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Osoian, Adriana. "Memories, a Bridge towards Intergenerational Learning!" Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 142 (August 2014): 499–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.07.655.
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Kunt, Gergely. "Mapping the Intergenerational Memory of the Holocaust in Hungarian Bystander Families: The Case of Sacha Batthyány’s Identity Novel, Und was hat das mit mir zu tun? [‘And What Does That Have to Do With Me?’]." Hungarian Cultural Studies 10 (September 6, 2017): 54–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2017.279.
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In this study, Kunt examines the intergenerational memory of the Holocaust in Hungarian bystander families. Communicative memory plays a key role in intergenerational relationships, as it allows the transmission of the family’s own interpretation of the past to younger generations, thereby becoming an important pillar of individual and family identity. Kunt’s analysis finds that in the memory of bystander families he has studied in Hungary, the persecution of the Jewish population is only marginally present, for several reasons. One is that the intergenerational communication of such memories has been scarce, as these memories in particular are seldom passed down to the third and fourth generations. Another reason is that the majority of Hungarian society is characterized by a sense of competitive victimhood, where many families impress upon their descendants the severity of their own historical losses while simultaneously dismissing or trivializing the losses of other social groups, often by suppressing memories related to the suffering of such groups.
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Gkinopoulos, Theofilos. "Nostalgic memories and human rights: Integrating subjective experiences with universal needs." Theory & Psychology 29, no. 6 (May 15, 2019): 853–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354319845505.
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In this comment, I focus on the integration of memories and human rights. The claim for the “self-evident” declares the claim for human rights not only of minorities, or oppressed and forgotten groups but, more broadly, of the self and different others. I consider human rights as they emerge from the content of intergenerational nostalgic memories and are reflected on the right to remember, the right to forget, the right to long for the past, and the right to life. I give a brief account of studies on intergenerational nostalgic memories and I argue for remembering processes as a fundamental human right. Finally, I discuss theoretical implications of integrating memory studies and human rights debates.
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Turunen, Tuija, and Sue Dockett. "Family Members' Memories about Starting School: Intergenerational Aspects." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 38, no. 2 (June 2013): 103–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693911303800213.
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Leonard, Madeleine. "Echoes from the Past: Intergenerational Memories in Cyprus." Children & Society 28, no. 1 (May 1, 2012): 66–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2012.00445.x.
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Narayan, Angela J., Chandra Ghosh Ippen, William W. Harris, and Alicia F. Lieberman. "Protective factors that buffer against the intergenerational transmission of trauma from mothers to young children: A replication study of angels in the nursery." Development and Psychopathology 31, no. 1 (February 2019): 173–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579418001530.
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AbstractThis replication study examined protective effects of positive childhood memories with caregivers (“angels in the nursery”) against lifespan and intergenerational transmission of trauma. More positive, elaborated angel memories were hypothesized to buffer associations between mothers’ childhood maltreatment and their adulthood posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms, comorbid psychopathology, and children's trauma exposure. Participants were 185 mothers (M age = 30.67 years, SD = 6.44, range = 17–46 years, 54.6% Latina, 17.8% White, 10.3% African American, 17.3% other; 24% Spanish speaking) and children (M age = 42.51 months; SD = 15.95, range = 3–72 months; 51.4% male). Mothers completed the Angels in the Nursery Interview (Van Horn, Lieberman, & Harris, 2008), and assessments of childhood maltreatment, adulthood psychopathology, children's trauma exposure, and demographics. Angel memories significantly moderated associations between maltreatment and PTSD (but not depression) symptoms, comorbid psychopathology, and children's trauma exposure. For mothers with less positive, elaborated angel memories, higher levels of maltreatment predicted higher levels of psychopathology and children's trauma exposure. For mothers with more positive, elaborated memories, however, predictive associations were not significant, reflecting protective effects. Furthermore, protective effects against children's trauma exposure were significant only for female children, suggesting that angel memories may specifically buffer against intergenerational trauma from mothers to daughters.
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Clark, Michael, Charlie Murphy, Tony Jameson-Allen, and Chris Wilkins. "Integrated working and intergenerational projects." Journal of Integrated Care 24, no. 5/6 (October 17, 2016): 300–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-10-2016-0039.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to promote discussion about, and the development of the evidence-base underpinning integrated working for intergenerational working. It discusses perspectives on intergenerational work in general and specifically draws on case experiences of the use of intergenerational reminiscence based on sporting memories to highlight issues pertaining to integrated working. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a general discussion of issues of intergenerational projects and integrated working, with case discussions of the use of sporting memories as an intervention for focusing intergenerational contact. Findings It is concluded that intergenerational work has much to offer but that it is far from clear how best to organise integrated working for this type of work. There are interesting lessons to be drawn for intergenerational interventions and integrated working from the case study discussions. Research limitations/implications Although case studies can provide crucial in-depth knowledge they can be limited in developing evidence we can be sure is more generalisable across contexts. Hence, further research is required into the impact of intergenerational projects, and how best to maximise this through effective integrated working. Practical implications The discussion and case study materials suggest there is much potential in using intergenerational projects to achieve a range of possible outcomes but it is not clear how integrated working is best operationalised in such work. Care is required about clarity concerning the aims of specific projects, but practitioners and others should be encouraged to carefully explore this area of work. Social implications The challenges of an ageing society are significant, as is the need to maintain intergenerational contact, mutuality and the implicit social contract across generations. Specifically developing opportunities for such contact may help achieve this and a range of other positive outcomes. Originality/value This paper brings together a discussion of intergenerational projects with consideration of the challenges of integrated working, and adds specific case study lessons from the use of sports-based reminiscence.
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Vintar-Mally, Katja, and Tatjana Resnik-Planinc. "Intergenerational differences in memories of Yugoslavia: The case of Slovenia." Geographica Pannonica 23, no. 3 (2019): 185–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/gp23-21233.
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Levine, Debra. "“Wasting” diagnoses and staging a dialogue on intergenerational Jewish memories." Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 18, no. 2 (July 2008): 101–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07407700802106798.
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Trujillo, Ester N. "Rupturing the Silences: Intergenerational Construction of Salvadoran Immigrant War Necronarratives." Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 75–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.11.1.75.
