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FREDERICO, GRAZIELE MEIRE. "NARRAR O ALZHEIMER BRASILEIRO SOBRE A DITADURA MILITAR: LITERATURA E MEMÓRIA NA OBRA DE B.KUCINSKI." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/923103.
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The novel K., by Bernardo Kucinski, released in 2011, was one of the most read, translated, and studied literary text on the theme of the representation of the Brazilian military dictatorship in the last decade. It was also used as an annexed document in the final report of the National Truth Commission. Based on it, the author hypothesizes that Brazil suffers from a “Alzheimer’s disease” because it has not yet come to terms with its recent authoritarian past and persists in excluding memories of crimes committed by State terrorism in the sphere of public. Starting from the autobiographical story of the forced disappearance of his sister, Ana Rosa Kucinski Silva on April 22, 1974, the author fictionalizes a reflection on the two decades of State repression and terrorism and, over the last ten years, develops a galaxy of narratives to intervene in the representation or absence of the theme in public debates. In this context, I tried to extend this metaphor of Alzheimer's disease to analyse the memories that Bernardo Kucinski built about the civil-military dictatorship in his literature.
I pointed out the current situation regarding the dispute of collective memories and a huge exclusion that hangs over public memory. The regime's secret service archives have not yet been made available to society. We still do not have access to information about the crimes carried out by the State at the time. In the articulation for re-democratization, the military managed to maintain the prerogative that they would not be judged for the crimes committed. Despite the insistent struggle of survivors and relatives of the politically disappeared, amnesty/amnesia continues to operate in contemporary. Trying to situate where Kucinski’s works fit in the Brazilian literary production on the subject, I point out an important demarcation: his works present a galaxy of voices and narratives about the civil-military dictatorship, but in his fiction, there is a protagonism of the relatives of the political disappeared, it is largely from this place that its narrators and protagonists speak.
Looking at the decade-long literary project, from the six novels, three, K., Os visitantes and Júlia: no scampos conflagrados do Senhor are centered on the history and memory of repression, Nova ordem focuses its narrative on a radical authoritarianism implemented in Brazil from of the year 2019. The other two novels, Alice: não mais que repente and Pretérito imperfeito also bring important legacies of the dictatorial period, but in my view they allow a reading of two other pathological symptoms that have been exacerbating problems of the nation also discussed in the literature of B. Kucinski: the structural violence of patriarchate and racism in our society.
In the last chapter, I focused my analysis on B. Kucinski's representations of resistance and opposition to authoritarianism. Starting from Fernando Reati's reflection on the beauty and utopia of the emblem "never again", I point to the important discussion that Kucinski's literary project claims for the treatment of memories about the crimes of the Brazilian military dictatorship in the public sphere, as an essential understanding from the past to the possibility of projecting a less excluding future. On the other hand, as stated by Heloísa Starling, the works of Bernardo Kucinski are not just a representation of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship but are narratives for us to learn to be together, to fight against tyranny. I analyse the various alliances created for this struggle, especially the innovative role given to the association of the families of the disappeared and the representation of the shared world of hopes and struggle for organized militancy in dictatorial times.
I conclude by understanding the decade of literature produced by the intellectual Bernardo Kucinski as an intervention in the public sphere, showing how essential it is to break with this excluding memory. We can no longer maintain this amnesia/amnesty, at the cost of this “national Alzheimer's disease” leading us to fatal apathy, because as the German psychiatrist showed over a hundred years ago, without memory there is no lucidity. The new topia – utopia – built by Kucinski’s characters and the alliance formed by them, does not push us towards a passive apocalyptic scenario, but opens wide our pathological heritage in insisting on the exclusion of the crimes of this recent past in the discussions about the country and the injustice about it, which the democratic return was articulated. Not even in the Nova ordem everything was put under the control of the dictators, they never managed to capture dreams and, following the advice of Ailton Krenak, I think B. Kucinski also perceives in dreams this breathing practice, this parachute to postpone the end of the world, or deadly apathy.
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Muller, Felipe, and Federico Bermejo. "The Historical and Lived Sources of Collective Memory." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101565.
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The aim of the present paper is to study the role that lived and historical memories havein the conformation of collective memory through the participant’s appraisals in the recent past of Argentina. These memories operate as sources that nurture collective memory. Lived memories are related to live experiences, while historical memories are related to indirect sources that inform about the past. 60 participants, divided in two groups (above and below 46 years of age) appraised the present and recent past, based on lived and historical memories. Results show that lived or autobiographical and historical memories contribute differently to collective memory.Se estudia el rol que desempeñan los recuerdos vividos e históricos en la memoria colectiva por medio de la valoración del pasado reciente argentino. Estos recuerdos operan como fuentes que nutren a la memoria colectiva. Los recuerdos vividos están vinculados a la experiencia directa, mientras que los recuerdos históricos a las fuentes indirectas que informan sobre el pasado. 60 participantes, divididos en dos grupos (mayores y menores de 46 años), realizaron valoraciones sobre el presente y el pasado reciente, en base a recuerdos vividos y en recuerdos históricos. Los resultados muestran que los recuerdos vividos o autobiográficos tienen una incidencia distinta en las valoraciones que los recuerdos históricos.
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Monnin, Quintin M. "Collective Memory: American Perception as a Result of World War II Memorabilia Collecting." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1587402522418034.
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Dunn, Stephanie. "Collecting Memories: Rachel Whiteread’s House and Memory in Contemporary London." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19348.
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Contemporary British artist Rachel Whiteread is celebrated for her ability to cast everyday objects that force the viewer to think about the spaces they typically ignore. House, one of Whiteread’s most well known and written about sculptures was created in 1993. House considered issues of memory in contemporary London, specifically parts of London that are experiencing drastic amounts of change. Current scholars understand House as a memorial, and while this thesis agrees with this interpretation, it also considers House as part of a group memorial with Whiteread’s other sculptural works created before and in 1993. This thesis begins by contextualizing Whiteread’s artistic practice in current scholarship and argues for further evaluation of House. After a thorough examination of the creation, destruction, and reception of House, I analyze current scholarship on the sculpture and consider the similar themes through Whiteread’s early work to prove their ability to act as a group memorial.
