Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia

Huyssen, Andreas

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“…In the latest phase of the design of Kazakh tourism, the Borat image was turned into a discursive tabula rasa, a sign ready to be re-encoded in cosmetically plausible ways. This time, the new spirit of capitalism embraced the innovative take of an outsider to the Kazakh nation, for his ability to remove unpleasant gendered and racialised scripts from Borat 2’s superscript (Huyssen, 2000).…”

Section: The Borat Effect On Tourism Design: Phasing the New Spirit Of Capitalismmentioning

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Tourism worldmaking and market post-truth: Borat’s new spirit of capitalism

Tzanelli

2021

Tourist Studies

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The article develops a theoretical framework for the critical examination of cinematic tourist design. Considering ‘film-induced tourism’ as part of a bigger system involving the design of mobilities, it interrogates the connection between the aesthetic and ethical principles that end up informing the engineering of national hospitality in media platforms. The design, which is managed by a ‘worldmaking authority’ or network encompassing the host nation state and international tourist and media markets, conforms to the rationalised rules of what Boltanski and Chiapello termed the ‘new spirit of capitalism’, which mobilises romantic ideals of individual freedom to sell landscapes and exotic cultural characters. The phased development of such mobilities conforms to contingency and is indifferent to the welfare of particular social groups. The model is exemplified through the phased design of mobilities out of two films with virulent sexist and antisemitic content centred on the journeys of the fictional Kazakh journalist Borat to the United States.

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Section: The Borat Effect On Tourism Design: Phasing the New Spirit Of Capitalismmentioning

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Tourism worldmaking and market post-truth: Borat’s new spirit of capitalism

Tzanelli

2021

Tourist Studies

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“…Yet, in practice, transitional justice initiatives that seek to bring to the surface 'the truth' about 'the past' often utilise a rationality suggesting that dealing with 'the past' will enable the achievement of a positive future that is deemed morally acceptable. This is, for example, visible in the logic of 'nunca mas' reports (Hayner, 2011) and the recent boom in memorial museums and memorialisation initiatives (Huyssen, 2000;Sodaro, 2018). Teresa Oteíza and Claudio Pineur (2010) have demonstrated how the reports of the Chilean truth commissions also distinguish very clearly between past, present and future, while, in fact, the dynamics of memory cannot be understood in such a linear way.…”

Section: Transitional History and Multidirectional Memorymentioning

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Using restorative justice to rethink the temporality of transition in Chile

Haan¹,

Destrooper²

2021

The International Journal of Restorative Justice

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Assumptions of linear progress and a clean break with the past have long characterised transitional justice interventions. This notion of temporality has increasingly been problematised in transitional justice scholarship and practice. Scholars have argued that a more complex understanding of temporalities is needed that better accommodates the temporal messiness and complexity of transitions, including their ongoingness, multilayeredness and multidirectionality. Existing critiques, however, have not yet resulted in a new conceptual framework for thinking about transitional temporalities. This article builds on insights from the field of restorative justice to develop such a framework. This framework foregrounds longer timelines, multilayered temporalities and temporal ecologies to better reflect reality on the ground and victims' lived experiences. We argue that restorative justice is a useful starting point to develop such a temporal framework because of its actor-oriented, flexible and interactive nature and proximity to the field of transitional justice. Throughout this article we use the case of Chile to illustrate some of the complex temporal dynamics of transition and to illustrate what a more context-sensitive temporal lens could mean for such cases of unfinished transition.

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“…Paul Ricoeur is less cynical about memory, claiming that there is a tendency in history to celebrate the victors, but often more can be learnt from those who have suffered: "the duty to remember is a duty to teach" (Ricoeur, 1999: 10-11). Acclaimed movie director, Luis Bunuel, asserts (1983: 5) that there is in fact no life without memory: "our memory is 10 Hodgkin and Radstone, 2003;Huyssen, 1995Huyssen, , 1996Huyssen, , 2000Klein, 2000;Passerini, 2003;Ricoeur, 1999;Rozentals, 2008;Todorov, 2001;Zehfuss, 2006. our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.…”

Section: History and Memorymentioning

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“…The global spread of memorialisation that we are currently witnessing (Bell 2003(Bell , 2006Huyssen 2000;Nora 1989Nora , 2002, has called forth increasing examples of attempts to 'decenter' history. The globalisation of specific responses to memory is seen most prominently in the pervasiveness of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (Bell, 2006), and a 'world-wide memorialism' involving attempts to reconcile the past with the present (Nora, 2002) The past continues to haunt the present, as the responses to the wars of the 1990s, such as the Gulf War, civil wars in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, and the Kosovo War, highlight (Bell, 2006).…”

Section: Contesting the Past In The Present: Global Concerns With Memorymentioning

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“…89 cf. Funder, 2003: 52;Huyssen, 2000;Nietzsche, 1969;Nora, 1989Nora, , 2002Ricoeur, 1999. 90 Yun Ch'oe and Mark Morris (2010) claim that forgetfulness of the extremity of past events may have actually helped Koreans to move without fear into the future and build their modern nation and Cho Han Hae-Joang asks (2000: 67) "Have South Koreans been walking so quickly and mindlessly in order to forget the terrible experiences that they have had to go through?" that the conflict between violent aspects of history and the sanitised cultural future that many officials are emphasising is growing.…”

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Contesting Collective Representations of the Past: The Politics of Memory in South Korea

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<p>Because monuments, memorials and other 'sites of memory' privilege particular collective interpretations of the past over others, they represent inherently contentious and political spaces. Contention over representing the past is particularly resonant in Korea, where sites of memory are imbued with strong, often polarised meanings. By focusing on two such sites in Korea, this thesis seeks to discuss the wider implications of the ongoing conflict over what representations of the past should be privileged. In Gwangju, the area surrounding the former provincial hall (docheong) is being redeveloped, part of the city's attempts to become 'reborn' as a capital city of human rights and democracy in Asia. However, to many citizens in Gwangju, this new image ignores the meaning that the city's dissident past holds for local communal understandings of identity. Conflict arose as citizens protested to keep the symbolism of the docheong intact, thus, helping to maintain local narratives of the past. In Seoul, Myeongdong Cathedral, a key symbol of protest and democracy in the 1970s and 1980s, is now having its meaning re-interpreted, as the Catholic Church de-couples religion from socio-political concerns. The conflicting meanings of Myeongdong Cathedral are representative of a wider divergence in Korean society, as apathy towards Korea's past grows among society at large while other segments appropriate the past to protest contemporary socio-political concerns. Ultimately, these Korean case studies emphasise that the meanings sites of memory convey are not fixed, and that groups are often able to appropriate sites to affirm their own narratives of the past and to emphasise their own collective voice. Therefore, sites that represent particular understandings of the past, while contentious, also provide a space for debate and, thus, help to understand ongoing concerns within wider society.</p>

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Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia

Cited by 32 publications

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Tourism worldmaking and market post-truth: Borat’s new spirit of capitalism

Tourism worldmaking and market post-truth: Borat’s new spirit of capitalism

Using restorative justice to rethink the temporality of transition in Chile

Contesting Collective Representations of the Past: The Politics of Memory in South Korea

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