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Abstract As the children of wartime immigrants from El Salvador become adults, they must grapple with the role violence played—and continues to play—in Salvadoran society. Second-generation Salvadorans interpret their relatives’ stories of war, death, and violence through a lens that prioritizes lessons gained over traumatization. Thus, immigrant parents’ casual discussions about their experiences during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992) become what this article calls necronarratives: stories pieced together from memories based on foiling death and violence generated through state necropolitics. Youth interpret inherited memories through a lens of survival, resilience, and healing. Necropolitics refers to the ability of the state to legislate and draw policies that determine who lives and who dies. Although scholars have noted that high levels of war-related trauma among Salvadoran immigrants cause them to remain silent about those experiences, my research reveals that children of these immigrants collect and construct narratives using the memory fragments shared during casual conversations with their relatives. Drawing from 20 semi-structured interviews with U.S. Salvadorans, this paper shows that U.S. Salvadorans construct narratives out of their family’s war memories in order to locate affirming qualities of the Salvadoran experience such as surviving a war, achieving migration, and building a life in a new country. Contrary to past indications that Central American migrants live in silence about their national origins in order to avoid discrimination in the U.S. and to avoid traumatizing their children, this study on second-generation Salvadoran adults describes the ethnic roots information families do share through war stories. The Salvadoran case shows youth actively engage with necronarratives as they come of age to adulthood to yield lessons about how their national origins and ethnic heritages shape their senses of belonging and exclusion within U.S. society.
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Wolf, Diane L. "Postmemories of joy? Children of Holocaust survivors and alternative family memories." Memory Studies 12, no. 1 (February 2019): 74–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698018811990.
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Substantial research in multiple disciplines on Jewish Holocaust survivors and their postwar offspring has been dominated by the discourse of trauma, focusing on the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Based on the narratives of 35 children of Holocaust survivors in the United States, my research counters and nuances this over-determined “paradigm of trauma” by illuminating their more diverse cache of family memories. Some parents transmitted their Holocaust experiences in lively and colorful ways,as an exciting adventure, as a fairy tale, or as a humorous story. The narratives suggest that for these children of survivors, the postmemories of their parents’ history and trauma are embedded in other positive family memories, including the way in which the stories were told. Thus, postmemories of trauma do not necessarily elide or dominate other more positive family memories, including memories of joy
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Olivares, Vidal, and Robert J. Ceglie. "The Intergenerational Transmission of Mathematics Attitudes." International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology 8, no. 2 (April 4, 2020): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.46328/ijemst.v8i2.741.
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Cold sweats, head shakes, and memories of hardship are the common reactions when adults are introduced to a high school mathematics teacher. These negative reactions contribute to an attitude towards mathematics that continues to permeate American society. Unfortunately, there is a growing concern that these negative attitudes may be passed from adults to susceptible youth resulting in a never-ending cycle of dislike towards mathematics. The current study aimed to investigate the ways in which students internalize the mathematics attitudes of their parents in light of mathematics capital theory. Instruments measuring self-efficacy beliefs in mathematics, as well as value placed on learning content were administered to all juniors, seniors, and their parents in a suburban school district. The survey data was analyzed to identify candidates for interviews. Interviews of eight parents and their children were conducted to explore the sources of the students’ self-efficacy beliefs. Findings revealed that the relationship between a parent and child’s belief systems is complex and varies according to the parent’s level of mathematics beliefs.
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Fukunishi, Isao, and Wayne Paris. "Intergenerational Association of Alexithymic Characteristics for College Students and Their Mothers." Psychological Reports 89, no. 1 (August 2001): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2001.89.1.77.
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The intergenerational association of alexithymic characteristics of mothers and their children were examined in a sample of 232 pairs of college students and their mothers. Scores on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Parental Bonding Inventory, and the Family Environmental Scale of college students were significantly correlated with their mothers' memories of when they were also 20 years old. College students' scores were significantly correlated with their mothers' scores on each questionnaire. The student-mother pairs were further divided into two family types, nuclear and extended families. Correlations were higher for scores of the nuclear family than for those of the extended family. Such results suggest there may be intergenerational transmission of alexithymia and related factors from mothers to children.
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Gildin, Marsha, Rose Binder, Irving Chipkin, Vera Fogelman, Billie Goldstein, and Albert Lippel. "Learning by Heart: Intergenerational Theater Arts." Harvard Educational Review 83, no. 1 (March 26, 2013): 150–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.83.1.r16186gr82t78471.
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We are a lucky group of older adults, ranging in age from sixty to ninety-two, who participate in an intergenerational arts program at our local senior center in Flushing, Queens, one of New York City's most culturally diverse communities. In our living history theater program, run by Elders Share the Arts (ESTA) and facilitated by ESTA teaching artist Marsha Gildin, we are joined weekly by fifth graders from PS 24, a public elementary school located around the corner. Some of our senior members joined just last year, while others have been involved for more than a decade. Our relationship with the children is very special and mutually nourishing. ESTA guides us in sessions based on sharing stories from life experience and in transforming memories into art. We explore our ideas through theater exercises and devise an original piece rooted in what we have learned from one another. Rehearsals are an ensemble learning process. With forty-five people on stage during our performances at the senior center and school, the performance experience is always challenging, surprising, and well received. We connect strongly with the children during the program year, and our goodbyes are tinged with sadness, for we have grown close in our shared art making. This year our theme focused on the power of music in our lives.
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Bolkan, Cory, and Raven Weaver. "Memories of a Grandparent’s Death: Preparation for Future Losses." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 606–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2050.
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Abstract Experiences of death in early life may result in identity-defining memories that last a lifetime. Autobiographical memories serve psychosocial functions, acting as guides for future behavior. Understanding early death experiences may thus inform lifelong personal views about death, dying, and bereavement. We queried 50 adults (ages 19 – 67 years) using a structured set of questions to recall and write about their earliest and most significant losses. The narratives were qualitatively analyzed using the constant comparative method associated with grounded theory. Results indicated a grandparent’s death was the most frequently reported significant loss, reflecting the value of intergenerational relationships and the long-lasting impact of grandparent death. Themes also emerged concerning participants’ reports of the benefits of actively remembering and reflecting on loss, as well as learning from others’ losses, which further deepened their views of death. These findings highlight how early memories of death, including one's grandparents, can have lifelong impact.
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Hanson, Cindy, and Heather Fox Griffith. "Tanning, Spinning, and Gathering Together: Intergenerational Indigenous Learning in Textile Arts." Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning 2, no. 1 (July 29, 2017): 225–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15402/esj.v2i1.208.
