Pride and shame in collective memory of Russian and American youths

Kasamara, Valeria; Sorokina, Anna; Maximenkova, Marina

doi:10.1080/00905992.2017.1381676

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“…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. Most recently, Kasamara et al (2018) used this model to study national events of pride and shame to be observed in memory perceptions among Russian and American youths. As McDonnell and Fine (2011) assert, what Schwartz and others provide is “the central body of work examining the emotive content of culture of memory, particularly focusing on the dual nature of national pride and shame” (p. 141; footnote #2).…”

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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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“…The discourse of a nation with strong continuity destabilized periodically by the conspiracies of the West is replicated in vernacular narratives in connection to deteriorated diplomatic relations with the USA and Europe in recent years (Blackburn 2018). Official hailing of Soviet achievements is well received, with nationwide polls recording increasing nostalgia for the USSR (Levada Center 2019) and Soviet memory seen as a point of connection with the national past among young people (Kasamara, Sorokina, and Maximenkova 2018). The annexation of Crimea in 2014 boosted patriotic sentiment, superseding ethnic minority resentment of assimilatory policies as well as middle-class disaffection with Putin's erosion of democracy that surfaced around his third election to presidential office (Sharafutdinova 2020).…”

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The Local Dynamics of Nation Building: Identity Politics and Constructions of the Russian Nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg

Wilmers

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article explores the role of place-based identity politics in constructions of the Russian nation by nongovernmental actors in the cities of Kazan and Ekaterinburg. Departing from more established approaches to the study of nation building concerned with elite strategies and actions, it contributes to an emerging line of inquiry focused on the agency of mesolevel actors. Drawing on interviews and analysis of public communications, the article demonstrates that actors such as museums, activist groups, and religious institutions creatively employ mainstream discursive practices present also in state narratives to anchor the nation in local symbols. At the same time, they position themselves in locally specific identity cleavages concerning city, regional, and ethnonational minority identities. The findings show that the imbrication of local identity politics in their narratives can problematize nation building by exposing contradictions in federal discourses or troubling the association of nation and state. Emphasizing the importance of locally situated processes of constructing the nation in conjunction with other scales of belonging, the article argues that nation building in Russia is complicated by mesolevel practices of identity making that can simultaneously support and subvert it.

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“…Researchers have conducted both case studies of particular countries (McDonnell and Fine 2011), and have also drawn on comparative perspectives. These studies make it possible to track differences between countries, in terms of which events become sources of pride and/or shame, how these events are interpreted, and how they are experienced (Kasamara, Sorokina, and Maximenkova 2018; Schwartz, Fukuoka and Takita-Ishii 2005; Schwartz and Kim 2001; Zhang and Schwartz 1997).…”

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“…Within the framework of this project, polls are being conducted in Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, South Korea, Japan, and Venezuela. Several studies have already been published based on the analysis of the collected data (Kasamara, Sorokina, Maximenkova 2018; Sorokina and Maximenkova 2020; Katrich 2021). The data collected during the realization of the project are used in this study, as well.…”

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Between Hard and Soft Power: British and Russian Youth on National Pride

Sorokina

Kasamara

Maximenkova

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This study examines the collective memory of British and Russian youth. We used the results of a comparative survey conducted among Russian and British students. The study focuses primarily on pride in the collective memory of young people with the aim of analyzing the category of pride among young people across several dimensions. First, we look at the qualitative content of national pride: pride in the realization of tasks related to “soft power” (for example, culture, education, sports), and pride in manifestations of “hard power” (for example, pride in military victories or power politics). Second, we analyze the temporal localization of national pride: where are the main events, personalities, and phenomena study participants take pride in, both in the past and in the present. Third, an important element of understanding pride in a country is the relationship between pride and shame: what events are mentioned more often: shameful or pride-inspiring.

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Pride and shame in collective memory of Russian and American youths

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 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

The Local Dynamics of Nation Building: Identity Politics and Constructions of the Russian Nation in Kazan and Ekaterinburg

Between Hard and Soft Power: British and Russian Youth on National Pride

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