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Journal articles on the topic "Amnesia and Oblivion"
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Potseluev, Sergey P. "On the Typology of Social Amnesia." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies 39, no. 3 (2023): 557–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.312.
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The purpose of the article is to clarify the concept of social amnesia, which often does not differ in modern research works from other manifestations of social forgetfulness. The author offers a general typology of this phenomenon, based on the conceptual distinctions introduced by T.Parsons and D.Easton. These refer to the difference between a social system and an actor, on the one hand, and the difference between a social group and grouping, on the other. Accordingly, the author identifies three types of social amnesia: systemic, structural, and actor one. The article draws attention to the difficulties of conceptualizing actor and structural amnesia, since they are often mixed with organized (prescribed) oblivion or the pragmatics of forgetting, complementing the process of memorization. To clarify these points, the author turns to the experience of studying the amnesic effects generated by the totalitarian organization of oblivion. To this end, the article analyzes the understanding of totalitarian amnesia in the artistic images of George Orwell, as well as in the concepts of Hannah Arendt that are consonant with them. The author emphasizes that the totalitarian “neuro-linguistic politics of memory” gives rise to amnesic effects regarding the past primarily in its living witnesses, and not only in future generations. Further, the author clarifies the concept of structural amnesia, which has received a contradictory interpretation in modern social sciences and humanities. In this regard, the article discusses the significant role of structural amnesia in the destruction but also in the formation of social identities. Based on the cases presented in the scientific studies to this topic, the author raises the question of the specifics of structural amnesia as an effect of social modernization and high mobility in the formation of national identities at micro- and macro-level.
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Debrauwere-Miller, Nathalie. "Équivoques de l'oubli après Vichy." French Politics, Culture & Society 41, no. 2 (2023): 48–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2023.410203.
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Abstract Through a reflection on the ambiguous facets of Holocaust oblivion that has lasted for generations, the article examines how the official politics of memory in France instrumentalized historical oblivion as an ideological tool. To this end, the essay analyzes Fabrice Humbert's 2009 novel, L'Origine de la violence, to examine the essential role of literature in pinpointing the dynamics of memory and forgetting while exploring the ambiguity of oblivion, pardon and reparation. The unveiled family secret is explored as an allegory of the cryptic national history that reflects the amnesia imposed after the Vichy regime (1940-1944) by the “resistancialisme” promulgated in the post-war period in France; amnesia decreed years later by President Georges Pompidou when he pardoned the French war criminal Paul Touvier in 1972. This politics of forgetting comforted a generation of citizens implicated in collaboration during WWII, resulting in conflicts with the younger generations, as portrayed in Humbert's text.
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Saporito, Paolo. "Cultural memory against institutionalised amnesia: the Togliatti amnesty and Antonioni’s I vinti." Modern Italy 23, no. 3 (2018): 299–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2018.18.
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This article studies post-war Italy’s forgetful attitude towards its Fascist past by interpreting a political measure, the Togliatti amnesty (1946), and 1950s film censorship as ‘institutionalised forms of (…) amnesia’ (Ricoeur 2004, 452). The amnesty, which erased the Fascists’ legal responsibility for war and political crimes, represented the first act of oblivion of the Republican political establishment, embodying a forgetful mindset that influenced Italian culture through institutional instruments like film censorship. In 1950s Italy, censorship acted as a further form of institutionalised amnesia aimed at erasing from films the traces of the compromising continuity between the Fascist past and the democratic present. The story of the making and unmaking of the Italian episode of I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni is a meaningful example of this dynamic. Producers and government commissioners censored the plot and changed it from a story about a neo-fascist militant to one about a young bourgeois who smuggles cigarettes. However, Antonioni resisted the institutional imposition to forget by choosing locations where the material dimension of the landscape still embodied the Fascist legacy of the country.
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Milheiro, Isabel, Sofia Rocha, and Álvaro Machado. "Falling (or Ascending) Into Oblivion: Transient Global Amnesia With Paragliding." Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 23, no. 4 (2011): E40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/jnp.23.4.jnpe40.
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Mateo Leivas, Lidia, and Zoé de Kerangat. "The limits of remembrance during the Spanish Transition: Questioning the ‘Pact of Oblivion’ through the analysis of a censored film and a mass-grave exhumation." Memory Studies 13, no. 6 (2018): 1144–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698018777019.
