Panel 3: How do Local Memories and Grassroots Mnemonic Actors Challenge National Grand Narratives?
Released Friday, 5th June 2020
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Panel 3: How do Local Memories and Grassroots Mnemonic Actors Challenge National Grand Narratives?
Panel 3: How do Local Memories and Grassroots Mnemonic Actors Challenge National Grand Narratives?
Friday, 5th June 2020
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Andreza de Souza Santos, Graham Dawson and Jocelyn Alexander give presentations the third panel. Chaired by Kathrin Bachleitner. Andreza de Souza Santos (University of Oxford), 'Inconvenient Narratives: Slavery recounted in Brazil’s former gold mines'Graham Dawson (University of Brighton), 'Grassroots oral history and the politics of ‘hegemonic memory’ on West Belfast interfaces after the Northern Ireland war'Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), 'Gukurahundi and the question of recognition in Zimbabwe'chaired by Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford).
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Hegemonic Narratives
Memory politics worldwide is often shaped by the dynamics of relations and tensions between hegemonic narratives, counter-memories and silent communities at the global, national and local levels. Transnational advocacy movements, international agents and organisations influence the application of terminologies and frameworks in which global hegemonic narratives operate. State actors influence and shape hegemonic narratives, silence others or deny their existence in order to legitimise their incumbency and state/nation-building efforts. Local actors – from civil society groups to individuals – often counter top-down efforts of hegemonic narratives by the creation of their own narratives, memories or by silence. In post-conflict and conflict societies the relations between different groups and actors advocating hegemonic narratives becomes all the more acute and tense as the social and political fabric is eroded and in flux by the conflict-generated transformative changes. How do we understand hegemonic narratives in post-war societies? What do we know about them? How can we conceptualise hegemonic narratives in research inquiry? What constitutes such narratives in societies emerging from conflicts or in the midst of conflict? What is their role in relation to other mnemonic practices such as silencing, forgetting, neglecting, amnesia, or denial? And if they are, in what way do they differ? This symposium seeks to discuss these and other questions using a large number of case studies that can speak to some aspects of memory politics and hegemonic narratives. The key aims of this day-long symposium are to:Discuss the dynamics of hegemonic narratives at local, national and global level with a special reference to post-conflict situations;Examine the various roles of actors, agents and institutions in shaping, organising, influencing, challenging and transforming memories and key narratives in (post-)conflict societies;Facilitate an interdisciplinarity discussion in memory and a cross-disciplinary debates about the roles of memory in post-war societies;Theorise and conceptualise different types, approaches to studies of memory, silence, forgetting and remembering; Discuss the various roles of victims, perpetrators and new conflict-engendered communities.Join Podchaser to...
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