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Intergenerational Learning in Indigenous Textile Communities of Practice was an interdisciplinary arts- and community-based study that inquired into the intergenerational practices of beading and weaving in two Indigenous contexts – one in Southern Chile and the other in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The research process involved building relational networks, developing decolonizing methodologies, and working with collaborators, elders, community coordinators, and members of Indigenous textile communities of practice. The research methods, which are a focus of this article, included the use of artifacts to draw out memories and stories of intergenerational learning and to engage the communities in deciding how to share the knowledge generated. Both the data gathering methods and the knowledge mobilization led to arts-based outcomes. The study specifically inquired into how learning is structured and passed on to subsequent generations within communities of practice and the findings provide insights into the way this knowledge is transferred and/or disrupted. Critical reflection on the process highlighted some of the challenges that arose – both with the academic researcher and the community and inside the community.
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Slabáková, Radmila Švaříčková. "Moral Heroes or Suffering Persons? Ancestors in Family Intergenerational Stories and the Intersection of Family and National Memories." Journal of Family History 44, no. 4 (July 21, 2019): 431–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199019863463.
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This article adds to recent intergenerational family memory research by presenting an empirical study of three-generational stories recounted by thirteen families in the Czech Republic. By drawing on a detailed and rigorous methodological approach, this article focuses on the topic of stories, their emotionality, and the personal traits of the heroes. The majority of families told their family stories in a prototypical, perhaps archetypal fashion, depicting their ancestors as heroes under circumstances of danger, fear, and threat. A tendency to valorize ancestors is observed in the stories framed by important historical events while private family stories tend to have more of an amusing character. Why a family shares that or another type of stories depends on many circumstances, particularly on a long-lived and generative ancestor, intergenerational relations, and family values.
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Chen, Nancy N. "Making memories: Chinese foodscapes, medicinal foods, and generational eating." Memory Studies 13, no. 5 (September 17, 2020): 820–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698020943013.
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The availability and abundance of foods in 21st century China have dramatically expanded over the past three decades. Despite the proximity of memories of food insecurity—the intergenerational preparation and sharing of meals continue to mark social identity and belonging. This article explores how contemporary Chinese foodways and medicinal recipes connect with past times as well as convey cultural memory. Two case studies will animate this analysis. The first part of the article will examine the Cuisine Museum in Hangzhou where past coexists with present and future as attendees view displays of specific dishes and grand tables followed by consuming sumptuous meals recreated at the adjoining restaurant. The second half will explore the realms of medicinal foods and recipes that reflect longstanding notions of health that are being promoted in contemporary China. Altogether, these arenas suggest that foodscapes, particularly medicinal foods, offer key assemblages of food memory, time, and wellbeing.
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Light, Duncan, Remus Creţan, and Andreea-Mihaela Dunca. "Museums and Transitional Justice: Assessing the Impact of a Memorial Museum on Young People in Post-Communist Romania." Societies 11, no. 2 (May 12, 2021): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc11020043.
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Memorial museums are frequently established within transitional justice projects intended to reckon with recent political violence. They play an important role in enabling young people to understand and remember a period of human rights abuses of which they have no direct experience. This paper examines the impact of a memorial museum in Romania which interprets the human rights abuses of the communist period (1947–1989). It uses focus groups with 61 young adults and compares the responses of visitors and non-visitors to assess the impact of the museum on views about the communist past, as well as the role of the museum within post-communist transitional justice. The museum had a limited impact on changing overall perceptions of the communist era but visiting did stimulate reflection on the differences between past and present, and the importance of long-term remembrance; however, these young people were largely skeptical about the museum’s role within broader processes of transitional justice. The paper concludes that it is important to recognize the limits of what memorial museums can achieve, since young people form a range of intergenerational memories about the recent past which a museum is not always able to change.
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Myllys, Riikka. "Nowhere and Everywhere." Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion 56, no. 1 (June 15, 2020): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33356/temenos.71104.
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This article investigates the intergenerational transmission of craft making, including the role religion and spirituality play in this transmission. The theoretical approach is based on everyday religion and Bengtson’s theory of intergenerational solidarity. The data for this qualitative study was collected in interviews. The results show that warm relationships and closeness between generations are at the heart of transmission: craft making brings different generations together, creates space for intimate relationships, and serves as a way of showing care for children and grandchildren. What about religion? At first glance it seems absent. However, a closer look reveals multiple religious aspects of this process, such as transmitted values and shared craft-making moments associated with religious memories and experiences. Above all, craft making is a venue for warmth and closeness between generations, which is at the heart of religious transmission.
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Stone, Charles B., Aurélie van der Haegen, Olivier Luminet, and William Hirst. "Personally relevant vs. nationally relevant memories: An intergenerational examination of World War II memories across and within Belgian French-speaking families." Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 3, no. 4 (December 2014): 280–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.08.002.
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Vasvári, Louise O. "Identity and Intergenerational Remembrance Through Traumatic Culinary Nostalgia: Three Generations of Hungarians of Jewish Origin." Hungarian Cultural Studies 11 (August 6, 2018): 57–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2018.322.
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In my interdisciplinary analysis of foodways which combines Gender Studies with Holocaust Studies, I aim to demonstrate the cultural and gendered significance of the wartime sharing of recipes among starving women prisoners in concentration camps. This study will further discuss the continuing importance of food talk and food writing in the aftermath of the Holocaust, with an emphasis on the memory work of Hungarian survivors and their descendants. Fantasy cooking and recipe creation, or “cooking with the mouth,” as it was called in many camps, was a way for many inmates to maintain their identities and connections to their ethnic and family history, a survival technique that may have influenced the depiction of food memories and their continuing role in the postwar memoir writing of survivor women. I will also examine the continued use of food talk as a genealogy of intergenerational remembrance and transmission in the post-memory writing of second-generation and even third-generation daughters and (very occasionally) sons of Hungarian origin. Studying multigenerational Holocaust alimentary writing has become particularly urgent today because we are approaching a biological and cultural caesura, at which juncture direct survivors will disappear and we will need new forms of transmission to reshape Holocaust memories for the future.
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Lilley, Heather, and Harry Derbyshire. "Reperforming memories: Using the reminiscence theatre archive as a resource for new intergenerational work." Journal of Applied Arts & Health 4, no. 2 (October 1, 2013): 191–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jaah.4.2.191_1.