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Klein, Olivier, Sabrina Pierucci, Cynthie Marchal, Alejandra Alarcón-Henríquez, and Laurent Licata. "“It had to happen”: Individual memory biases and collective memory." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/100590.
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For the purpose of the study we varied the outcome of a sequence of ambiguous behaviors performed by an imaginary individual during World War II. Compared to a control condition where no outcome was presented, this person either ended up saving Jews (heroic behavior) or denouncing Jews to the Gestapo (cowardly behavior). After one week, behavioral antecedents that were consistent with the outcome were likely to be recalled and communicated. Results suggest a tendency towards forming extreme impressions of the target, depending on the outcome. These extreme impressions in turn guide the recall and evaluations of predictability, and also impact on communication about these episodes and thereby on the formation of collective memory.Para el estudio se varió el resultado final de una secuencia ambigua de conductas realizadas por una persona ficticia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Después de la secuencia ambigua de acciones, en una condición control no se producía ninguna consecuencia, en otra condición de heroísmo la persona salvaba la vida de Judíos y en otra condición de cobardía los denunciaba a la Gestapo. Los antecedentes congruentes con la conducta final se recordaron y comunicaron más una semana después. Esto sugiere una tendencia a inferir juicios extremos a partir de la conducta final del personaje, que a su vez influyen en el recuerdo en relación al nivel de previsibilidad de la conducta del personaje, e influyen en la comunicación sobre el hecho y la memoria colectiva.
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Robson, Claire Elizabeth. "Collective memoir as public pedagogy : a study of narrative, writing, and memory." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/34631.
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This dissertation investigates the ways in which literary practices can be used to generate learning. It is guided by the following research questions:
• How can the processes of writing memoir change our perceptions of the past?
• How can these writing processes be theorized and understood as educational events?
Data are provided by two research groups, one composed of seven older lesbians and one composed of 26 older LGBT individuals known as the Queer Imaging & Riting Kollective for Elders (Quirk-e), an arts-engaged community group with whom I have worked for the last five years. In the first case, practices of close reading, memoir writing, and discussion were conducted, and discussions were digitally recorded and transcribed. In the second, data are provided by the artwork produced by the members of Quirk-e and by my reflections upon my practices as their writer-in-residence. Data are also provided by my own creative compositions, which serve as interludes between the standalone papers that comprise the body of the dissertation. Data are analyzed through critical and literary interpretations, autobiographical and narrative methods, and conceptual inquiry. I conclude that unpacking memories and life experiences by writing memoir can lead to more nuanced understandings of the self and the culture in which it has developed. I also conclude that such learning can be assisted by paying close attention to specific memories, using processes of association, and then by considering the emergent genres and structures that frame the work as it is revised. Finally, I consider my practices as a public pedagogue in the light of these reflections, to begin to consider how teaching might be usefully considered as a form of artistic composition, with its own emergent genres.
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Ang, Bing-hun Fanny. "Mapping memories a methodology to quantify the "collective memory" of places through the process of way-finding in Central /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42189019.
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Song, Young-Hee. "SOURCES OF KOREANS' COLLECTIVE MEMORIES: GENERATION AND CULTURE." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1218662512.
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洪彬芬 and Bing-hun Fanny Ang. "Mapping memories: a methodology to quantify the "collective memory" of places through the process of way-findingin Central." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42189019.
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de, Oliveira Flavio. "Runaway memories : a collection of short stories exploring various styles of memory-based narratives." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2016. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/3796/.
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It is arguable that memories are one of the most important aspects of the human mind. It is through memory that we are able to learn, to make decisions, to evolve. Michael Jacob Kahana (2012) suggests that “our memories define who we are, and our ability to learn and make new memories determines who we become” (Kahana, 2012, p.13). It has also been a topic by several literary authors in their works, such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Antonio Lobo Antunes. This thesis approaches the subject of memories by researching theories and notions regarding the functions of memory and how memories are processed. It embodies the combination of research and practice, where the research into theoretical materials is used in order to develop a collection of short stories. This thesis has the main objective of approaching the practical side of creative writing with thorough background research in theories of human memory, linking all the short stories through the overarching theme of memory and the creative practice, delivering a consistent and unique approach to the field of Creative Writing. That is, these short stories are interpretations of the research through creative endeavour, and aim to explore these theories through the developed narratives. With each story, there is an accompanying critical commentary which describes the creative process and the theoretical approaches that influenced each of them, as well as the literary influences that informed the development of each story.
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Liu, Xiaoming. "A "theatre" of the collective memory." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89608.
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A "THEATRE" OF THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY.
A "HOUSE" OF THE DEAD.
A "MUSEUM" OF THE HISTORY.
A "GALLERY" OF FUNERARY ART.
AN "OPERA" OF THE FAMILY STORY.
A "CARNIVAL" OF THE FUNERAL--THE GRAND FINALE.Master of Architecture
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Kauffman, Karen C. "Re-Inventing German Collective Memory: The Debate over the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/557.
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Thesis advisor: Peter H. WeilerComing to terms with memory of the Nazi past has been a long and challenging task for the German nation. An important part of this process was the debate over building a national Holocaust memorial in Berlin, called the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe. The debate began in 1989 and has arguably not yet ended. Occurring primarily in periodicals, political speeches and official colloquiums, the Denkmalstreit (memorial debate) was largely about German intellectuals developing a system of dealing with the Holocaust while redefining German identity in their own eyes and those of the world. The famous Historikerstreit (historians debate) of the 1980s raised the issues of the burden of shame and guilt on modern Germans, concern over forgetting the Holocaust, the uniqueness of the Holocaust and Jewish persecution, and the need to develop a new national identity. The Denkmalstreit dealt with these issues through the questions of whether to build a memorial and what it would mean, whether the memorial would be for descendents of perpetrators or victims, and what form the memorial should take. After closely examining these issues and the consensus the German intellectuals, politicians and artists reached in order to finally dedicate the memorial in 2005, I argue that Germany has done an exemplary job of coming to terms with the crimes of its past
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: History Honors Program
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Strenga, Gustavs. "Remembering the dead : collective memoria in late medieval Livonia." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8672.
