L’histoire, les lois, les mémoires. Sur quelques conflits récents en Europe

Cajani, Luigi

doi:10.4000/rfp.1085

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“…The second category of memory instruments groups those that have a mechanism for prescription, which aims at imposing an obligation not to resort to the mechanism of prohibition with criminal sanction. This prescription is based on injunctions of various types that can be illustrated by three French and Belgian memory instruments, the two French instruments illustrating, according to Luigi Cajani (2008: 71), the political authority’s attempt to control historical discourse. These instruments are, yet again, very often preceded by recognition policies (for France, see Bancel and Blanchard, 2010; Jean, 2011; Vergès, 2010, and for Belgium, see Lagrou, 1997; Raxhon, 2002, 2008; Wouters and Luyten, 2014).…”

Section: The Exercise Of Direct Constraintsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Official memories and legal constraints: A classification of memory instruments in France and Belgium

Grandjean

2019

Memory Studies

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Public authorities do not have a monopoly over memory constraint in the sense that they are not alone in promoting collective memories. However, the article suggests a classification of the memory instruments in France and Belgium according to the degree of legal constraint (sanctioning, prescriptive and latent). This classification offers a new understanding of the exercise of the legal constraints which are a way for the public authorities to offer specific accounts of certain past events.

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Section: The Exercise Of Direct Constraintsmentioning

confidence: 99%