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O'Dea, Meghan. "Reflecting on the Present Burdened by the Past: German-Polish Relations in Robert Thalheim's Film Am Ende kommen Touristen (2007)." German Politics and Society 31, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 40–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2013.310403.
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This article discusses the portrayal of German-Polish relations in Robert Thalheim's 2007 film Am Ende kommen Touristen. Situated within present day Oświęcim, Poland—more commonly known as Auschwitz, the historical site of Nazi perpetration—Touristen shifts viewer attention toward contemporary concerns surrounding historical memories of Auschwitz and the present day transnational encounters at the memorial site. This article discusses memory constellations as well as the intercultural and intergenerational issues depicted in the film. By showing how the past still continues to affect contemporary relationships between Germans and Poles, the film calls for continued engagement and dialogue to work through the shared past in the European present. This article furthermore discusses the status of Touristen as a “third wave” Holocaust film that distances itself from cinematic, historical reconstruction on a visual and narrative level by rather focusing attention on the pieces of the past that continue to affect contemporary German-Polish relationships.
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Jacobvitz, Deborah B., Elizabeth Morgan, Molly D. Kretchmar, and Yvonne Morgan. "The transmission of mother-child boundary disturbances across three generations." Development and Psychopathology 3, no. 4 (October 1991): 513–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579400007665.
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AbstractAttachment theory and family systems perspectives were used to explore the intergenerational origins of an overinvolved, symbiotic parenting pattern that hampers children's emerging autonomy. Consistent with principles of developmental psychopathology, the same underlying relationship disturbance was expected to manifest differently at different times in the developmental process. Specifically, links among maternal intrusiveness during infancy, overprotection during childhood, and mother-child role-reversal during young adulthood were explored. Forty-nine maternal grandmothers, mothers, and firstborn infants were visited in the mothers' homes when the infants were 6 and 9 months old. Grandmothers' memories of overprotection were related to observational ratings of high boundary dissolution and low positive affectivity with the mothers. No significant relationships were found between mothers' past and current relationships with the grandmothers. Yet, mothers' memories of overprotection during childhood or their current participation in unaffectionate, enmeshed, and role-reversed relationships with their mothers forecast their intrusive care with their own infants. Moreover, mothers' memories of overprotection related to their beliefs that others cannot be trusted and these beliefs were related, in turn, to observations of their intrusive care at 9 months. The implications of understanding the origins of maternal intrusiveness for developing prevention programs are discussed.
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Mills, BA, Emily J., Lauren S. Seifert, PhD, and Clare Murray Adams, MFA. "Arts-based reminiscence through visual art and narrative analysis: An intergenerational exploration." American Journal of Recreation Therapy 13, no. 3 (February 12, 2017): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/ajrt.2014.0077.
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Objective: To celebrate memory through intergenerational reminiscence that led to the creation of Keepsake Boxes and to the cultivation of lively narratives about them. In Western cultures, adults more than 65 years of age are often subjected to negative and condescending attitudes. Yet they are one of our greatest resources—possessing life experience and wisdom. The current research study sought to oppose ageism and affirm the value of aging adults through reminiscence, expressive art, visual analysis, and narrative analysis. In an intergenerational collaboration, a multimethod and trans-disciplinary approach was used to investigate an arts-based reminiscence activity. With a focus on problem solving, the authors drew upon theory, research, and methods from art, psychology, gerontology, and literary analysis. Dialogic process, narrative analysis, qualitative research techniques, and visual methods were cultivated. All participants took an art class that focused on one of their chosen, significant memories. The researchers used both narrative and visual methods to respond to participants’ artwork and narrative explanations. This project provides an example of the use of multiple methodologies within a trans-disciplinary framework to help engage adults across generations in reminiscence and reflection. It reasserts a positive role of art activities in elder life and of intergenerational collaboration in arts-based research.
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Manoogian, Margaret M., Heidi Igarashi, and Maggie Leinenweber. "AN INTERGENERATIONAL DYADIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING GRANDPARENT DEATH WITHIN A FAMILY SYSTEM." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1039.
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Abstract Due to increased longevity and generational location, grandparent death creates new contexts for identity, family culture, and intergenerational relationships. To explore this loss from two perspectives, we conducted intensive interviews with young adults and their mothers (N = 16) who experienced a recent grandparent (parent) death. Guided by the life course perspective, we were interested to learn how grandparent death may shape identity, meaning, and behaviors among family members, and influence their shared parent-child relationship. Findings suggest that the relationship with the grandparent, the diverse expressions of grief, the navigation of family transitions during and after death, and the curation of grandparent memories influenced individual and family outcomes. Implications suggest the need for varied supports that are sensitive to how individual family members approach grief in distinct ways reflective of their developmental positions, past experiences, and relational expectations.
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Nakagawa, Satoru. "What kind of pen do I need to use to write my culture and my language?" Language and Literacy 13, no. 1 (May 3, 2011): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/g23s3g.
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Through a form of narrative inquiry involving the use of vignettes and ruminations about present and past, the author examines the role(s) of orality, literacy, and aurality in the intergenerational transmission of his language and culture. Weaving together stories from childhood, memories, and translations of his grandmother’s poetry, the author raises questions about how we, as Indigenous peoples, might ensure that we are able to teach our own next generations our spirits, hearts, being/knowing of the world and who we are as human beings now that oral cultures are being discarded--or worse, written down.
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Svob, Connie, Norman R. Brown, Vladimir Takšić, Katarina Katulić, and Valnea Žauhar. "Intergenerational transmission of historical memories and social-distance attitudes in post-war second-generation Croatians." Memory & Cognition 44, no. 6 (March 29, 2016): 846–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13421-016-0607-x.
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Gedgaudaitė, Kristina. "Comics, memory and migration: Through the mirror maze of Soloup’s Aivali." Journal of Greek Media & Culture 6, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 91–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00005_1.
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This article turns towards the legacy of the Greco-Turkish War (1919‐22) in contemporary Greek culture. Drawing on the conceptual frameworks of postmemory and intergenerational transmission of trauma, it examines the Greek graphic novel Aivali by Soloup (2014, translated into English in 2019) in order to discuss aesthetics and practices set in motion by the memory of Asia Minor, when the relay of remembrance reaches the third generation. The article demonstrates how the fragments of memories that the grandchildren of Asia Minor refugees inherited from their ancestors find their way into comics panels, through which those memories are reassembled into a public visual archive. At the same time, the graphic novel also performs a reconstitution of the Greek literary canon, when the works of Greek and Turkish writers are called upon to fill in the gaps in the family story. Ultimately, it is argued that affective connections fostered through reading Aivali ensure that memory can travel across time and lead to new encounters, bringing back reminiscences of Asia Minor afresh to communities’ collective imagination.