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Memoria or the medieval remembrance of the dead is integral to our understanding of medieval society. However, memoria was not just a liturgical practice intended to lessen purgatorial suffering, but a ‘total social phenomenon’ that impacted every aspect of life. This thesis follows in the tradition of the German Memoriaforschung school, especially the concepts formulated by Otto Gerhard Oexle. These concepts are here particularly applied to memoria as a group phenomenon. A particular contention of this thesis is that memoria was socially constitutive and thus not only a vehicle to remember the past but a means to create and maintain social groups. Therefore this thesis takes the form of series of case studies drawn from late medieval Livonia (present day Latvia and Estonia) c. 1400-1525. The groups chosen –associations of the urban elites, non-elite brotherhoods, the clergy and the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order – reflect both the strength of the surviving source material and the particular characteristics of the region. Each case study is considered through a series of research questions. How did memoria constitute and shape social relationships? How did memoria create and sustain groups? In what ways was memoria used for political purposes? How did groups use their past to maintain their identities in the present? What role did charity and the poor play? In addition to exploring the above themes, this thesis particularly argues that memoria was used to legitimize power by urban governments and by the Teutonic Order and the archbishops of Riga. This thesis also shows that memoria created the cultural memory of the Teutonic Order and the Rigan church. Memoria sustained the identities of urban elite groups and was essential to creating relationships between the urban elites and non-elite groups.
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Rottenbacher, Jan Marc, and Agustín Espinosa. "National identity and historic collective memory in Peru. An exploratory study." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/99990.
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We analyze the memory of collective events in Peru and its relationship with Peruviannational identity in a middle-class sample from Lima (N = 81). Peruvian collective self- esteem and two dimensions of the Peruvian self-concept (Peruvians as proactive-capable and negative image of Peruvians) are related moderately to valence of historic characters remembered. Nevertheless, valence of remembered historical events was not associated to Peruvian national identity. Results also suggest that characters and events from 20th century comprise the majority of remembered instances, and 20th century instances are worse evaluated than characters and events from previous periods of Peruvian history. Results confirm a recency bias and a tendency to make more positive meaning attributions to distant eventsand characters than those made to more recent events.Se analizan las relaciones entre la memoria de hechos colectivos en el Perú y la constitución de la identidad nacional peruana en 81 habitantes de clase media de Lima Metropolitana. La valencia positiva del recuerdo colectivo de personajes históricos, más no el de eventos, se asocia moderadamente a la autoestima colectiva y a dos dimensiones del autoconcepto colectivo (peruanos proactivos-capaces e imagen negativa de los peruanos). Se encontró que personajes y eventos del siglo XX conforman el porcentaje mayoritario de recuerdos colectivos, y en promedio personajes y eventos del siglo XX son peor evaluados que personajes y eventos previos a este siglo. Esto confirma la presencia de un sesgo de recencia y la tendencia a atribuir un significado más positivo a personajes y hechos que se recuerdan a largo plazo en contraposición con aquellos más recientes.
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HOZE, BERTRAND Wahl Alfred. "MEMOIRES D'UNE TERRE PROMISE. LES MEMOIRES FRANCAISES DE L'ALSACE-LORRAINE DE 1870 A NOS JOURS. ENTRE MEMOIRE ET OUBLI /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2000. ftp://ftp.scd.univ-metz.fr/pub/Theses/2000/Hoze.Bertrand.LMZ0006.pdf.
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Iwanami, Atsuko. "Memoria et oblivio : die Entwicklung des Begriffs memoria in Bischofs-und Herrscherurkunden des Hochmittelalters /." Göttingen : Duncker & Humblot, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392764406.
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Métallier, Colins Auque Françoise. "Résiliation du bail commercial et procédure collective du preneur." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2006. http://edoctorale74.univ-lille2.fr/fileadmin/master_recherche/T_l_chargement/memoires/affaires/metallierc06.pdf.
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Ysselstein, Geraldine Marion. "East German material culture : building a collective memory." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31499.
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One way of remembering life as it was lived in the German Democratic Republic
(GDR) is through everyday objects. This thesis looks at the Alltagsgeschichte (history of
everyday life) to understand the interaction between the East German state and society
through material culture. Museums have collected East German material objects and
popular culture with the help of the internet and television has assisted to both preserve
and re-imagine the memories of the past.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the cultural and economic significance of
material culture of the German Democratic Republic both before and after 1989. It seeks
to understand, how and why ex-GDR consumer objects have emerged as new historical
markers of the socialist experience and collective memory. Additionally, the thesis
explores whether East Germany, a socialist country that was despised for its poor quality
and quantity of consumer goods can be remembered after the fall of the Berlin Wall as a
genuine consumer society.
While the GDR no longer exists, its legacy is still very much alive in the renewal
and revival of a number of significant material objects. It has even manifested itself into
what is called Ostalgie, nostalgia for all things from the former GDR, including such
items as the Trabant (an East German car), the Ampelmannchen (traffic light figure) and
Florena body lotion.Arts, Faculty of
Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of
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Kroeker, Don. "Manitoba Mennonite archives and Canadian Mennonite collective memory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ56132.pdf.
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Daley, Shawn T. "Centralia, Collective Memory, and the Tragedy of 1919." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2576.
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The Centralia Tragedy of 1919 has been represented in numerous works over the course of the past 100 years. The vast majority of them concern the events of the day of the Tragedy, November 11, 1919, and whether a small group of Wobblies – members of a union group known as the International Workers of the World (I.W.W.) – opened fire on a group of parading American Legionnaires. This particular element, whether or not the Wobblies opened fire on the Legionnaires or the Legionnaires actually charged the hall where the Wobblies were staying, has generated significant concern in academic and popular literature since it occurred.
This study is less concerned with the events of the day itself, accepting that the full truth might not ever be known. It is instead focused on the collective remembering of that event, and how those recollections splintered into several strands of memory in the nearly 96 years since. It categorizes those strands into three specific ones: the official memory framework, the Labor countermemory framework, and the academic framework.
Each strand developed from early in the Tragedy’s history, starting with authors and adherents in the days after a 1920 trial. That trial, which declared the Wobblies guilty of the deaths of four Legionnaires while not holding anyone accountable for the lynching of Wobbly Wesley Everest, generated ample discord among Centralians. This lack of closure prompted the various aggrieved parties to produce books, pamphlets, speeches, protests and even a famed statue in Centralia's main park. Over time, the various perspectives congealed into the distinct strands of memory, which often flared up in conflict between 1930 and the present day.