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The corpses of those who were defeated in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) first emerged in the public sphere during the country’s Transition to democracy (1973–1982). For many, the end of the dictatorship was an opportunity to come to terms with memories of the conflict through cultural and social practices. However, the memories of the defeated could not be retrieved. This state of amnesia became known as the ‘Pact of Oblivion’, a supposed tacit agreement that eventually became an assumed ‘historical truth’. In our view, no such pact of oblivion ever actually existed. We suggest that, although there were indeed initiatives of remembrance, these were contained. In this way, the so-called ‘Pact of Oblivion’ was more of an imposition than a ‘social contract’. To show this, we undertake a comparative analysis of two cases from very different fields: the documentary Rocío (1980) and a mass-grave exhumation in the small village of Casas de Don Pedro (1978). Both share clear similarities regarding the limits of remembrance during the Spanish Transition. They also indicate how subtle power relations and structural power mechanisms prevented memory from entering into the regime of visibility.
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Hafeli, Mary. "Forget This Article: On Scholarly Oblivion, Institutional Amnesia, and Erasure of Research History." Studies in Art Education 50, no. 4 (2009): 369–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393541.2009.11518782.
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Belov, Vladislav. "Responsibility and oblivion: Germany’s big business be tween Nazism and the social market economy." Scientific and Analytical Herald of IE RAS 44, no. 2 (2025): 7–18. https://doi.org/10.15211/vestnikieran22025718.
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This article examines the evolution of the role played by German big business in Nazi Germany and in the post-war Federal Republic through the lens of historical memory. It analyzes the mechanisms of corporate involvement in the consolidation of the totalitarian regime, the use of forced labour, and the militarization of the economy. Particular attention is given to the processes of denazification, amnesia in public and corporate memory, compensations to victims, and contemporary memory politics pursued by successor companies. The article highlights the paradox that, despite documented involvement in Nazi crimes, most companies still avoid institutional acknowledgment of guilt. In conclusion, the issue of moral responsibility of business toward society is raised in the context of renewed militarization of Germany’s Standort. The study seeks to address a gap in Russian economic historiography and emphasizes the need to integrate the economic dimension into discussions on the legacy of Nazism.
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Orzóy, Ágnes. "‘So Terribly Opaque’: Salvaging Memory in Three Hungarian Books about World War II." Comparative Critical Studies 14, no. 2-3 (2017): 289–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2017.0240.
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The three books discussed in this essay – Imre Kertész's Fatelessness, Teréz Rudnóy's Women Getting Free, and the wartime diary of Fanni Gyarmati, wife of Miklós Radnóti – all had to be salvaged from oblivion: they were suppressed, forgotten, or discovered a long time after they had been written. In this essay I will argue that, besides other factors, the reason for their mixed reception is partly related to the fact that they salvage memories that are hard to incorporate into cultural memory, ritualized by historiography and politics. I will also focus on how reading literary texts and diaries with a view to how they represent cultural memory may serve as an antidote to collective amnesia, by salvaging and bringing into play a variety of personal experiences – individual and collective – and fostering multidirectional memory.
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Slack, Jr., Edward. "Sinifying New Spain: Cathay's Influence on Colonial Mexico via the Nao de China." Journal of Chinese Overseas 5, no. 1 (2009): 5–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/179325409x434487.
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AbstractThe study of Asian migration to colonial Mexico via the nao de China — especially by Chinese and mestizos living in the Philippines — has been languishing in academic oblivion. This article reveals how transpacific relations between Manila and Acapulco profoundly affected the social, economic, religious, and political spheres of activity in New Spain. Aside from the challenges encountered by chinos acclimating to a Castilian race-based hierarchy, it also probes the reasons behind widespread social amnesia in the mid-to-late 18th century with respect to Mexico's Oriental heritage. Furthermore, this article contests accepted scholarly definitions of mestizaje (mixed-race heritage) that emphasize a purely Atlantic pedigree. Reconstructing the process of sinification in colonial Mexico is imperative to “reorienting” its history and chronologically repositioning studies on the Chinese diaspora in the Americas.
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Nourzhanov, Kirill. "From hero worship to organized oblivion: representations of the People's Front in Tajikistan's national memory." Nationalities Papers 45, no. 1 (2017): 140–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2016.1235143.
