At Westkapelle, history and landscape meet in powerful ways. On our third day there, we walked from Westkapelle towards Domburg and passed several war monuments — solemn reminders of the tragedy that struck this coastline in WWII. In 1944, Allied forces bombed the dikes to flood the area, a painful but tactical move to hinder German occupation. The cost was immense: many lives were lost, homes destroyed, and communities displaced. Liberation came, but at a heavy price.
Beyond the monuments stands the small but striking Vuurtoren Noorderhoofd (North Head Lighthouse). Painted in vibrant red, it watches over the sea — a beacon of safety, but also a symbol. To me, it represents both remembrance and resilience. We cannot erase the scars of the past, nor should we. They remind us of what unchecked hate, racism, and aggression can bring.
Yet the lighthouse also points forward. Just as its light guides ships to safer waters, so too can memory guide us toward a future built on peace, justice, and vigilance. “Never again” was the promise after WWII — a call not only to remember but to act, wherever injustice rises.
History is not behind us; it’s beside us, shaping every step. Standing there, with the sea winds and the red tower against the horizon, I felt that message deeply: look ahead, but never forget.
#Westkapelle #Zeeland #Lighthouse #Vuurtoren #NorthHead #Noorderhoofd #WWIIHistory #NeverForget #Remembrance #WarMemorial #HistoryMatters #CollectiveMemory #PeaceNotWar #NeverAgain #LearnFromHistory #StopWar #HumanRights #Resilience #Hope #LookForward #Freedom #Democracy #HistoryAndNature #LandscapePhotography #HistoryPhotography #CanonPhotography #Sigma100400 #Canon5DMIV #PhotographyForPeace #HistoricalPlaces #Monuments #WWIIMemorial #CoastalView #Seascape #OceanView #BeaconsOfHope #Symbolism #PastAndFuture #PeaceAndJustice #DocumentaryPhotography #HistoryThroughTheLens
#CollectiveMemory
Silly silly rabbits; I planted it in collective memory, every pear of eyes and ears count. #cloudconnected #markofcaaan #markofcain #collectivememory
Think of how you feel 30 years later, now with #livedexperience of being a #caregiver or #struggling to survive #disability. #Gettingold comes for all of us - if we're so lucky. #disabilityrights #millennial #robertseanleonard #noahwyle #xennials #collectivememory
Local archives are disappearing. Does it matter?
Every day, small newspapers and radio stations shut down, taking decades of local history with them. No digitization. No preservation. Just erased memory.
Without archives, who holds power accountable?
Without records, how do we learn from past mistakes?
Read my full article on why losing media archives weakens democracy →
https://medium.com/@ptit.tolier/part1-the-disappearance-of-local-media-archives-51dbc0e8570e
#MemoryMatters #SaveLocalNews #DemocracyInDanger #CollectiveMemory
« There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith. »
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/773040962002911232/there-is-a-collective-memory-of-god-in-the-human
#quotes #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel #faith #DivineIntelligence #CollectiveMemory
The Netherlands is a case of commemoration and heritage demonstrating alternative conceptions of justice within communities. Explore this through #newResearch offered by Jing Hiah, Dorota Lepianka, and Machteld Geuskens.
#Sociology #Netherlands #justice @sociology #collectiveMemory
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2024.2434630
We don't talk about nation states #CollectiveMemory #CollectivePsyche , especially the #Darkside of it. As we all know, in #American #History its often hidden or denied. We never recovered from Jim Crow, Reconstruction, and Slavery. We created #Eugenics, #Hitler and #Mussolini took a lot from the #UnitedStates historcially and created something "Neu". We never dealt with #Covid19, it was a global plague, and we don't talk about it, and we need to talk about it a lot.
@internetarchive
The Vanishing Culture report is a wake-up call to how easily our shared knowledge can slip away. Let’s protect what connects us to our roots.
"The first live-streamed genocide in history"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A
Pairs hauntingly with https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/oct/05/israel-gaza-october-7-memorials
War crimes apologists will be blocked
⬆️ @davidbootster @xs4me2 @vosje62 @veranderwens @ErikBloemkolk49
>> if… part of the third generation does not know who #Hitler is, then that collective memory is non-existent
That erosion of #collectiveMemory accelerates in the #thirdGeneration.
#Amnesia actually starts with #ecstasy followed by #complacence in the #secondGeneration, that quickly forgets the grief of the #firstGeneration after a major war in which the #greatestGeneration made the ultimate sacrifice.
#PeaceConstant is 3 gens
I am looking for someone (academic, creative practitioner) located in the East Midlands who can expertly deliver a short talk on poetry, armed conflict, and memory (preferably with reference to the 21C). Please get in touch.
#war #armedconflict #trauma #poetry #memory #commemoration #collectivememory #remembrance #humanities
"Truth-telling is now more important than ever.
What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement
>>
Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-neither-a-monster-nor-a-saint-sir-samuel-griffith-queenslands-violent-frontier-and-the-rigours-of-truth-telling-222262
#TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent
Collective memory
@quotes
@palestine
#CollectiveMemory
#SusanAbulhawa
#ancestors
#love
Klaus A Uellenberg's study gives a compact overview of #Kennedy's representation in post-1963 fiction, drama and poetry, and his status in American #CollectiveMemory
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=747525730
#JFK60 #JohnFKennedy
#MemoryStudies #LiteraryStudies #AmericanLiterature
Michael J Hogan https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1626221030
& Steven Watts https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=855335394
take a closer look at how #JFK and the #JFKassassination altered #AmericanCulture & ideals of #Masculinity & how they present in #CollectiveMemory
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
“The steadfast struggle of the #Palestinian people for freedom is sustained by the long-enduring Palestinian #collectiveMemory that decades of exile and repression have failed to eradicate. This memory is held in house keys still worn on chains around necks, is found in #oralHistories and #familyArchives, is present in the work of artists and writers, and is heard in the calls of refugees now reverberating around the world.”
I've been reading Anil Dash's "in memorium" posts, shared every September since 2001.
I hadn't read the last many years; at least not since around 2011.
It's important that a record of authentic experience is kept. The myth - so far from the truth - took hold a long time ago, but it is still important. I'm grateful to him and others like him for speaking their truth.
https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-neuroscience-of-nationalism-c41
Nationalisms of every type and stripe - from ethnonationalism to ‘my country firsters’ to progressive nationalism to regressive nationalism to civic nationalism to so many others (Wiki does an admirable job of cataloguing them) - are one of the defining features of our political and social lives, right across the whole world...
#Collectivememory #imaginedcommunities #mentaltimetravel #agency #identity #substack
Surprised/delighted to walk into the library today and see something I worked on in the new acquisitions display.
Link to the paper:
#HistoricalDialogue #GenPrev #genocide #histodons #collectivememory #MuseumStudies #MemoryStudies
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