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Sorokina, Anastasia. "WHEN DO MEMORIES GO AWAY? L1 ATTRITION EFFECT ON BILINGUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/593831.
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Applied LinguisticsPh.D.
Language plays a crucial role in remembering, storing, maintaining, accessing, and sharing of memories. This evidence comes from the disciplines of psychoanalysis (Javier et al., 1993; Schwaneberg, 2010), developmental psychology (Fivush, 2011; Nelson, 2004), and bilingual memory (Larsen et al., 2002; Marian & Neisser, 2000). Some of the most telling examples come from bilingual psychotherapy where therapist switch to the patient’s native language in order to access childhood memories (e.g., Aragno & Schlacher, 1996). The loss of language, therefore, may have a detrimental effect on memory storage and recall. Until now, however, this possibility has not been tested. The purpose of the present study is to address this gap by investigating autobiographical memory in speakers undergoing L1 attrition. The study is grounded in the dual-coding theoretical framework (Paivio, 1971; 2014). According to the dual-coding theory, memories that are encoded with multiple memory traces (audio, visual, etc.) are remembered better and a weakening of a memory trace due to its inactivation might lead to forgetting. Therefore, memories that were encoded in a language that is no longer available might show signs of deterioration. Twelve non-attriters ages 18-28 (M=22.08; SD=3.73), 13 moderate attriters ages 18-33 (M=24.29; SD=5.43), and 10 advanced attriters ages 18-30 (M=23.1; SD=3.7) shared autobiographical memories with the help of free recall and cued-recall procedures (Marian & Neisser, 2000; Schrauf & Rubin, 2000). The pool of 420 free recall memories were analyzed for amount of detail (Levine et al., 2002) and the set of 1,988 cued recall memories were analyzed for phenomenological properties of vividness, significance, emotionality, and confidence in the event (Schrauf, 2009; Schrauf & Rubin, 2004). The results revealed that moderate attriters who had vague L1 Russian memories recalled memories with lower confidence rating in comparison to non-attriters, which suggests a negative L1 attrition effect on bilingual autobiographical memory. However, the advanced attriters were able to recall vivid and detailed L1 Russian memories. The aforementioned finding did not support the study’s hypothesis that memories might be forgotten if the language of encoding is no longer available. This can be explained by the following observation. Advanced attriters recalled their L1 Russian memories very frequently which insured a preservation of these memories. This rehearsing of L1 memories in their dominant L2 English also caused re-encoding of these memories into the dominant language. This was observed qualitatively (participants commenting on how L1 Russian memories were coming to them with L2 English words) and quantitatively (L1 Russian memories were reported to be accompanied by L2 English words). These findings have several theoretical implications for the discipline of bilingualism. L1 attrition may have a negative effect on bilingual autobiographical memory, at least as far as the phenomenological properties are concerned. However, this negative effect can be reversed by frequent rehearsing of memories that were encoded in an attrited language. Rehearsing may lead to re-encoding of L1 memories into the L2 which suggests that memories may be malleable. This demonstrates flexibility of bilingual mind and how it can adjust to L1 attrition.
Temple University--Theses
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Paul, John Michael. "Collective and collected memories the construction and maintenance of Chickasaw identity /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2003. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Paul.pdf.
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Aguilar, Fernández Paloma. "Memoria y olvido de la guerra civil española /." Madrid : Alianza ed, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370773009.
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Cuartas, Pablo. "Le temps des objets : mémoire collective, entourages matériels et imaginaires littéraires : essai de phénoménologie sociale." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCB220/document.
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Matière et mémoire constituent deux programmes de recherche que les sciences humaines entament souvent séparément : d'une part, l'observation empirique de la présence matérielle des objets ; de l'autre, la réflexion spéculative sur l'expérience immatérielle de la mémoire. Nonobstant, la sociologie de la mémoire permet et exige assumer sur ce point une perspective conjonctive: considérer la mémoire comme pratique sociale, inscrite dans les entourages matériels immédiats. Suivant ce principe conjonctif, la révision de quelques pratiques de mémoire nous a permis d'identifier la présence constante d'objets matériels, comme si les formes "naturelle" et "artificielle" de la mémoire étaient indissociables du statut matériel de l'objet. Une relation objectale à la mémoire et un rapport mémoriel à l'objet apparaît donc comme un invariant sur lequel nous nous efforçons de présenter quelques manifestations historiques : à Rome, aux temps de la République et le Haute-Empire, des expériences dissemblables comme le culte aux morts ou l'art rhétorique mettent en jeu, incessamment, objets et mémoire ; dans la Renaissance, la prolifération des studioli, cabinets de curiosités et Wunderkammern ne font que constater la consécration, dans les espaces du savoir et du pouvoir, d'une grande fascination pour les objets du passé ; au XIXe siècle, enfin, époque apparemment dominée par la production industrialisée, le fétichisme de l'antique renouvelle l'intérêt que les objets investis de mémoire éveillent. D'où la présence également persistante d'objets de mémoire dans la littérature: à ces moments historiques correspond une production littéraire considérable qui se propose de décrire l'importance des choses qui suscitent une expériences sensible du passé. L’œuvre de quelques poètes latins, les réflexions de Goethe sur le collectionnisme, les idées de Rilke à propos des "objets vécus" ou la Recherche proustienne sont des variations sur un thème : le temps des objets, le temps que les objets contiennentMatter and memory are two research programs that Human Sciences usually undertaken in a separately way. On the one hand the empirical observation on material presence of the objects; on the other hand the speculative thought on the immaterial experience of the memory. However, sociology of memory allows and requires to assume on this subject a conjunctive outlook: to consider the memory as a social practice included in the nearby material environments. Following this conjunctive principle, the review of some memory practices has allowed us to identify the continuous presence of material objects as if the "natural" and "artificial" ways of memory were indissociable from the material status of the object. An object-based relationship with memory and a memorial relationship with objects then appears as a constant from which we try to present some historical variations: in Rome, at times of the Republic and during the Early Empire, different experiences as the cult of the dead and the art of rhetoric, incessantly implies object and memory; at Renaissance the proliferation of studioli, cabinets de curiosités and Wunderkammern can only confirm the enshrining of a great fascination in the spaces of power and knowledge for the objects from the past ; in 19th century, apparently ruled by the industrial production, the fetishism for ancient objects renews once again the interest that objects vested of memory arouses. For this reason the equally persistent presence of the objects of memory in literature: in each of those historical moments we aware that a considerable literary production attempts to describe the importance of things that evoke an experience of past. The works of some Latin poets, the Goethe's reflections on collectionism, the ideas of Rilke on the subject of "lived objects", and Proust's own Search, are literary variations on the same topic : the time of things, the time contained in things
