Using cultural trauma:<scp>G</scp>andhi's assassination, partition and secular nationalism in post‐independence<scp>I</scp>ndia

Debs, Mira

doi:10.1111/nana.12038

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“…Mahatma Gandhi (Debs ) or the terrorist attacks of 9/11 (Couch, Wade, and Kindler ) have deeply influenced India and the United States, respectively. People also believe they are important for world history.…”

Section: A Typology Of Global Collective Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Universal King? Memory, Globalization, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jijón

2017

Sociological Inquiry

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This article examines how Martin Luther King, Jr. is remembered and represented by journalists in Ghana, South Africa, and Mexico, looking at coverage of “critical discourse moments” from King's life and legacy (1963–2016). I argue that representations of King vary in terms of local resonance—how well foreign figures or events align with local myths, values, and expectations—and global salience—the perceived world historical importance of a past figure or event. I then propose a new typology of global memory reception.

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Section: A Typology Of Global Collective Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Universal King? Memory, Globalization, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jijón

2017

Sociological Inquiry

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“…This can be because the collective trauma is a racial memory, which Eyerman (2011, p. 46) points out "is distinct 16 Quotes presented in this article range from those who never integrated (4), those who integrated earlier in their childhood from second through ninth grade (6), those on the front lines who integrated between tenth through twelfth grade (6), to former teachers at the colored schools (4), from and lives alongside a national, collective memory", and therefore has less appeal to the moral universal narrative of good and evil (Eyerman, 2011;Sitas, 2015). Other events struggle to emerge as cultural traumas because of the victim group's inability to assuredly identify the true perpetrator-the "they" who did this to "us" (Bartmanski & Eyerman, 2011;Debs, 2013). A third explanation for why some cultural traumas fail to fully emerge, or are delayed for prolonged periods of time, is that the victim group does not yet have elite carriers who have access to the public sphere (Debs, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other events struggle to emerge as cultural traumas because of the victim group's inability to assuredly identify the true perpetrator-the "they" who did this to "us" (Bartmanski & Eyerman, 2011;Debs, 2013). A third explanation for why some cultural traumas fail to fully emerge, or are delayed for prolonged periods of time, is that the victim group does not yet have elite carriers who have access to the public sphere (Debs, 2013).…”

Section: Carrier Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Before they were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky's Coal Camp Blacks

Brown¹

2017

Preprint

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My dissertation project is an empirical examination of the ways in which social transformations of the 20th century—read along the grain of the Great Migration—impacted the collective identity of African Americans over space and time. In this work, I will analyze the racialized subjectivity and identity (trans)formation of a diaspora of African Americans who partook in an intergenerational migration from the plantations of central Alabama to the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky in the first half of the 20th century, and then moved on to urban cities throughout the United States throughout the Civil Rights-era. The latter generation of migrants collectively experienced major shifts in the social structures of their community of origin, such as transitioning from “colored schools” to a State mandated integrated school system, retrenchment in the labor economy of a single-industry community, and the subsequent mass out-migration from their community of origin. These jolts to the social structures of their society not only altered their horizon of opportunity, but also resulted in major dislocations in the cultural systems that informed their collective identity. Particular to the case, I am concerned with the ways in which these cultural traumas—memories of events that collectivities believe rended the social fabric of their society—impacted the collective identity of this diaspora. In spite of their geographic dispersion, this generation of migrants has managed to stay connected through a set of “invented traditions” that they constituted at the tail end of their out-migration. For example, the Eastern Kentucky Social Club—an organization established by this group of migrants in 1970—has hosted a reunion in different cities across the country every year for the last forty-four years. At its height, this event drew over 3,000 African American migrants from across the country. The broader aim of the project is to reconstruct the rich history and culture of this special population of Black Appalachians to put forth a re-examination of W.E.B. Du Bois’ phenomenological analysis of racialized subjectivity and African American identity formation in 20th century America.The overarching research questions that guide this study are (1) How do we explain the emergence of their post-migration diasporic identity? (2) How has their collective identity been negotiated, transformed and reinscribed through their changing, and sometimes contested, subjectivity as racialized American citizens through the continuum of the pre and post civil rights era? I will specifically focus on three events that have been the site of transformation for the individuals in my case, (1) the school desegregation process—an event that occurred almost a decade after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in this region, (2) the mass out-migration from southeastern Kentucky—a community level event that was a precursor to the emergence of their diasporic identity, and (3) the construction of the EKAAMP archive—an event that marks the institutional transference from memory to history. These eventful temporalities provide three categories of analysis that will allow me to make important linkages to my research questions in the context of the past, present, and future.

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“…Ribbens and Captain ). Not all horrible events become cultural traumas for societies (Debs ). Cultural traumas occur only when the patterned meanings of the collectivity are abruptly dislodged (Alexander ).…”

Section: Sociological Insight For Studying the Meaning Of National Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining age differences in positive attitudes towards national commemorations: the role of what people commemorate

Regt

Jaspers

Lippe

2016

Nations and Nationalism

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Commemorations of shared national history are important to the process of nation‐building. Support for such national commemorations is not, however, evenly distributed in societies. Because this could endanger the possible integrative function of commemorative ceremonies, it is important to understand the sources of structural differences in support. In this article, age differences in support for national commemorations in the Netherlands are examined. It is argued that because age cohorts grow up with different ideas on what should be commemorated they also differ in value attached to such commemorations. Data from the National Freedom Enquiry 2012 show that older persons more often associate national commemorations with the Second World War than younger persons do, and that this is the reason why they are more supportive of the annual celebration of Liberation Day. In the concluding section, it is argued that more (quantitative) studies should be conducted in order to truly understand the mechanisms behind support of national commemorations as this may help us to better comprehend the processes construing feelings of national belonging.

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Using cultural trauma:Gandhi's assassination, partition and secular nationalism in post‐independenceIndia

Cited by 42 publications

References 35 publications

The Universal King? Memory, Globalization, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Universal King? Memory, Globalization, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Before they were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky's Coal Camp Blacks

Explaining age differences in positive attitudes towards national commemorations: the role of what people commemorate

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