualize as postmemorial expressive and rhetorical resistance practices, reflects an identity position.

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Affordances of memorability: Finnish reception of the oppression of Ingrian Finns in the Soviet Union

Cited by 4 publications

References 30 publications

Memory, Heritage, and Tradition in the Museum Exhibition <i>Ingrians – The Forgotten Finns</i>

Memory, Heritage, and Tradition in the Museum Exhibition <i>Ingrians – The Forgotten Finns</i>

The autobiographical archive in post-communist Romania: “True” heroes and collective victimization

Postmemorial work of moral valence: A study of the resistance practices of Ingrian descendants

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