Materia y memoria constituyen dos programas de investigación que las ciencias humanas suelen emprender por separado: por una parte, la observación empírica sobre la presencia material de los objetos; por otra, la reflexión especulativa sobre la experiencia inmaterial de la memoria. No obstante, la sociología de la memoria permite y exige asumir a este respecto una perspectiva conjuntiva: considerar la memoria como práctica social, inscrita en los entornos materiales inmediatos. Siguiendo este principio conjuntivo, la revisión de algunas prácticas de memoria nos ha permitido identificar la presencia constante de objetos materiales, como si las formas "natural" y "artificial" de la memoria fueran indisociables del estatuto material del objeto. Una relación objetual con la memoria y una relación memorial con los objetos aparece entonces como una constante de la que tratamos de presentar algunas variaciones históricas: en Roma, en tiempos de la República y el Alto Imperio, experiencias disímiles como el culto a los muertos y el arte de la retórica ponen en juego, incesantemente, objeto y memoria; en el Renacimiento, la proliferación de studioli, de cabinets de curiosités y de Wunderkammern no hacen más que constatar la consagración, en los espacios de poder y de saber, de una gran fascinación por los objetos del pasado; en el siglo XIX, aparentemente dominado por la producción industrial, el fetichismo de lo antiguo renueva una vez más el interés que despiertan los objetos investidos de memoria. De ahí la presencia igualmente persistente de objetos de memoria en la literatura: en cada uno de esos momentos históricos constatamos que una producción literaria considerable se propone describir la importancia de las cosas que despiertan una experiencia del pasado. La obra de algunos poetas latinos, las reflexiones sobre el coleccionismo de Goethe, las ideas de Rilke a propósito de los "objetos vividos", la propia búsqueda de Proust, son variaciones literarias sobre el mismo tema: el tiempo de las cosas, el tiempo que las cosas contienen
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Rosen-Prest, Viviane. "L'historiographie des huguenots en prusse au temps des lumieres. Entre memoire, histoire et legende : j.p. erman et p.c.f. reclam, memoires pour servir a l'histoire des refugies francois dans les etats du roi (1782-1799)." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999STR20063.
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La these traite des memoires des refugies de erman et reclam, histoire des refugies protestants francais en brandebourg-prusse ecrite une centaine d'annees apres la revocation de l'edit de nantes et la proclamation de l'edit de potsdam par le grand electeur frederic guillaume (1685). L'interet de l'ouvrage, celebre chez tous ceux qui travaillent sur le refuge huguenot en prusse, est d'avoir ete ecrit a la fin de l'aufklarung, et peu avant la suppression des privileges de la colonie (1809). Son originalite principale est d'etre essentiellement base sur la collecte de donnees inedites (archives, souvenirs de descendants). Le projet "patriotique" des auteurs est de montrer l'apport des refugies au demarrage economique de la prusse et leur influence sur les moeurs, et d'exprimer leur reconnaissance au grand electeur et a travers lui aux souverains de prusse, en particulier a frederic le grand. Historiens "militants", ils veulent ranimer chez les huguenots de leur temps les anciennes vertus et renforcer chez leurs contemporains l'image positive de la colonie a l'heure de son declin. Redige en langue francaise par deux pasteurs francophones de la colonie qui se sentent totalement prussiens, l'ouvrage met en evidence les questions d'acculturation et d'identite chez les descendants des refugies francais. L'objectif de la recherche est de faire apparaitre a la fois le tribut paye par l'ouvrage a son temps et son originalite. La recherche s'articule autour de deux axes : departager ce qui releve de la "memoire" (fixation d'une memoire collective), de la "legende historique" (creation d'une typologie) ou d'une demarche proprement historique comportant des aspects originaux ; degager la specificite d'un ouvrage d'histoire considerant le passe a travers les valeurs des lumieres. La derniere partie s'interesse a l'edition et a la diffusion de l'ouvrage pour tenter d'etablir quelle fut son influence.
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Selway, David. "Collective memory in the mining communities of South Wales." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/70562/.
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Coal mining communities across Britain have often been argued to have possessed powerful collective memories of past struggles, though such memories have, as yet, been little studied. This thesis is a study of the collective memory of the interwar years within the mining communities of south Wales, and explores the ways in which the great strikes and lockouts, underground accidents, the interwar depression, and clashes with police and strike-breakers were remembered by the men and women of the coalfield. Using nearly 200 oral history interviews that were recorded in the 1970s, alongside newspapers, political and trade union records, novels and other sources, this study examines collective remembering as a reciprocal interaction between the public representations of the past, and the memories and attitudes of individuals. It argues, firstly, that individual memory did not just reflect or rework discourses about past events, but was itself an important agent in shaping and creating collective understandings of that history. Those individual memories remained integral to those collective memories, rather than being subsumed within or subjugated by them. It also suggests that the relationship between individual and collective memory should not be seen as necessarily oppositional, nor as between two distinct and separate types of memory, but rather as a spectrum. Secondly, it argues that the experiences of the inter-war years were understood and remembered within a number of distinct temporalities. Strikes and protests were often recalled within a linear framework, accidents underground were understood as a cyclical experience, whilst the depression was seen as a discontinuous rupture. It thus argues that conceptions of historical time were not singular, but plural and overlapping, and were themselves shaped and transformed by historical events. It thus traces understandings of time and how these changed at a popular level, rather than an intellectual or cultural one, through examining the memories, thoughts and attitudes of the men and women of the south Wales coalfield.
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Levine, Joseph H. (Joseph Henry) 1979. "Friction effects on collective mechanisms of short term memory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/27048.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 61).
