Elina Sana’s Luovutetut and the Politics of History

Tilli, Jouni

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“…Jouni Tilli, for example, says that the political character of certain key historical interpretations "has been somewhat neglected … often in ways that deny the political character of historiography." 72 In contrast, as Brüggemann and Kasekamp argue, Estonia has made major strides in "deconstructing the once dominant narratives of suffering nations," and in coming to terms with its troubled past and a divided historical memory in the public sphere (beyond academic historical research). 73 This has led to open contestation, debate and conflict over the politics of history and to clashes of history politics in a process headed towards the "democratization of memory" over the "sacralization of memory."…”

Section: Finland 100 and International Comparative History Politicsmentioning

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Undemocratic History Politics in a Democratic State: Celebrations of Finland’s 100 Years of Independence

Korhonen

2021

Auc Studia Territorialia

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This article analyses the history politics of the Finnish state as illustrated by the organization of the celebrations of the centenary of Finland's independence. The article suggests that the Finnish state and its Finland 100 project promoted an undemocratic, controlled, and carefully curated approach towards the politics of history. An homage to pluralism was constructed on top of an immutable national narrative that was actively safeguarded and adopted as the only acceptable framework for interpretation of the connections between Finland's past, the present, and future. In other words, as the primary source documents I analyzed show, lip service to the "harmonious coexistence of different perspectives" was coupled with controls over contested and alternative interpretations, with guidelines that urged the Finland 100 organizers to "report any weak signals of crisis to central communications in good time.

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Section: Finland 100 and International Comparative History Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Undemocratic History Politics in a Democratic State: Celebrations of Finland’s 100 Years of Independence

Korhonen

2021

Auc Studia Territorialia

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`They are also victims of the war´: heritage narratives of the Nazis and their victims in Finland

Matila

Herva

2022

Rethinking History

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The representation of Jews in the Finnish press before the second world war

Ryynänen

2023

Ethnicities

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This article focuses on the representation of Jews in the Finnish general press before the Second World War. The data comprise of 313 texts gathered from newspapers and magazines that were targeted at general audiences and that appeared between the years 1821–1936. The texts were examined on three levels: First, the upfront topics pertaining to Jews were identified and grouped under 12 themes. Second, the tone of the mentions was evaluated as positive, neutral, or negative. Third, underlying assumptions, opinions and attitudes expressed aside the upfront topics were identified from the texts. Until recent decades, the idea in Finland has been that there was hardly any antisemitism in the country before or during the Second World War. As new research has emerged, this view has repeatedly been challenged. However, research on the general media’s representation of Jews has remained scarce. This article aims at filling this gap. In doing so, it offers a view on how Jews were seen and discussed in the Finnish society at large. So far, the studies on pre-WWII media have concluded that antisemitism was limited to far-right or ultranationalist papers. This article ends up with the opposite conclusion.

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Elina Sana’s Luovutetut and the Politics of History

Cited by 3 publications

References 1 publication

Undemocratic History Politics in a Democratic State: Celebrations of Finland’s 100 Years of Independence

Undemocratic History Politics in a Democratic State: Celebrations of Finland’s 100 Years of Independence

`They are also victims of the war´: heritage narratives of the Nazis and their victims in Finland

The representation of Jews in the Finnish press before the second world war

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