Kazakhstan confronts its Soviet past with transparency and reform, while Russia revives Stalin’s image to justify repression and war. Two nations, two paths for historical memory https://timesca.com/tokayev-honors-victims-while-putin-rewrites-stalins-past/ #Kazakhstan #SovietHistory #HistoricalMemory #Russia #Stalin #MemoryPolitics #CentralAsia
#MemoryPolitics
Pre Orders for 1001 Accurate Memories Now Open
From traumatic memory culture to learning with bodies
https://www.alexhead.com/bookstore
In 1001 Accurate Memories Berlin artist Alex Head presents patterns of self-repair amongst the ruins of ideas, relationships and human bodies. The author travels across space and time attempting to gain insights into class, disability and trauma through drawing, writing and photography. His investigation into traumatic memory tempts the author to suggest a shift from Germany’s professed ‘memory culture’ to a ‘traumatic memory culture’, in that traumatic memory is greatly more accurate. Consequently, 1001 Accurate Memories seeks to locate the reader back within their own skin by highlighting our differentiated but ultimately shared anatomy. Birthed from a seven year odyssey into blood, guts and tears, the work proposes that sensations in the body begin wider processes of understanding. By identifying the value of listening to the body in this way, the interpretative role of the human brain becomes more apparent. From this insight stems the ability to see trauma, memory and political propaganda as forms of easily manipulated emotional information. This leads Head to conclude that the primary way to counter such manipulation is the spiritual, physical and mental self-determination of the human body.
There are no special giveaways for pre ordering. The goal is to increase the print run from 100 to 150/200 copies. Each sale creates proportionally more and more copies!
Released first on #Mastodon
Dispatched April-May.
#books #publishing #memory #memoryculture #errinerungskultur #memorypolitics #trauma #artist #art #drawing #photography #newyork #glasgow #plovdiv #london #jakarta #berlin #florence #fedifirst #fedi #somatic #bodies #self #determination #selfdetermination
#human #emotion
Zitat-Aufrufe:
Marwan Abado, Persson Perry Baumgartinger, Stefan Benedik, Gabu Heindl, Klara Kostal, Astrid Peterle, Frida Robles, Simonida Selimović, Selma Selman
Comics: Aleksandar Zograf
Linolschnitte: Edda Thürriedl
Fotos: Igor Ripak
Erschienen im Mandelbaum Verlag – danke an Elke Smodics.
Ein Projekt der Initiative Erinnern in Zukunft (Brunnenpassage Wien).
#Demokratie #MemoryPolitics #GegenDasVergessen #KunstUndErinnerung
The Legacy of Al-Andalus: A Conversation with Eric Calderwood
#memorypolitics
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https://eclectic-intellection.simplecast.com/episodes/the-legacy-of-al-andalus-a-conversation-with-eric-calderwood
a challenging read on #Germany by #VolkanÇıdam: "Memory Politics in Crisis: What is Going on in Germany? (II)"
at https://www.critup.net/translations/memory-politics-in-crisis-what-is-going-on-in-germany-ii/
New on our blog:
"Can Memory Europeanize Us? The #EU Memory Framework and Contested Memories of the #YugoslavWars in Contemporary #Serbia"
Nikola Gajić (#LeibnizIOS) on the discrepancy between the 🇷🇸 official memory politics & 🇪🇺 commemorative practices.
➡️ https://ostblog.hypotheses.org/6520 #Srebrenica #MemoryFramework #MemoryPolitics
Commentary on the article "Who Owns Alexander the Great? It's a Diplomatic Minefield" by "The New York Times" correspondent Andrew Higgins with English subtitles.
In short, historiography of North Macedonia doesn't jibe with the historical records.