Short term memory is often correlated with persistent changes in neuronal firing rates in response to transient inputs. This thesis models the persistent maintenance of an analog eye position signal by an oculomotor neural integrator receiving transient eye movement commands. We show analytically how using neurons with multiple bistable dendritic compartments can enhance the robustness of eye fixations to mistuning while reproducing the observed linear relationship between neuronal firing rates and eye position. We calculate the network dynamics and tolerance to mistuning. Finally, we demonstrate that dendritic bistability can improve robustness in a biophysically realistic network of conductance based neurons.
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Ma, Leo F. H. "Preserving Our Collective Memory: The Case of HK Magazine." Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A16647.
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Founded in 1991, HK Magazine was one of the major English-language publications on local affairs, social issues and entertainment listings published weekly in Hong Kong for a quarter of a century. Apart from providing local entertainment information, it also witnessed the rapid social and political changes of Hong Kong when Britain handed over sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997. In July 2013, HK Magazine was sold to the South China Morning Post (SCMP) Group which was subsequently purchased by Alibaba Group in December 2015. However, the SCMP Group announced on 28 September 2016 that the magazine's final issue would be released on 7 October 2016. The closure of the magazine was viewed by many as the loss of a “fun, independent and free-thinking' publication. In response to the huge reaction from the community, the SCMP Group agreed that the content of HK Magazine would be migrated to the SCMP website before the HK Magazine website was removed. It was however revealed that the SCMP website did not preserve the full archive of HK Magazine as promised. A public appeal was launched to help preserve the collective memory of Hong Kong by archiving the back issues of the magazine. Apart from reviewing the discussion arising from the close down of HK Magazine, this paper also addresses the critical role of the library in long term preserving HK Magazine on one hand and providing access to its digital content on the other.
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Markovitz, Jonathan Paul. "Legacies of lynching : collective memory, metaphor, and racial formation /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9935487.
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Sims, Laura Jeanne Reid Donald M. "Contested terrain Harki collective memory in France 2003-2008 /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2185.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.
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Davis, Patricia G. "Ripping the veil collective memory and Black southern identity /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3369239.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 15, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Hammond, Ralph. "The construction of physiotherapists' identities through collective memory work." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2013. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a006339e-c660-4b59-a5f0-07efa1e962a2.
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This thesis examines the challenges for professional practice, socialisation, and identity in Physiotherapy. The government‘s modernisation agenda and society‘s increasing expectations of healthcare require physiotherapists to update their role, location, and identity. Physiotherapy has viewed identity as a fixed entity emphasizing coherence, continuity and distinctiveness. Socialisation has required the acquisition of a professional identity as one among several necessary assets‘ for novices. Yet how do physiotherapists come to be the physiotherapists they are?
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Ng, Kuok Man. "The collective memories of Macau : from transportation and construction stamps (1949-1999)." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2585604.
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Kang, Jeffrey. "Memoir: A Collection of Short Stories." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/261.
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Winder, Ransom Kershaw. "The influence of collective working memory strategies on agent teams." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7292.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Computer Science. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Molina, Andres Antonio Haye. "Collective memory : an investigation into its cognitive and group processes." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289656.
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Petersen, Judith. "The Holocaust on British television : shaping collective memory since 1945." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442798.
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Short, Mark Graham. "From one generation to another : the Passover as collective memory." Thesis, Durham University, 2002. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1081/.
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This thesis seeks to provide a fresh perspective on the nature and function of the Old Testament Passover by considering how it shaped and transmitted Israel's collective memory. In this context, special attention is paid to the work of Jan Assman, who argues that the Ancient Near East in general and Israel in particular underwent a transition from ritual repetition to textual interpretation as the primary medium of cultural memory. This model is tested by a detailed exegesis of the Passover texts in Exodus 12-13, Deuteronomy 16 and 2 Chronicles 30 and 35. It is concluded that there is not a general tendency for text to displace rite so far as the Old Testament Passover is concerned. A better framework for understanding the distinctive contribution of each text is the relationship between ritual resemblance (mimesis) and oral or written explanation (catechesis). The thesis explores how these two features of Passover observance interact to shape Israel's memory of her past and her communal identity in the present. Exodus 12-13 portray Israel as a people belonging to YHWH by virtue of the deliverance from Egypt, Deuteronomy 16 recalls the memory of the departure from Egypt as a motivation for Torah observance and Chronicles portrays Israel as an organised cultic community gathered at the temple to petition YHWH to bring an end to national captivity. If there is a trajectory in Old Testament Passover texts it is found in the textualisation of catechesis. In the first instance the Passover's significance is explained alongside the rite itself. However, over time a developing body of authoritative texts provides an everwidening canonical context within which the Passover can be practised and interpreted. The thesis concludes by considering how its findings provide the basis for exploring other Old and New Testament themes.
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Pomson, Alex Daniel Martin. "Critical history and collective memory : a problem with Jewish education." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019146/.
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This research has been stimulated by the profound ambivalence which Jewish schools show in deciding whether or how to teach Jewish history. This ambivalence is first examined in the context of a philosophical analysis of the relationship between critical history and other forms of historical consciousness. Finding this approach deficient, a psychological examination of how Jewish students experience the study of Jewish history is proposed. A critical review of research into children's historical thinking leads to the suggestion that alternative research traditions may be more fruitfully employed here. As a result, it is proposed to apply a concept mapping methodology to the investigation of what Jewish students acquire from the critical study of Jewish history. Theoretical problems raised by this proposal are confronted and resolved, and a defensible research strategy is then formulated according to series of explicitly articulated empirical and theoretical assumptions. This culminates in the presentation and description of an instrument for the generation and analysis of conceptual representations of Jewish historical knowledge in cognitive structure. Two case studies are offered. These are followed by a discussion of (1) how these studies might inform debate about the consequences of teaching critical Jewish history in Jewish schools; (2) the possibilities offered by applying a concept mapping methodology to Jewish education in general.
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Tseti, Angela. "Photo-literature and trauma : from collective history to connective memory." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC004.