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The People's Front of Tajikistan (PFT), one of the parties to the country's civil war, was instrumental in bringing the government of President Emomali Rahmon to power. The article examines the official strategies of memorialization of the PFT from the early 1990s to the present. It discusses the emergence of a canon of the PFT heroes and martyrs and locates it within the nascent national mythology after independence. It argues that the maintenance of this canon was rendered impossible by the imperatives of consolidating presidential authority and securing national reconciliation following the 1997 peace deal. It concludes with an examination of the growing tension between the official line of historical amnesia on the one hand and resurgent social memory on the other. People in Tajikistan are increasingly interested in revisiting the events and protagonists of the war to develop a sense of the past, and remembering the PFT forms an essential part of their search for shared history and a sense of identity.
Books on the topic "Amnesia and Oblivion"
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Beiner, Guy. Forgetful Remembrance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749356.001.0001.
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What happens when a society attempts to obscure inconvenient episodes in its past? In 1798, Ulster Protestants—in particular Presbyterians—participated alongside Catholics in the failed republican rebellion of the United Irishmen. In subsequent years, communities in counties Antrim and Down that had been heavily involved in the insurrection reconciled with the newly formed United Kingdom and identified with unionism. As Protestant loyalists closed ranks in face of resurgent Catholic nationalism, with many joining the Orange Order, Presbyterians had a vested interest to consign their rebel past to oblivion. Uncovering a vernacular historiography, to be found in oral traditions and often-unnoticed local writings, Guy Beiner shows that recollections of the rebellion persisted under a public facade of forgetting. Beneath a culture of silencing and reticence, he finds muted traditions of forgetful remembrance. Beiner follows the dynamics of social forgetting for over two centuries, starting with anxieties of being forgotten that preceded the insurrection. He reveals how bitter memories of repression prevented a policy of amnesty from facilitating amnesia. Clandestine traditions of defiant remembrance were regenerated and transmitted over several generations, yet when commemoration emerged into the open, it was met with violent responses. Prohibitions on public remembrance of 1798 seemed to come to an end by the bicentennial year of 1998, with the signing of the peace agreement in Northern Ireland, however the ambiguity of memory continues into the current post-conflict era. Comparative references demonstrate the wider relevance of the historical study of social forgetting.
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Meyler, Bernadette. Theaters of Pardoning. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739330.001.0001.
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To address the roots of pardoning’s treatment in contemporary politics and uncover what new formulations of pardoning might contribute, this book examines the role of what it calls “theaters of pardoning”—a form of tragicomedy—in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England. Historically, shifts in the representation of pardoning tracked the transition from a more monarchical and judgment-focused to an increasingly parliamentary and legislative vision of sovereignty. On stage, a transformation surreptitiously took place from individual pardons of revenge to more sweeping pardons of revolution. The change can be traced from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure to later works like Philip Massinger’s The Bondman. In the political arena, the pardon correspondingly came to be envisioned in increasingly law-like terms, culminating in the idea of a general amnesty, or “Act of Oblivion,” implemented by the Restoration Parliament under King Charles II. The figuration of pardoning as lawgiving did not eliminate its connection with sovereignty but instead displaced sovereignty from the King onto Parliament. The link between pardoning and sovereignty has contributed to the suspicion that has more recently surrounded the exercise of pardoning. Only by breaking the connection between pardoning and sovereignty cemented in seventeenth-century England can we reinvigorate pardoning in the polity today.
Book chapters on the topic "Amnesia and Oblivion"
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Jacob Ramalho, Joana. "Amnesia and Oblivion." In Palgrave Gothic. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73628-5_7.
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AbstractExpanding the focus from obsessive re-membering to the inability to re-collect, this chapter takes as its main topic wilful and involuntary forgetting. The tension between the two emphasises the threshold existence of the protagonists and suggests death as the only way to cope with the challenges and pains of memory in a gothic context. In the light of neurologist Oliver Sacks’s research on amnesia and music, and psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist Endel Tulving’s work on human memory, I analyse Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Carné, 1951), which depicts a strange realm—the Land of Oblivion—whose inhabitants have all lost their memory. The close connection between music, memory, and nation which emerges here in the figure of an amnesic accordionist, begins my investigation into musical instruments as memory-objects, which continues in the next chapter. The accordion, which the hand’s touch brings to life, appears in this film as the only medium of remembering and thus of counteracting an otherwise thoroughly exilic existence. Juliette, a quietly disquieting film, offers failure as a solution to postwar, postmodern disenchantment and disenfranchisement, deploying a gothic aesthetic to portray a self-reflexive, somewhat satirical, and utterly despondent outlook on ordinary life in contemporary societies.