#Macedonia #NorthMacedonia
#Greece #History #Bulgaria #MemoryPolitics #Skopje2014
The video with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/live/_MLYwfIvxB0
Find out how state-society relations inform local memory practices and how the politicisation of heritage shapes selected representations of the past and drives both homogenisation and diversity of Chinese memory practices in the present. #China #MemoryPolitics #HeritageStudies #CulturalModernisation
Favoured by Putin himself, Stolypin got his statue in Moscow already in 2012 (though the statue was not placed on Lubyanka square to fill the empty spot where the toppled Dzerzhinsky used to stand, as Nikita Mikhalkov had proposed as early as 2001 - as I outline in the chapter linked below).
Attempts to return Dzerzhinsky into the public domain fit into a larger trend of normalising - or even glorifying - state repression. Putin's long-standing promotion of Stolypin carries similar connotations (here's Stolypin spotted by FBK on Putin's yacht in one of their most recent investigations).
The political usage of the memory of Nevsky, by the way, is not without its issues either as it has been used by a tandem of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote a conservative idea of a 'Russian world' (see also the chapter linked here)
The idea of returning Dzerzhinsky to Lubyanka Sqaure was floated on various occassion (and for various purposes). In 2021, the city of Moscow even organised an online vote for residents to decide whose statue should be placed on the square in front of the FSB building: returning the toppled Dzerzhinsky, or erecting a statue of Aleksandr Nevsky instead. But the vote was cancelled mid-way.
Returning the statue of Dzerzhinsky has been suggested many times, which makes its actual unveiling in Moscow all the more worrying.
MT: 'Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has unveiled a statue of Soviet secret police chief Felix Dzerzhinsky in front of its Moscow HQ.
The statue of Dzerzhinsky, an architect of the Red Terror, is a replica of the statue that once stood in front of the KGB headquarters.'
The memory of Alexander Nevsky has been used for quite some time now to promote the idea of (Orthodox) Russia being the last remaining bastion of "Christian civilisation". The Russian Orthodox Church has been actively promoting Nevsky's memory, but also Russia's MFA. I'm including a link here to a chapter - freely accessible - on the political uses of Nevsky in Russian political and media discourse.
#Russia #Ukraine #MemoryPolitics #commodon @politicalscience
The entire concept and visual symbolism of this video Shaman released a few months ago revolves around Alexander Nevsky (i.e., to how the 1242 Battle on the Ice was cinematically portrayed). Heavy on the religious symbolism, it resonates with the claim "Russian civilisation" is under threat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLztDVkV6G0
#Russia #Ukraine #MemoryPolitics #commodon @politicalscience
Meanwhile, Russian pro-war 'patriotic' singer Shaman released a new video yesterday, recorded on Red Square, that has attracted quite some attention for its fascist-like aesthetics (the leather, the poses etc). I decided to catch up with his other recent productions and what did I find: more Alexander Nevsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXreSAXf1V8
@politicalscience
#Russia #Ukraine #MemoryPolitics @commodon
A few days ago, Francis Scarr (BBC Monitoring) shared a clip where a historical parallel was drawn with 13th-c Alexander Nevsky to justify Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine on Russian state TV (follow the link for the video).
While this may seem outlandish, there actually is a long history of making these parallels, in part pushed by the Russian state and in part by the Russian Orthodox Church.
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1648357418907189254
#Russia #Ukraine #MemoryPolitics #commodon @politicalscience
Remembering how polarising Slovak independence was in 1991, pitting what was then still a nationalist minority in bulwarks like the northwest against progressive / liberal urbanites, it is extremely weird to see PS and SaS voters among the most favourable here, and SMER the least
https://twitter.com/SlovakiaElects/status/1609639433699004418 #Slovakia #MemoryPolitics
Special Issue: "Weaponizing History in the Russo-Ukrainian War," Journal of Applied History Volume 4 Issue 1-2 (2022) https://brill.com/abstract/journals/joah/4/1-2/joah.4.issue-1-2.xml HT coeditor @lienverpoest
#OpenAccess #RussianInvasionOfUkraine #History #MemoryPolitics #Historiography #IdentityPolitics #Colonialism #Decolonization
@histodons
I am also interested in memory politics in Eastern Europe and published on the subject as well, most recently:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/088832542198941
#EasternEurope #memorypolitics
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