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Prenant appui sur l'intérêt contemporain pour les rencontres texte/image et la prolifération récente des oeuvres bi-médiales, cette thèse se propose d'étudier les structures et les qualités du photo-roman, en vue de soutenir que cette forme nouvelle offre un espace privilégié à l'interrogation — et potentiellement à la représentation ¬des événements traumatiques collectifs. L'exploration d'une série de travaux photo-littéraires produits entre la fin du 20ème siècle et le début du 21ème et caractérisés par une thématique historiographique ainsi que la concomitance avec une catastrophe historique suggère que la combinaison de la fiction et de la photographie au sein d'un même dispositif photo-narratif est susceptible de fournir une alternative à la problématique bien connue de l'irreprésentabilité du trauma. Nous considérons que la photo-littérature emploie les rapports souvent notés entre la photographie et l'histoire, la biographie, le temps et la mort dans le cadre familier du roman, tout en faisant appel au lecteur comme un acteur indispensable du processus d'élaboration du sens textuel. Les mécanismes complexes du composé photo-textuel permettent de mettre en lumière le fait que les histoires de vie personnelles sont pertinentes à l'expérience collective, ainsi que les parallèles entre des événements historiques traumatiques divers. Ainsi, la photo-littérature permet un passage de l'histoire à un genre de mémoire qui est essentiellement connectif ; par là même, cette forme nouvelle va à l'encontre d'une incapacité présumée à énoncer la mémoire traumatique, en suivant une approche fondée sur l'attention et l'investissement affectifDrawing on the increased interest in word-image interactions and the recent proliferation of bimedial works of literature, this study proposes an investigation of the structures and qualities of the photo-nove', with the contention that this emergent new form constitutes a privileged space where instances of collective trauma may be addressed, potentially even represented. The exploration of a series of works of photo-literature of the Tate 20th and early 215t century that are affiliated to historiography and unfold in the midst or aftermath of a great historic calamity suggests that the combination of fiction and photography within a single, photo-textual narrative may counter the problematic of unrepresentability raised by Trauma Studies. Photo-literature, as this study purports, employs photography's well-lçnown relations to history, biography, time and'cleath within the familiar schema of the nove', while invoking? the respondent reader as an essential component of the meaning¬making process. These elaborate workings of the photo-textual compound result in the highlighting of the individual life story's pertinence to the collective experience and the establishment of parallels between diverse historical instances of trauma. Thus, photo-literature enables the passage from history to an essentially connective type of memory and, subsequently, responds to a professed inability to enunciate the traumatic experience, by offering an approach that is reliant on affective investment and attention
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Wood, John A. "Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/153677.
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This dissertation is a comprehensive study of the content, author demographics, publishing history, and media representation of the most prominent Vietnam veteran memoirs published between 1967 and 2005. These personal narratives are important because they have affected the collective memory of the Vietnam War for decades. The primary focus of this study is an analysis of how veterans' memoirs depict seven important topics: the demographics of American soldiers, combat, the Vietnamese people, race relations among U.S. troops, male-female relationships, veterans' postwar lives, and war-related political issues. The central theme that runs through these analyses is that these seven topics are depicted in ways that show veteran narratives represent constructed memories of the past, not infallible records of historical events. One reoccurring indication of this is that while memoirists' portrayals are sometimes supported by other sources and reflect historical reality, other times they clash with facts and misrepresent what actually happened. Another concern of this dissertation is the relationship of veteran memoirs to broader trends in public remembrance of the Vietnam War, and how and why some books, but not others, were able to achieve recognition and influence. These issues are explored by charting the publishing history of veteran narratives over a thirty-eight year period, and by analyzing media coverage of these books. This research indicates that mainstream editors and reviewers selected memoirs that portrayed the war in a negative manner, but rejected those that espoused either unambiguous anti- or pro-war views. By giving some types of narratives preference over others, the media and the publishing industry helped shape the public's collective understanding of the war.
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Lopez, C. "Condition / recondition : reconstruction of the city and its collective memory." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003224.
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Fung, Wing-hang Mathew, and 馮穎洐. "Collective memories, identity and cultural heritage conservation: a case study of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46736712.
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Fleming, Thomas. "Re-articulating tradition, translating place : collective memories of Carnival in Leeds and Bristol." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10222/.
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This thesis offers an ethnographic perspective on `African-Caribbean' Carnivals in Leeds (Chapeltown) and Bristol (St. Paul's), based on an integration of in-depth interviews, focus groups, archival analysis and participatory research. It demonstrates how globalized diasporic meanings are localized in and through the specificities of `place'. Rather than employing an exclusively textual method of deconstruction, which has dominated much of the academic work on Carnival, this research draws on participatory experience in social spaces such as mas camps, Carnival costume-making classes and singing groups to explore the practices through which Carnival is reconstituted. The thesis shows how these practices involve performances of different and contested collective memories, where individual participants react to and recreate these `unified' senses of tradition in very different ways (ranging from those who insist on a `Carnival tradition' based on walking mas and soca/calypso music, to those who celebrate a `mas by other means' through the rhythms of jungle and hip hop and `costumes' of branded sportswear and puffa jackets). Music and mas provide key examples of the emergence and re-articulation of complex and contested identities. Though hybrid in form and apparently `progressive' in sentiment, such forms and their related `new ethnicities' are shown to involve exclusions as well as inclusions, as they are patterned by the continued salience of `racialized difference'. The thesis therefore raises questions about how collective memories are actively reconstructed through their relations with the multiple spatialities of a `sense of place', and how racisms persist in influencing the meanings of `multicultural' events such as Carnival.
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Jefferson, Steven. "Exodus, expulsion, explication : collective memories of Silesia as a German-Polish frontier zone." Thesis, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2016. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6300/.
