Search for dissertations about: "Collective Memory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words Collective Memory.

  2. 1. A Mention to Those not Mentioned : Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008

    Author : Lior Becker; Tomislav Dulić; Lars M Andersson; Tim Cole; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Israel; USA; Holocaust memory; collective memory; Yizkor books; commemoration; remembrance; memory culture; Historia; History;

    Abstract : Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. READ MORE

  4. 2. Knowledge and Acknowledgement : The Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide

    Author : Vahagn Avedian; Forskarskolan i historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Armenian Genocide; 1915; politics of memory; identity; collective narratives; memory; history; Law and justice; reconciliation; Recognition; reparation; Responsibility;

    Abstract : How come that the Armenian genocide, a century old issue, is still a highly topical question, academic as well as political, in our days? My dissertation intends to follow the development of the Armenian question since WWI, with focus on the past half century, starting on the 50th commemoration day on April 24, 1965. The aim is to understand how the question has evolved during these years, identify the driving factors and the participating actors in the process of politics of memory. READ MORE

  5. 3. Promised Lands : Memory, Politics, and Palestinianness in Santiago de Chile

    Author : Siri Schwabe; Erik Olsson; Nefissa Naguib; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Chile; Palestinian diaspora; memory; politics; space and place; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

    Abstract : This study is a comprehensive attempt to grapple with diasporic Palestinianness in Santiago de Chile. Based on long-term fieldwork from 2013 to 2014 within Palestinian-Chilean networks, organizations, and places it explores how an inherently political Palestinianness is constituted, expressed and explored via memory on the one hand and processes related to space and place on the other. READ MORE

  6. 4. Reordering of Meaningful Worlds : Memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Post-Soviet Ukraine

    Author : Yuliya Yurchuk; David Gaunt; Barbara Törnquist-Plewa; Stefan Troebst; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ukraine; memory; Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists; OUN; Ukrainian Insurgent Army; UPA; Rivne; monuments; Volhynia; historical representations; reception of history; nationalism; nation-building; state-building; commemoration; narrative analysis; Klym Savur; Taras Bul ba-Borovet s; Hurby; Euromaidan; Orange Revolution; post-Soviet; post-colonial; reclamation; history-writing; difficult knowledge; remediation; premediation; myth; Second World War; Організація українських націоналістів; Українська Повстанська Армія; ОУН; УПА; пам ять; комеморація; пам ятник; Рівне; Волинь; рецепція історії; міф; Друга світова війна; minne; Organisationen för ukrainska nationalister; minneskulturen; myt; Ukrainska upprorsarmén; reception av monument; monument; problematisk kunskap; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; historia;

    Abstract : After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian society faced a new reality. The new reality involved consolidation and transformation of collective identities. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Memory of Meanings : The Images of Jewish-Catholic Relations in Interwar Lublin in Oral Histories

    Author : Magdalena Dziaczkowska; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish-Christian relationss; Polish-Jewish relations; memory; interreligious relations; oral history; lived religion; antisemitism; interwar; holocaust; Jewish-Catholic relations;

    Abstract : This work explores narratives of Jewish-Catholic relations in interwar Lublin, as recalled by its Jewish and Catholic inhabitants by the end of their lives. Thus, it concerns both memory and intergroup relations and seeks to understand the attitudes towards the religious Other. READ MORE