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Schindler, Ruben, Chya Spiegel, and Esther Malachi. "Silences: Helping Elderly Holocaust Victims Deal with the Past." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 35, no. 4 (December 1992): 243–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/0m5q-7byx-44nr-m1gg.
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Persons who have faced severe crises such as the Holocaust in Nazi Germany confront painful memories, guilt, and the perceived irrationality of their own survival, which represses thoughts and memories. There is no language to share the dark and difficult years of the past. Silence is their only voice of expression. In later life, when friends are gone, the need to share with others becomes urgent; to bear witness is vital. Helping persons share these experiences is no easy task. To engage the elderly with reminiscences, memory, bereavement, and the working through of guilt provide unusual challenges for the helping professions. Significant family events are also important opportunities for sharing the past. It is the children and grandchildren's desire to know that also prompts the sharing of past horrors and future hopes. They often enable the deepest silences to be shared and it is the elderly that often welcome this opportunity. Being sensitive to these intergenerational dynamics are important in helping elderly Holocaust victims deal with their past.
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Burgess, Adriane L. "Intergenerational Reflections on Birth: Story as a Method to Enhance Meaning Making in Prelicensure Nursing Students." Journal of Perinatal Education 26, no. 1 (2017): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1058-1243.26.1.18.
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ABSTRACTStories have been used as a way to educate and inform. An educational activity was created for use with prelicensure nursing students in a maternal infant health course where students had the opportunity to be present to the birth stories of older adults. These stories were transformative and brought new context to how the students understood current-day labor and birth practices. This activity allowed students to see how powerful the birth process is in a woman’s life, in that these memories had the power to transcend time. Students were also able to build relationships and practice their communication skills with older adults, which in turn may also be beneficial for the older adults as well.
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Gantumur, Zoljargalan, Marcos Baez, Nomin-Erdene Ulamnemekh, Francisco Ibarra, Sugarmaa Myagmarjav, and Fabio Casati. "Effects of Sharing Old Pictures With Grandchildren on Intergenerational Relationships: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial." JMIR Research Protocols 9, no. 4 (April 30, 2020): e16315. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/16315.
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Background Intergenerational relationships are beneficial for both grandparents and grandchildren. A positive grandparent-grandchild relationship can improve the psychological well-being of older adults and be a source of social support, family history, and identity development. Maintaining meaningful interactions can be, however, a challenging endeavor, especially as life events lead to relocating geographically. Grandparents and grandchildren can have different preferences in terms of communication mediums and different assumptions about the real conversational needs of the other. Objective In this study, we will investigate the feasibility and effect of sharing memories of older adults with their grandchildren in social media. This intervention focuses on bringing snippets of the lives of the grandparents into the grandchildren’s social media feed and analyzing the potential effect on relational quality, relational investment, and conversational resources from the perspective of the grandchildren. Methods A randomized controlled trial will be used to measure the effectiveness of sharing family memories through social media on intergenerational relationships from the perspective of the grandchildren. The study will be implemented in Mongolia among 60 grandparent-grandchild pairs who will be assigned to either a control or intervention group. Pictures and stories will be collected during reminiscence sessions between the researchers and the grandparents before the intervention. During an intervention period of 2 months, grandchildren in the intervention group will receive pictures and stories of their grandparents on their social media account. Pre- and postintervention questionnaires will measure relationship quality, relationship investment, and conversational resources and will be used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention. Results We conducted a pretest pilot from January to April 2018 among 6 pairs of participants (6 grandparents and 6 grandchildren). The validation of the protocol was focused on the process, instruments, and technological setup. We continued the study after the validation, and 59 pairs of participants (59 grandparents and 59 grandchildren) have been recruited. The data collection was completed in November 2019. Conclusions The results of this study will contribute to strategies to stimulate social interactions in intergenerational pairs. A validation of the study process is also presented to provide further operational recommendations. The lessons learned during the validation of the protocol are discussed with recommendations and implications for the recruitment, reminiscence sessions, technological setup, and administration of instruments. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/16315
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Deloria, Philip J. "T.C. Cannon’s Guitar." Arts 8, no. 4 (October 14, 2019): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8040132.
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How might we understand the art—and perhaps something of the life—of Kiowa/Caddo artist T.C. Cannon by centering his engagement with music and in particular with a meditation on Cannon’s 000-18 Martin guitar, which greeted visitors to the landmark exhibition, T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America? In the form of a personal reflective essay, T.C. Cannon’s Guitar contemplates my own history with similar guitars, songs from the folk-songwriter tradition, and questions of multi-media crossings—art, music, text, object—that demonstrate revealing stylistic affinities. The essay explores intergenerational relations between myself, Cannon, and my father Vine Deloria, Jr., the three of us evenly spaced over the course of the late twentieth century, and it does so in an effort to understand something about the historical impulses of the period between 1965 and 1978. In that moment—accessible to me through memories of affects more than memories of actions—Native politics and art were both figuring out ways to honor the past while making it new, creating distinctive forms that we can recognize around concepts such as survivance, sovereignty, and indigenous modernism.
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Feld, Claudia. "Constructing Memory through Television in Argentina." Latin American Perspectives 43, no. 5 (July 9, 2016): 29–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x15570878.
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Television represents Argentina’s recent past through three specific links with social memory: as an “entrepreneur of memory,” shaping public agendas, as a vehicle of intergenerational transmission of past events, and as a creator of meaning through images, sounds, and words, a “stage for memory.” An analysis in terms of the links between television and the memories constructed around the forced disappearance of persons during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship reveals the complex way in which the obstacles when narrating an extreme experience are combined with the attempt to sell a product and entertain the spectator. La televisión representa el pasado reciente de la Argentina a través de vínculos específicos con la memoria social: como un “emprendedor de la memoria” definiendo las agendas públicas, como un vehículo de transmisión intergeneracional sobre el pasado y como un creador de significados por medio de imágenes, sonidos y palabras, esto es, un “escenario para la memoria.” Un análisis de los vínculos entre televisión y memorias, construido alrededor de la desaparición forzada de personas durante la dictadura militar de 1976 a 1983, revela la manera compleja en la cual los obstáculos para relatar ese periodo trágico se combinan con el intento de vender un producto y entretener al espectador.
