Rhetoric, history, and collective memory: Decoding the Goldhagen debates

Re-Collection: A Proposal for Refining the Study of Collective Memory and its Places

“…3 We also draw upon work in landscape studies (e.g., Birksted, 2000;Schama, 1996;Stewart & Strathern, 2003), as well as anthropologist Boyarin's (1994) work on the notion of ''timespace,'' in offering this idea. 4 Other collective work in communication has explored the remembered past as it is discursively represented in speeches, legal settings, and popular culture (e.g., Biesecker, 2002;Bruner, 2000;Griffen, 2003;Hasian, 2001Hasian, , 2002Hasian, , 2005Hasian & Carlson, 2000;Hasian & Frank, 1999;Titsworth & St. John, 2005). 5 Halbwachs first wrote about collective memory in 1925.…”

“…4 4 Other collective work in communication has explored the remembered past as it is discursively represented in speeches, legal settings, and popular culture (e.g., Biesecker, 2002; Bruner, 2000; Griffen, 2003; Hasian, 2001, 2002, 2005; Hasian & Carlson, 2000; Hasian & Frank, 1999; Titsworth & St. John, 2005). …”

Remembering Japanese Militarism Through the Fusosha Textbook: The Collective Memory of the Asian-Pacific War in Japan

“…Textbooks that are embracing the philosophy of the Ministry of Education-in the most prominent case, the Fusosha textbook-can pass the review process unchallenged. History textbooks supposedly teach children what is accepted by intellectual communities as ''authentic'' (Hasian & Frank, 1999) and not what is deemed desirable by a country's leading party. 21 The knowledge acquired in school is durable and self-perpetuating (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1977) and what children learn will influence how they approach information later.…”

“…Hasian and Frank (1999) define collective memories as ''the public acceptances or ratifications of . .…”

Addressing Corporate Ties to Slavery: Corporate Apologia in a Discourse of Reconciliation

“…Consequently, it is not only concerned with financial recognition but with collective memory and the construction of American history. While dominant accounts of the past are commonly characterized by selective forgetfulness (see Hasian & Frank, 1999;Zelizer, 1995), oppressed groups have continuously struggled to gain recognition and acknowledgement of their part within the construction of history and memory.…”