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Van Auken, Newell Ann. "Cultural Amnesia and Commentarial Retrofitting." In The Craft of Oblivion. SUNY Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781438493770-004.
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Van Auken, Newell Ann. "Cultural Amnesia and Commentarial Retrofitting:." In The Craft of Oblivion. State University of New York Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.18253261.6.
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Matthee, Rudi. "Conclusion." In Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197694718.003.0011.
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Abstract The conclusion sums up the various themes discussed in the book, arguing that, whereas the traditional Islamic Middle East was indeed capacious, willing to accommodate drinking so long as it did not disturb the social order, modern Muslim societies, whose members still engage in motivated reasoning to justify drinking, continue to struggle with the paradox of how far to go in censoring a commodity that is at once illicit and irrepressible. The “live and let live” mindset, the capacity for ambiguity that had marked premodern Muslim life got lost and became overwhelmed by full-fledged denial-cum hypocrisy, part willful amnesia, part oblivion.
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"Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca Year: 1774." In Historic Documents of the Middle East. Schlager Group Inc., 2024. https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844247.book-part-024.
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ART. I. From the present time all the hostilities and enmities which have hitherto prevailed shall cease for ever, and all hostile acts and enterprises committed on either side, whether by force of arms or in any other manner, shall be buried in an eternal oblivion, without vengeance being taken for them in any way whatever; but, on the contrary, there shall always be a perpetual, constant, and inviolable peace, as well by sea as by land. In like manner there shall be cultivated between the two High Contracting Parties, Her Majesty the Empress of all the Russias and His Highness, their successors and heirs, as well as between the two empires, their states, territories, subjects, and inhabitants, a sincere union and a perpetual and inviolable friendship, with a careful accomplishment and maintenance of these Articles; so that neither of the two parties shall, in future, undertake with respect to the other any hostile act or design whatsoever, either secretly or openly. And in consequence of the renewal of so sincere a friendship, the two Contracting Parties grant respectively an amnesty and general pardon to all such of their subjects, without distinction, who may have been guilty of any crime against one or other of the two Parties; delivering and setting at liberty those who are in the gallies or in prison; permitting all banished persons or exiles to return home, and promising to restore to them, after the peace, all the honours and property which they before enjoyed, and not to subject them, nor allow others to subject them, with impunity, to any insult, loss, or injury under any pretext whatsoever; but that each and every of them may live under the safeguard and protection of the laws and customs of his native country in the same manner as his native fellow countrymen.
Conference papers on the topic "Amnesia and Oblivion"
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Kosztyła, Aleksandra, Heitor Alvelos, and Pedro Cardoso. "Augmenting the Narratives: The Potential of Augmented Reality Counter-Sculptures." In 8th International Visual Methods Conference. AIJR Publisher, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/proceedings.168.22.
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While monuments have traditionally served as reminders of notable figures and events, their celebratory dimension introduces complexity as societies evolve and perspectives change. Contemporary debates on decolonization and cancel culture, in the pursuit of justice for the historically oppressed, frequently culminate in the removal or demolition of these landmarks. However, some have criticized it as a form of erasure of history, leading to oblivion. In this context, this article introduces a hypothesis: counter-sculptures, placed noninvasively via augmented reality (AR) technology in juxtaposition to the existing monuments, adding alternative or critical viewpoints on the events depicted by the original landmarks. The article draws inspiration from the discourse on history versus memory, placing these digital interventions as a bridge between amnesia and remembrance, erasure and representation. The article formulates a working definition of the term “counter-sculpture,” emphasizing its role as a complementary, rather than opposing, viewpoint to existing monuments, and explores its relationship with the existing term “counter-monument.” Furthermore, the article delves into their potential role in the debates surrounding decolonization and cancel culture. Lastly, it exemplifies this concept with a prospective intervention: the creation of an AR counter-sculpture of the literary character Velho do Restelo from “Os Lusiadas,” placed in proximity to the Monument of Discoveries in Lisbon, Portugal. In conclusion, this paper highlights AR counter-sculptures’ potential to contribute to the debates on decolonization and cancel culture, by providing a space for underrepresented voices, challenging dominant narratives embodied by existing monuments, thus aiding to reinterpret historical events in a more nuanced and equitable way. Through these digital additions, existing physical sculptures are preserved, while we advocate for a shift in the approach to public monuments from objects of celebration to objects of remembrance, inviting dialogue and exploration from diverse perspectives.