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This thesis addresses the traumata associated with Poland’s frontier changes in 1945, within a collective memory paradigm. These events include expulsions from German territories incorporated into Poland, and population transfers between Poland and the USSR. The thesis addresses two components: a central trauma complex, and the resulting collective memory discourse. Being a matter of historical record, the statistical details and chronology of these events are seldom contested, although they have often been instrumentalised by various stakeholders. Instead, the relevant collective memory discourse has focused on the production of broad, often exculpatory, narrative frameworks designed to explain a set of largely accepted facts. Accordingly, my thesis is primarily focused on this collective memory discourse. As an active phase, dominated by stakeholders with a high level of emotional investment in the narration and memorialisation of the relevant events, this collective memory discourse is currently undergoing a transition to the domain of History as a scholarly pursuit. This transition is best symbolised by the fact that, as of 2016, for the first time since 1945, all restrictions on the acquisition of agricultural land and forests in Poland’s former German territories, by Germans, will be lifted. Thus, for surviving expellees, the right of return, in conjunction with the potential to purchase any formerly held real estate and landholdings, will become a de jure reality, marking the end of the region’s long postwar period. Arguably, therefore, one can now engage, at a retrospective, analytical level, with the relevant collective memory discourse without being drawn into it. In order to navigate this complex discourse, I have developed a number of analytical and conceptual tools, which I hope may prove useful beyond this project. In this sense, this thesis can be viewed as a proof of concept. Chief among these tools are a novel working definition of collective memory as a discrete phase in the historification and mythologizing of traumatic events, and a three-level model designed for the consistent analysis of narrative texts, artefacts and cultural productions. By tracing the relevant collective memory discourse through a number of 4 disparate fields, including political myth-making, historiography, toponymic practice, cartography and literature, I have been able to test these analytical and conceptual tools to breaking point, often benefiting from the resulting heuristic gain wherever lived complexity defies simplistic analytic idealisation. To ensure a focused exposition of the theoretical framework and the sources analysed, this thesis is primarily centred upon Lower Silesia and the following broad research questions: what geo-socio-political power dynamics resulted in Poland’s postwar frontier changes and the associated traumata, and how were they justified at the time? How have historians reacted over time to Poland’s postwar frontier changes, and the humanitarian consequences, as well as to contemporary framework narratives relating to these events? How has the toponymic re-inscription of Poland’s former German territories influenced the relevant collective memory discourse, and to what extent have cartographic representations of postwar Poland been influenced by changing geo-political configurations? How have the prevailing socio-political conditions in postwar Germany and Poland constrained literary contributions to the relevant collective memory discourse? And, finally, in what ways, has literature contributed in turn, to the relevant collective memory discourse and the establishment of hegemonic historical narratives? This thesis presents a number of specific findings, the most significant of which is that political contingencies can result in a surprising deflection of collective memory discourse into seemingly unrelated fields, and can trigger a ripple effect, which has the ability to globalise collective memory discourse under certain circumstances. Similarly, my analysis of shared topoi in the works of German and Polish historians and literary authors demonstrates that, far from generating its own framework of reference based on specific traumatic events, collective memory discourse is exquisitely sensitive to broader socio-political narratives. In addition, I contend that mainstream historical narratives tend to simplify, for example, through the imposition of a chronology on multidirectional memories, and by focusing on homogenizing accounts of the collective at the expense of 5 individual narratives. In contrast, literature and local cultural performances often resist such simplification, thus preserving complexity. Viewed in this light, the pursuit of Cultural and Literary Studies addresses a clear problem within, and usefully augments, traditional historical scholarship. By carefully analysing a subset of Polish and German literature, historiography and cultural artefacts produced in response to the traumatic events in question, my thesis seeks to trace the transition from highly localised stakeholder-led collective memory discourses to hegemonic historical narratives developed and maintained in the service of broader geo-political agendas.
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Luengo, Ana. "La encrucijada de la memoria : la memoria colectiva de la Guerra Civil española en la novela contemporánea /." Berlin : Ed. Tranvía, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39261424j.
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Higham, Jon. "The politics of memory in the Austrian province of Carinthia how distinctive are the collective memories of the three main political parties of Carinthia? /." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=26086.
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Ritzau, Tobias. "Memory Efficient Hard Real-Time Garbage Collection." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Univ, 2003. http://www.ep.liu.se/diss/science_technology/08/28/index.html.
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Richard, Olivier. "Mémoires bourgeoises : "memoria" et identité urbaine à Ratisbonne à la fin du Moyen âge /." Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41468258b.
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Macaya, Lizano Ariana. "Histoire, mémoire et droit : les usages juridiques du passé." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010307/document.
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Le débat sur les lois «mémorielles» qui se développa en France à partir de 2005 servit de catalyseur pour une réflexion sur les relations entre le droit, l’histoire et la mémoire collective. Si le droit ne peut et, surtout, ne doit pas écrire l’histoire, les points de rencontre entre le droit et le passé sont nombreux, faisant ainsi du passé un véritable objet juridique. En effet, le droit s’inscrit dans un passé qu’il peut aussi organiser. L’affirmation selon laquelle le droit est un phénomène social implique non seulement qu’il influe sur le contexte social, mais aussi qu’il s’inscrit dans un contexte donné. Le passé du groupe humain qu’il organise exerce ainsi une influence dans sa formation et dans son application. Il peut aussi lui servir de fondement pour ancrer sa légitimité et sa prétention à être obéi. Mais le droit participe aussi à l’organisation du passé. Si le passé doit être représenté ou reconstruit afin de devenir un objet de connaissance, le droit peut non seulement encadrer, guider et organiser ces représentations, mais il peut aussi les construire lui-même, contribuant ainsi à la mise en place d’une mémoire collective apaisée. La fréquence et la variété des recours au passé par le droit démontrent leur généralité et leur utilité. Toutefois, l’examen de l’utilisation du passé par le droit révèle que tout usage porte en germe la possibilité d’une utilisation abusive. Si ces risques ont été mis en avant par le débat sur les lois mémorielles, leur examen critique permet une certaine relativisation des dangers de la juridicisation du passé et une mise en exergue de la nécessité de l’articulation des relations entre Thémis, Clio et MnémosyneThe debate over the “memorial laws” that developed in France since 2005 catalyzed a discussion on the relationship between law, history and collective memory. While Law cannot and, above all, should not write history, there are actually numerous connections between the Law and the past that render the past a true legal object. Law is, indeed, part of a past that can be juridically organized. Hence, the claim that Law is a social phenomenon implies not only that it can affect the social context but also that it is inscribed in a given context. In this regard, the past that the Law aims to organize exercises an influence over its formation and its application. Furthermore, the past can be the basis of the Law’s legitimacy and authority. At the same time, the Law participates in the organization of the past. If the past needs to be represented or rebuilt in order to become an object of knowledge, the Law can not only regulate, guide and organize those representations, but it can also build them itself, thus contributing to the establishment of an appeased collective memory. The frequency and variety of the Law’s references to the past demonstrate their relevance and usefulness. However, a closer examination of the use of the past within the Law reveals that this use carries the seeds of potential misuse. If those risks were highlighted by the debate over the “memorial laws”, further critical examination relativizes the dangers of juridification of the past and stresses the need for a better articulation of the relationship between Themis, Mnemosyne and Clio