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Lähteenmäki, Maria, and Alfred Colpaert. "Memory politics in transition: Nostalgia tours and gilded memories of Petsamo." Matkailututkimus 16, no. 1 (March 9, 2020): 8–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.33351/mt.85341.
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The paper examines politics of memory related to the Arctic Finnish-Russian-Norwegian borderland, Petsamo-Pechenga. How it has been remembered, shared and interpreted after the Second World War by refugees from Finnish Petsamo and their offspring, on the one hand, and Finnish public writing, on the other hand? Which means have been used to revitalize their collective and personal narratives and construct the geohistorical space of Petsamo? During the Second World War, Petsamo was the focus of the Arctic conflict, and at the end of the war, Finland lost the region to the Soviet Union. Our source material comprises 521 articles, which we analyzed using qualitative and text mining methods. We conclude that compared with the other war refugee communities in Finland, Petsamo is peripheral to Finnish public post-war memory politics and nostalgia tourism. This is for several reasons: the fact that people from Petsamo constituted a minority among the Finnish evacuees (5200 of 420,000) and were subdivided into two groups (Finns and Skolt Sami people), the devastated and polluted environment, militarization and closeness of Russian Pechenga until the 1990s. The politics of memory about Petsamo – such as nostalgia tourism, written memories, monuments, intergenerational experiences of landscape and history books – can be seen as a manifestation of collective sorrow for a lost homeland, both as individual therapeutic surrender and creating a special emotional community of ex-Petsamo people.
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Markovits, Andrea. "Puppet theatre: A way to tell what cannot be told and to face pain." Journal of Applied Arts & Health 11, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 149–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00027_7.
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Processes of artistic reparation and memory recovery are spaces created for victims of state terrorism and family members of the disappeared in the context of the military dictatorship in Chile (1973‐90). Puppet therapy was utilized as a methodology by the company Puppets in Transit with participants drawn from Integrated Health Services in Chile in relation to reparation projects. This process of intervention with puppets seeks to restore social bonds, to enable an intergenerational dialogue and to transmit fragmented memory. The puppet, an expressive, symbolic and mediating object, stimulates a collective dialogue to create collective performance related to participants’ memories. All those mentioned in this article have given permission for their stories to be mentioned; we use only first names.
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Chappell, Anne, and Elaine Welsh. "Resilience, Relationality, and Older People: The Importance of Intergenerationality." Sociological Research Online 25, no. 4 (March 2, 2020): 644–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780420904742.
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In this article, we examine the concept of resilience. Debates range from defining it as an individualised attribute to understanding it as a relational social process. Concerns about an ageing population alongside a growing interest in well-being have led to an increase in the use of the term ‘resilience’ in UK policy and political rhetoric. Developing strategies for ‘bouncing back’ from difficult circumstances has been at the heart of much discussion of resilience. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews and focus groups with older people in the UK, we explore their perspectives on resilience. We found that relationships, including intergenerational ones, are crucial to older people’s understandings of resilience. Our data showed that narratives from the past were used to sustain resilience in the present and that negotiation and exchange between generations, as well as intergenerational connections in the community, fostered resilience among our participants. We found that relationality was at the heart of older people’s perspectives on resilience and that the social process of resilience was acted out in their everyday interactions with others as well as through their memories of past interactions. This article argues that recognising the significance of these daily practices contributes to a more nuanced understanding of resilience.
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Struik, Arianne. "Treating Chronically Traumatised Children with the Sleeping Dogs Method: Don't Let Sleeping Dogs Lie!" Children Australia 42, no. 2 (June 2017): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2017.13.
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Many traumatised children in Australia do not receive the type of trauma-focused treatment endorsed by international guidelines and, as such, they suffer from the consequences of intergenerational trauma. Even when trauma-focused treatment is available, there is a group of children who are difficult to engage in treatment and do not want to talk about their traumatic memories. Clinicians are often reluctant to address the trauma, for fear of ‘waking up sleeping dogs’. All children deserve a chance to heal from trauma and I believe we, as a society, have a responsibility to provide children with appropriate services and treatment methods to help them achieve this. This article describes the Sleeping Dogs method, a three-phased trauma-focused treatment method, based on a collaborative use of interventions by therapists, child-protection workers, residential staff, school and the child's network. A Six Test Form is used to analyse the possible reasons why the child is unable to talk about his or her traumatic memories, for which interventions are planned. Case examples with children who can be difficult to engage in trauma-focused treatment are used to illustrate interventions. Clinical experiences show the Sleeping Dogs method has been successfully used internationally, as well as remote communities in Australia.
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Dayton, Carolyn J., Wendy K. Matthews, Laurel M. Hicks, and Johanna C. Malone. "The expression of music throughout the lives of expectant parents." Psychology of Music 45, no. 6 (February 1, 2017): 839–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305735617692165.
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Music can promote emotion regulation in individuals exposed to trauma and stress and may support positive parenting behaviors. The primary aim of the current study was to examine the use of music in the lives of a sample of expectant mothers and fathers ( N = 102), who were considered at risk for insensitive parenting due to exposure to environmental and psychosocial stressors. Interviews probed childhood memories of music, current engagement with music, and parental plans to share music with their infants after birth. Using principles of grounded theory, a thematic coding process was employed. Findings highlight the relationship-salient and culturally embedded nature of music in the lives of these parents. Parents described the intergenerational transmission of musical family traditions. They recalled memories of music, which were linked in important ways to the central caregivers in their own early lives and described their intentions to use music in similar ways when caring for their own children. Parents also described the fundamental integration of music within their communities and culture. Findings suggest that promoting parental use of music to soothe and care for their children may be one cost-effective intervention technique that supports feelings of parental competence and parent–infant connection.
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Souza, Elza Maria de. "Intergenerational integration, social capital and health: a theoretical framework and results from a qualitative study." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 16, no. 3 (March 2011): 1733–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1413-81232011000300010.
