Algeria as a <i>lieu de mémoire</i>: Ethnic Minority Memory and National Identity in Contemporary France

Derderian, Richard L.

doi:10.1215/01636545-2002-83-28

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“…For example, Resnik (2003) argues that Holocaust sites have shaped national memory in the education system in Israel. Elsewhere, Ochman (2010) showed that Soviet war memorials affected Poland's identity processes, and Derderian (2002) profiles postcolonial Algeria as a lieu de mémoire.…”

Section: Lieux De Mémoire and Restorative Nostalgiamentioning

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Multifaced Hungarian Kin-State Activism in Szeklerland: Rebuilding the Last ‘Nation' Through Restorative Nostalgia and Lieux de Mémoire

Chiruta

2022

JEMIE

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This article explores the cultural dynamics of Fidesz's kin-state policies achieved in Romania between 2015 and 2020, particularly in the enclave of Szeklerland. In recent years, Fidesz's external policies constructed a transborder “synthetic home” connected to Hungary by memory spaces. Consequently, this study investigates how the ethnocultural reproduction and redefinition of the Hungarian heritage in Romania has evolved under these influences. To understand Fidesz's ethnic parallelism, this article studies Fidesz's overseas financial assistance for Hungarian cultural heritage and the actions of long-distance Hungarian nationalists from Romania. By analysing the lieux de mémoire from Szeklerland and the activities of political agents, this paper reveals how public spaces are nationalised under a Hungarian identity. This paper also shows that the dialectic of lieux, in the case of minorities separated from their homeland, features both a restorative process and commemorative rhetoric of a positive past. Finally, this paper reveals that lieux de mémoire are instrumental when synthetically reconstructing the lost home through religious and nationalist revivals.

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Section: Lieux De Mémoire and Restorative Nostalgiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Multifaced Hungarian Kin-State Activism in Szeklerland: Rebuilding the Last ‘Nation' Through Restorative Nostalgia and Lieux de Mémoire

Chiruta

2022

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“…5 Whether or not "colonial amnesia" is an appropriate understanding of complex politicohistorical relations between Belgians and Congolese is debated. Calling upon the writings of Derderian (2002), Ewans (2003), andHasian (2012), Bambi Ceuppens (2017)-an anthropologist and curator at the RMCA-holds that one should instead consider a dynamic of "cloistered remembering of truncated, skewed, and fragmented memories made up of legends and stereotypes elaborated out of fear of telling the truth. " See also Van den Braambussche (2002).…”

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Is Repatriation Inevitable?

Roberts

2019

African Arts

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first word Is Repatriation Inevitable? by Allen F. Roberts 1 This figure, invested by the matrilineal ancestors of the Tabwa chief Lusinga lwa Ng'ombe of what would become the Congo, was seized by mercenaries of the military officer Émile Storms in early December, 1884, and brought home with him to Belgium. Through the sculpture, Lusinga still has stories to tell, as during a visit to Los Angeles for the Shaping Power exhibition of 2013 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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“…3 For instance, the experiences of solidarity enacted at the border have contributed to build transversal alliances between migrants and citizens (Rygiel and Baban 2019). 4 Thus, by, mobilising this twofold analytical angle, this article departs from works which rethink national identity in light of migrants' presence (Derderian 2002;Hajjat 2005;Noiriel 1995). As part of this scholarship, authors have highlighted that frontiers 'crystallise in a particular way the memory of a nation in its relationships with the other states through conflicts' (Hanus 2019, 2), and therefore constitute crucial sites for investigating the constituent role of migration in redefining the nation.…”

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Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and rescue. The memory of solidarity at the Alpine border

Tazzioli

2021

Citizenship Studies

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This article advances a genealogy of migrant struggles and citizens solidarity practices, with a focus on the French-Italian migrant passage. It contends that scholarship has mainly mobilised a spatial approach to migrant struggles, while the temporality of solidarity and the collective memory of struggles have remained under-theorised. Then, the article moves on by focusing on the French-Italian Alpine border and it analyses the longstanding history of migrants' passages there and, jointly, the mobilisations that took place in that area over the last decades exploring how these sedimented a citizen collective memory of solidarity practices. The final section deals with the history of mountain rescue at the French-Italian Alpine border and shows how migrants were saved by volunteers. The piece concludes by arguing that an insight into the memory of migrant struggles and solidarity practices enables foregrounding the transversal alliances which have been built between migrants and citizens and unsettling binary opposition between the former and the latter.

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Algeria as a lieu de mémoire: Ethnic Minority Memory and National Identity in Contemporary France

Cited by 34 publications

References 16 publications

Multifaced Hungarian Kin-State Activism in Szeklerland: Rebuilding the Last ‘Nation' Through Restorative Nostalgia and Lieux de Mémoire

Multifaced Hungarian Kin-State Activism in Szeklerland: Rebuilding the Last ‘Nation' Through Restorative Nostalgia and Lieux de Mémoire

Is Repatriation Inevitable?

Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and rescue. The memory of solidarity at the Alpine border

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