Essays about: "collective remembrance"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the words collective remembrance.

  1. 6. The memory of the Holocaust as a point of state ontological (in)security : A comparative discursive analysis of the United Kingdom and Poland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Joshua Bennett; [2020]
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    Abstract : This thesis utilises the context of European Holocaust memory to test differences within the existing literature of the theory of ‘ontological security’. The differences centre on questions of identity preservation in the face of threats to a states ‘sense of self’. READ MORE

  3. 7. Fashioning Socialism at Home : Exploring the smock-dress in Soviet-Estonia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Rasmus Olsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Women; Home; Smock-Dress; Soviet-Estonia; Nostalgia; Uniform; Phenomenon;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to highlight the smock-dress within the context of Soviet-Estonia during the post-war epoch, ca. 1950s until 1990s. Through Mauss’s socio-anthropological tripoint view, the concepts and identities of the smock-dress are studied from the angles of biology, sociology and psychology. READ MORE

  4. 8. Memorializing Babyn Yar : Politics of Memory and Commemoration of the Holocaust in Ukraine

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier

    Author : Galyna Kutsovska; [2019]
    Keywords : Holocaust in Ukraine; Babyn Yar; politics of memory and memorialization; collective memory; sites of memory; Europeanization of memory; politicization of memory; transnational memory; nation-building; Holodomor; OUN.;

    Abstract : Recently in the West, interest in the memory of the Holocaust considered as a commonly shared dark past has increased. In Ukraine the commemoration of the Holocaust is affected by the ongoing nation-building process, with a focus on the collective memories of the Holodomor (the Famine of 1932-1933) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). READ MORE

  5. 9. The Fields of Trans* Necropolitics: Trans Women‟s Narratives On the Vulnerabilities of Trans Death, Bereavement, Posthumous Challenges and Activism in Turkey

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Orhun Gündüz; [2017-11-09]
    Keywords : Necropolitics; trans feminist activism; collective remembrance; bereavement; transgender image; Turkey;

    Abstract : This study aims to bring forward the phenomenon of trans death, underscoring the challenges that trans women in İstanbul experience, endure and confront during the posthumous scenes of autopsy, funeral and burial. Departing from and developing the concept of trans necropolitics, I examine trans death in two explanatory layers. READ MORE

  6. 10. We will remember them : A history didactics study of First World War teaching in England through a teacher perspective

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Elina Jonsson; [2016]
    Keywords : History didactics; history teaching; the First World War; collective remembrance; historical consciousness;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study has been to research what is included in the First World War teaching in English compulsory school. The teaching of this historical event is performed in a context where the war is yearly commemorated and given attention in society at large in various ways. READ MORE