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The purpose of this paper is to report results from a qualitative evaluation of a school based intergenerational intervention and also to derive a theoretical framework to explain the changes of attitudes in an intervention of this kind. This is a qualitative evaluation of an intervention where 32 elders from the neighbouring area of a secondary school of Ceilândia, Distrito Federal (DF) of Brazil shared their memories with the 111 students during four months. After the intervention, adolescents and elders took part in 14 focus group discussions where they evaluated the effect of the activities in some aspect of their lives. The intervention had a positive impact in the participants' perceptions of family relationships, health status and solidarity. However, it did not improve feelings of trust in others. The results also suggested other possible dimensions of social capital for these age groups such as mutual respected and perception of being valued by others. Although the study had some limitations, it showed the possible mechanisms of psychosocial changes involved in interventions of this kind which have not been investigated.
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DRYJANSKA, LAURA, STEFANIA AIELLO, and MARZIA GIUA. "Social representations, ageing and memory: a holistic approach to cognitive assessment." Ageing and Society 37, no. 4 (January 7, 2016): 804–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x15001464.
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ABSTRACTThis paper examines how contextual (conversational) aspects and socially shared meanings might affect the participants' performance on a standardised memory test using the theoretical framework of social representations. A total of 97 members of centres for older adults located in Rome, Italy participated in a screening using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test. Prior to testing, a group of volunteers had organised a performance focused on events from the distant past, stimulating intergenerational reminiscence. The participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. In the first case, prior to administering the test, a psychotherapist talked to each participant about the performance, focusing on ageing and stressing the neutral aspects of its social representations, such as change and time. In the second case, performance was used to concentrate on positive aspects of the social representations of ageing, namely wisdom and experience. In line with the hypothesis, focusing on positive aspects of social representations of ageing (wisdom and experience) versus their neutral aspects (change and time) has resulted in improved performance on a standardised memory test. Practitioners (psychotherapists – experts in psycho-diagnostics) who administered the tests have been involved in the co-construction of the meaning of ageing, discussing a real-life situation: the common experience of intergenerational activity that involved the participants' memories of their urban environment.
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Knight, Abigail, Rebecca O'Connell, and Julia Brannen. "The temporality of food practices: intergenerational relations, childhood memories and mothers' food practices in working families with young children." Families, Relationships and Societies 3, no. 2 (July 1, 2014): 303–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674313x669720.
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Hanif, Fauzan, Wening Udasmoro, and Wulan Tri Astuti. "MEMORY TRANSMISSION IN DORA BRUDER NOVEL: A POST-MEMORY ANALYSIS." LiNGUA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra 16, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/ling.v16i1.10446.
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Traumatic events such as the Holocaust transcend through generations. Hirsch strengthens this argument by saying that post-memory is a study of the structure of intergenerational and trans-generational memory transmission in the form of traumatic knowledge and experiences. This study raises the meaning of memory transmission in the Dora Bruder novel by Patrick Modiano. The method used in this article is the content analysis of the story. The data are collected form of sentences that describe the meaningful forms of memory transmission. There are three interpretations from the results of memory transmission. They are the narrator’s interpretation of a location as signifiers of the incommensurability of return, the narrator’s interpretation as an agent and actor of allo-identification, and the emergence of a desire to reject the act of forgetting. Analysis using post-memory illustrates that the generation of heirs to the traumatic memories inherits various challenged and debated questions, intending to expose and retell that story to the public.
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Vandecasteele, Marieke, Ted Oonk, Elisabeth De Schauwer, and Geert Van Hove. "A visitor in your house? Letters about non/normative family lives from sisters becoming mothers." DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies 7, no. 2 (February 3, 2021): 94–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/digest.v7i2.16570.
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Two women have become mothers. They both make art. They both grew up in a family with a sibling labelled as disabled. Ted, a visual artist, has made photographic and video work about her youngest sister. Marieke, an ethnographic filmmaker, created a short film about her eldest brother which fuelled her PhD about non-normative family lives. Intrigued by motherhood and sisterhood they start writing letters, through which they bring their memories, thoughts, artistic creations into life. This arts-based study is about entangled motherhood—i.e., the entanglement of mother-sister-daughter roles and the intergenerational entanglement of the present, past, and future—in the context of encounters with difference and care. By writing letters as a way of acting on the world and situating themselves within things, they intend to open up new forms of knowledge production, moving away from medicalized and binary ways of studying (growing up in) families with a labelled family member.
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Toro Contreras, Samuel. "Relato de vida y análisis de la obra de un artista visual, hijo de ex presidiario político de la dictadura cívico-militar chilena." CALLE14: revista de investigación en el campo del arte 11, no. 19 (October 21, 2016): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.14483/udistrital.jour.c14.2016.2.a06.
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RELATO DE VIDA Y ANÁLISIS DE LA OBRA DE UN ARTISTA VISUAL, HIJO DE Ex PRESIDIARIO POLíTICO DE LA DICTADURA CíVICO-MILITAR CHILENARESUMEN El planteamiento del presente trabajo mostrará, a través de un diseño exploratorio-comprensivo de caso único, la influencia de la transmisión intergeneracional de memorias asociadas a la violencia política de la dictadura cívico-militar en la obra de un artista de la generación posdictatorial chilena. Mario Navarro, destacado artista visual chileno, hijo de un detenido político en la dictadura, fue el autor de este estudio. Se usó el relato de vida como técnica de producción de datos e imágenes de las obras entregadas por el artista, y se realizó un análisis narrativo de estos y observación formal de las obras visuales. Los principales resultados del estudio indican que parte de la elección de vida profesional y algunos de los resultados de obras visuales del artista contienen influencia intergeneracional indirecta de la experiencia de detención política del padre.PALABRAS CLAVEArte, memoria, transmisión y trauma psicosocial.ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND ANALYSIS OF A VISUAL ARTIST WORK, SON OF A POLITICAL Ex-CONVICT AT CHILEAN CIVIC-MILITARY DICTATORSHIP ABSTRACTThe artwork of Mario Navarro, who is a recognized postdictatorship Chilean visual artist and whose father was a political prisoner at the civic-military dictatorship, is presented in this study. Through a comprehensive exploratory unique case, this piece of work shows the influence of intergenerational transition of memories associated with political violence at the Chilean civicmilitary dictatorship. A life account and art creations made by the artist were used as data production technique, moreover a narrative analysis of these two items and formal observation of the visual pieces of work were also taken into consideration. The main results of the research show that part of the professional life choice and some of the artist’s visual works are considerably influenced by an indirect intergenerational political detention experience the artist’s father had to face.KEY WORDSArts, memory, transmission, and psychological trauma.ÑUGPAMANDA KAUSAIKUNA SUG RUNPA AMBRA KAASKA KAUI RUNA KASKA DICTARUDA KAADUR CHILEMANDAMAILLALLACHISKAKaipi kawachiku imasami kallariskakuna kachingapa, kausai ñugpamanda chasa mailla mailla kallaruku ruraikuna kaachispa allillakuna, chasallata jirú kauai kuna sug runa Mario Navarro suti, rigsiska kawadur Chilepe kausag, pai kami sug runaa wambra llapa iacha paimanda parlaska kawachispa uiachispa neku imasami kaska paipa taita chasallata munaku kawachinga.
