ISBN:
9781529218695
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9781529218688
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 274 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Interpretive lenses in sociology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Interpreting contentious memory
DDC:
302
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Soziologie
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Abstract:
This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, war, nationalism, colonialism and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology - On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Interpreting Contentious Memories and Conflicts over the Past -- The social foundations of contentious memory -- Interpretive approaches to the contested past -- Overview of the book -- Notes -- References -- Part I Interpreting Memories in the Social Dynamics of Contention -- 2 On the Social Distribution of Soldiers' Memories: Normalization, Trauma, and Morality -- Introduction -- The story behind the study -- Close reflexive analysis: silences and managing emotions -- The absence of moral considerations -- Expanding the scope: between trauma and resilience -- The normalized trauma -- Silencing mechanisms -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Feminist Approaches to Studying Memory and Mass Atrocity -- Past silences and contemporary inequalities -- Integrating a feminist lens -- Including women and stories of sexual and gender-based violence -- Having participants guide research inquiries -- The importance of trust -- Analyzing silences -- Emotional labor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Mobilizing Memories: Remembrance as a Social Movement Tool in the Vieques Anti-Military Movement (1999-2004) -- Narratives for mobilization -- The Vieques Movement -- ¡Ni una bomba más!: a narrative of change and challenge -- Analyzing remembrance of the military presence -- The expropriations: beginning of new realities -- Soldiers versus civilians: the tangible presence -- The bombing: a living trauma -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.
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