Collective Memory

Schwartz, Barry

doi:10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosc066

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“…This paper builds upon a series of studies conducted by Barry Schwartz and his colleagues that analyze national shame and pride by referring to socio-cultural and historical contexts in various societies, including the United States, Germany, Korea, and Japan (Fukuoka, 2017; Fukuoka and Schwartz, 2010; Schwartz et al, 2005; Schwartz and Heinrich, 2004; Schwartz and Kim, 2001). By replicating this so-called Judging the Past framework, McDonnell and Fine (2011) investigates pride and shame in national imagining among the youth in Ghana.…”

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Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth

Fukuoka

Takita‐Ishii

2021

Memory Studies

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The past continuously haunts Japan. It has been more than 75 years since the end of the last war and Japan has never fully reconciled with its Asian neighbors, especially China and South Korea, over the question of how to commemorate Japan’s past wrongs and atone for the physical as well as the psychological wounds it caused in Asia. In this context, also problematized is the question of intergenerational responsibility. Can the members of current generations feel responsibility and obligation to make restitution for wrongs perpetrated before they were born? If so, how? If not, why not? As it is reported that the Japanese public’s sense of affinity toward China and South Korea greatly deteriorated in the 2010s due to a series of memory disputes, it seems imperative to delve into the Japanese youth’s sense of the past. In this exploratory study, by following Barry Schwartz and his colleagues’ Judging the Past framework, we conducted college student surveys (N = 320) in 2017/2018 and interviews (N = 31) in 2017 and explored the cognitive connection between the Japanese youth’s sense of nation and their perceptions of moral responsibility for Japan’s militaristic past.

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Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth

Fukuoka

Takita‐Ishii

2021

Memory Studies

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“…Building on Durkheim, he sought to understand how collective memory(s) functions to maintain group solidarity, reproduce social order and frame cultural identities -a social fact that generates moving images at the intersection of microcosmic order and historical context. As Schwartz (2007) puts it, collective memory refers to the distribution throughout society of what individuals know, believe, and feel about past events and persons, how they morally judge them, how closely they identify with them, and how much they are inspired by them as models for their conduct and identity. (p. 588) In so doing, collective memory reproduces a sense of continuity between the past and present -reconstructions of the past that provide order and coherence to events of deep emotional significance for a specific age cohort.…”

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Historical voices, collective memory and interdiscursive trauma in the legal order

Matoesian

Gilbert

2019

Discourse & Society

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This study examines how collective memory and cultural trauma inhere in the multimodal interplay between macro structures of space-time and microcosmic action. Using a criminal trial as data, we show how collective memories and cultural sentiments function in the multimodal details of poetic oratory and emotionally charged speech to frame evidence, construct legal identity and shape the interpretation of testimony. Legal actors integrate language, gesture and gaze to shift the plane of legal reality into a sacred performance, a solemn and co-operative ritual that contains thoroughly unveiled allusions to the assassinations of President John F Kennedy and Senator Robert F Kennedy. In so doing, lawyers and witness co-construct an emergent space for jurors to step into history and connect to national tragedy as a socio-legal strategy.

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“…National commemorations are one component of invented traditions, which unify the nation around a particular ritual or memory and distinguish them from outsiders who do not participate (Gillis ; Hobsbawm and Ranger ; Spillman ). These commemorations also create a collective memory – that is, ‘the distribution throughout society of beliefs, feelings, moral judgments, and knowledge about the past’ (Schwartz ; see also Nora ; Olick and Robbins ; Warner [1959]). This process is inherently social and discursive; in Halbwachs’ words, ‘It is in society that people normally acquire their memories.…”

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‘We Will Re‐Member Them’: Muslims in the Great War Semi‐Centenary

Tinsley

2014

Studies Ethnicity & National

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In August 1964, the semi-centenary of the First World War's onset coincided with uncertainty about Britain's future: decolonization had resulted in a diminished role in the international sphere, and migration had begun to alter the dominant ethnic and religious character of the metropolis. Britons increasingly confronted the question of what it meant to belong to the postcolonial nation. In this context, First World War commemorations served a twofold purpose: first, they revised prior representations of colonial subjects in the war, in light of contemporary realities; and second, they served as an outlet for imperial nostalgia. This article considers the relationship between race, nation, and collective memory by analysing representations of Muslim colonial subjects in the 1964 BBC documentary, The Great War. A content analysis aims to explain how Britain's evolving collective memory reveals its dominant national identity and, by extension, its willingness to accommodate postcolonial newcomers.

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Collective Memory

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth

Judging the past: Memory, others, and intergenerational responsibility among the Japanese youth

Historical voices, collective memory and interdiscursive trauma in the legal order

‘We Will Re‐Member Them’: Muslims in the Great War Semi‐Centenary

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