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Turbine. "First Generation Feminist? Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on Politicisation and Finding a Home within Feminism." Genealogy 3, no. 2 (June 21, 2019): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3020033.
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In spite of the apparent rise in feminism, who gets to know about feminism is still fraughtand impartial. How then, do we come to find ‘a home’ in and for feminism when it has been absentfrom our formative politicisation? How comfortable is that home for working-class academics? Inthis paper, I reflect on my feminist genealogy—from growing up as a working-class girl in a smallScottish town in an area of deprivation to becoming a first generation feminist academic in a RussellGroup University in the UK. This paper builds on the wealth of research exploring the trajectoriesof working-class women within academia by engaging genealogy research to explore how onedevelops as a feminist within academia—which can also be a strange place for first generationacademics. As an undergraduate coming of age in the ‘post-feminist’ 1990s, access to the languageand politics of feminism was beyond my grasp. I came to feminism relatively late in my life andacademic career—it was in my doctoral research that I really became engaged academically and asa named political identity. I employ auto-ethnography in this paper and reflect on how our intimateothers are always implicated in our own stories. This allows me to highlight how inheritedexperiences, memories, and embodiments are key. Intergenerational learning can make us implicitlyfeminist before we learn the formal language of feminism. The stories I choose to tell and ‘memories’I invoke here are re-crafted and recalled in response to what frustrates me now. That young womenare still telling the same stories that I tell here.
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Ferraro, Eveljn. "Space and Relic in Frank Paci’s Black Madonna." Quaderni d'italianistica 39, no. 1 (May 9, 2019): 173–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/q.i..v39i1.32638.
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This essay investigates Frank Paci’s dominant themes of death and life in Black Madonna and the author’s use of relics to retrace post-migrant spaces. I examine his connections between immigrant and post-immigrant generations in the microcosm of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and the way he preserves memories of the past (family, work, religious practices) while refashioning an Italian regional identity from a deterritorialized position. My approach to the themes of death, life, Italianness, and gender relationships is shaped by Michel de Certeau’s theories of place and space. Relics are defined here as something that survives the passage of time––either at a specific location or across spatial movement––and is invested with a sense of devotion. My argument is that Paci’s writing is devotional insofar as it preserves the memory of immigrants by disseminating the text with different kinds of traces (e.g., human, behavioural, linguistic). In function, memories act as relics. However, Paci’s writing is ambivalent towards memory, since quests for emancipation are also forcefully voiced by the author as challenges to preservation. This tension is at the core of Black Madonna, where Italian immigrants, practices, and places are represented as outdated, dead, or doomed to disappear, and yet deserving recognition and affection. In my view, Paci’s writing is more compelling when the relic as “place” interacts with a narrative of practices (or operations) that defy stability and actualize “spaces.” I will refer to this as a narrative of mobilized relics. Relics are a valid analytical tool to investigate the ties with Italy and ethnicity in the passage from immigrants to post-immigrant generations, from one historical subject to another, both of which are liminally positioned between cultures. In this sense, Black Madonna’s exploration of an Italian-Canadian microcosm spurs further transnational investigations of contemporary Italian identity through the migrant intergenerational lens.
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Bronec. "Transmission of Collective Memory and Jewish Identity in Post-War Jewish Generations through War Souvenirs." Heritage 2, no. 3 (July 2, 2019): 1785–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2030109.
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The article includes a sample of testimonies and the results of sociological research on the life stories of Jews born in the aftermath of World War II in two countries, Czechoslovakia and Luxembourg. At that time, Czechoslovak Jews were living through the era of de-Stalinization and their narratives offer new insights into this segment of Jewish post-war history that differ from those of Jews living in liberal, democratic European states. The interviews explore how personal documents, photos, letters and souvenirs can help maintain personal memories in Jewish families and show how this varies from one generation to the next. My paper illustrates the importance of these small artifacts for the transmission of Jewish collective memory in post-war Jewish generations. The case study aims to answer the following research questions: What is the relationship between the Jewish post-war generation and its heirlooms? Who is in charge of maintaining Jewish family heirlooms within the family? Are there any intergenerational differences when it comes to keeping and maintaining family history? The study also aims to find out whether the political regime influences how Jewish objects are kept by Jewish families.
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Azarian-Ceccato, Natasha. "Reverberations of the Armenian Genocide." Narrative Inquiry 20, no. 1 (October 11, 2010): 106–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.20.1.06aza.
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Narrative research has not traditionally examined the intergenerational transmission and reverberation of narratives within ethnic communities, and yet it is through the chain of generations that voices of the past reverberate and testimonies endure which fuel and form present day notions of the past. This article is a call for and an example of the importance ethnographic investigation into communities of memories, for it is through community storytelling that records are set straight as a memorial for victims and survivors. This line of inquiry is pertinent to various communities throughout the world, as we come to see the role of language, and in particular, narrative in the formation of ideas and conflicts, as scholars such as Slyomovics, (1998) have pointed out. This research takes as its point of departure narrative renditions of the Armenian genocide recounted in both public and private venues by the great-grandchildren of genocide survivors in an ethnic enclave in Central California. In this diasporic community we see how communities of memory are formed in a space of mediation which links the new generation with the old, the present with its past as well as with its imagined communities (Anderson, 1983). Through examination of the linguistic reverberations of this historical and familial narrative, I ask what becomes of authorship when collected stories are salient enough to be included in one’s own personal history, and how these narrativizations contribute to one’s sense of self? These questions are answered both by linguistic analysis of pronouns and deixis, as well as through analysis of prevalent themes. The results of this research lend into the historical progression of memory through time by those who did not experience the trauma, but rather were witnesses by listening to the trauma of others.