Itinerant nationalisms and fracturing narratives: Incorporating regional dimensions of memory into peacebuilding

Purdeková, Andrea

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“…Historical memory is heterogeneous and presents itself in several dimensions: in the form of personal (family) historical memory, which is spontaneously formed by the social environment, in the form of a common historical memory, which is constructed and supported by the state (Polozhentseva & Kashchenko, 2014;Shnirelman, 2016) and in the form of regional historical memory, which is formed within the boundaries of the locus of residence. But if the narratives of different dimensions of historical memory do not agree with each other, then there may be a "torn memory effect", causing the loss of interest in the past, the emergence of a negative attitude to history, the birth of conflicts of personality, region and state (Barclay & Koefoed, 2021;Mazur, 2019;Purdeková, 2020). Such desynchronization poses threats to the existence of a positive civic identity.…”

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Historical Memory As Young People Civic Identity Formation Resource In Digitalization Context

Rozhkov¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Under the conditions of digitalization, the thesis of focusing individuals on images of the past has become extremely important, and the value of historical memory as a binding resource of civic identity has increased. The expansion of the digital environment contributes to the fragmentation of historical memory, promoting many different narratives of the past, including those with destructive potential. The article summarizes the results of research on the influence of historical memory on the development of youth civic identity. Pilot studies conducted with the authors' participation among schoolchildren in Krasnodar, as well as students of two Kuban universities demonstrate the stabilizing potential of civic identity in the conditions of digitalization. It was found that young people with a civic-type identity were less likely to express their desire to take part in protests and had a higher level of social trust compared to young people with a different type of social identity. Along with this, the images of the family past have the value potential in the student environment, which indicates the influence of historical memory on the identity of young people. The authors of the article note the presence of a "threshold of experience" in the personal historical memory of students, due to the experience of their great-grandparents who survived the Great Patriotic War.

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Historical Memory As Young People Civic Identity Formation Resource In Digitalization Context

Rozhkov¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…As a result of changes taking place in the world community, the interest in border territories has significantly increased [1]. In modern conditions of integration and globalization, regions actively use their advantages to stimulate the processes of economic development [2].…”

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Evaluation of social and environmental entrepreneurship development in Russia and Finland

2021

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The presented article explores aspects of the development of social entrepreneurship within the border areas of Russia and Finland. The aim of the study is to assess the opportunities for the development of social entrepreneurship. The object of the research is the consumers of the service sector in Russia and Finland. The research method is a questionnaire survey, as a result of which the formed questions provide information about the development of the entrepreneurial sector. The study analyzes the needs and opportunities for the development of social entrepreneurship in the border areas. The assessment of the development of the sphere of social entrepreneurship uses the method of focus groups, which allows getting the analysis of the situation from the experts from Karelia and Finland. As a result of the research the differences in separate directions of development of the entrepreneurial sector in the Republic of Karelia and Finland have been revealed. The differences in the expectations of young people of the countries under consideration and the fears of Russian and Finnish respondents were determined. The obtained results allow us to determine the differences in social and economic policy of the states

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“…In terms of broader debates on memory politics in the wake of and amidst war and conflict, the dominant preoccupation is still with ‘present pasts’ (Huyssen, 2003) or what Werbner (1998) calls ‘post-wars of the dead’ – the ways in which violence is brought into a post-conflict present. Available scholarship analyses how memories of violent past shape local and national politics, foreign policies, how they are incorporated into political production and how they might inform renewed violence or peace-building (see Purdekova and Mwambari, 2022; Purdekova, 2020, 2015). There is work looking at specific sites of violence and memorials and how they are used for these purposes (Subotić, 2019a; Volkan, 2001).…”

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Memory as vulnerability: Reinhabiting sites of violence and the politics of triumphalist amnesia in Kenya’s war on terror

Purdeková

2022

Security Dialogue

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Rectification as the return of sites of violence to prior use is little studied even as governments often defiantly reconstruct such sites and urge citizens to visit them as a way to combat ‘terror’. Using the case study of the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya and the subsequent return of the site to prior use, the article reflects on the broader practices of erasure of violence from public space as a unique form of a memory–security nexus. The article reads amnesia and its effects through material and social practices of rectification – renovation, fortification, closure and reopening, and the experiences of survivors and non-survivors in reinhabiting these spaces. The ways in which violence is vacated from space and speech, and the ways in which its absence is encountered by diverse people, produce a rich transcript on memory and its entanglements with security agendas. They also reveal the deleterious effects of politicized ‘triumphalist amnesia’ enlisted as a counter-terror tool, including the emotional tax and public distrust arising from non-recognition when memory is equated with vulnerability and forgetting with defiance. Triumphalist amnesia might produce the opposite effect – a failure to root out violence and insecurity among those asked to confront it.

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Itinerant nationalisms and fracturing narratives: Incorporating regional dimensions of memory into peacebuilding

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Historical Memory As Young People Civic Identity Formation Resource In Digitalization Context

Historical Memory As Young People Civic Identity Formation Resource In Digitalization Context

Evaluation of social and environmental entrepreneurship development in Russia and Finland

Memory as vulnerability: Reinhabiting sites of violence and the politics of triumphalist amnesia in Kenya’s war on terror

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