The politics of memory in post-authoritarian transitions Volume two, Comparative analysis /

History is a powerful tool in the hands of politicians, and can be a destructive weapon, as power over the past is the power to decide who is a hero and who is a traitor. Tradition, the remembrance of ancestors, experiences of previous generations are keys that unlock the doors to citizens' min...

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Main Authors: Marszałek-Kawa, Joanna (Author), Ratke-Majewska, Anna (Author), Wawrzynski, Patryk (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
Edition:1st ed
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Research Project -- Chapter One -- The General Assumptions of the Project -- The Selection of Cases -- The Significance of the Project -- Chapter Two -- The Analysis of the Transitional Politics of Memory -- The Comparative Analysis of the Transitional Remembrance--Towards a General Model -- The Selection of Sources -- Chapter Three -- Identity in Theoretical Considerations -- Political Identity as an Element of Universal Human Identity -- The Politics of Memory -- Part Two: Comparative Analysis -- Chapter Four -- General Remarks -- The Relationships within the Research Categories -- Relationships between Research Categories -- The Relationships between the Categories and the Source, Course and Scale of the Transition -- The Relationships between the Categories and the Cause of Change -- The Relationships between the Categories and the Authoritarian Identity -- The Relationships between the Categories and the Democratic Identity -- Summary -- Chapter Five -- The Nature of the Transitional Government's Remembrance Policy -- Using Remembrance Narratives to Construct the New Political Identity -- Similarities and Differences in the Transitional Remembrance Policy -- The General Model of the Structure of Transitional Remembrance Policy -- Summary -- References -- Annex One -- Annex Two -- Annex Three -- Annex Four -- Annex Five -- Annex Six 
520 |a History is a powerful tool in the hands of politicians, and can be a destructive weapon, as power over the past is the power to decide who is a hero and who is a traitor. Tradition, the remembrance of ancestors, experiences of previous generations are keys that unlock the doors to citizens' minds, and allow certain ideas, visions and political programs to flourish. However, can history be a proper political weapon during democratization processes when the past is decisively divided from the present? Are the new order and society founded on the basis of some interpretation of the past, or, rather, are they founded only with reference to the imagined future of the nation? This book explores such questions through a detailed description of the use of remembrance policies during political transformations. It discusses how interpretations of the past served the realization of transitional objectives in countries as varied as Chile, Estonia, Georgia, Poland, South Africa and Spain. The book is a unique journey through different parts of the world, different cultures and different political systems, investigating how history was remembered and forgotten by certain democratic leaders. Individual chapters discuss how governments' remembrance policies were used to create a new citizen, to change a political culture, and to justify a vision of society promoted by new elites. They explain why some sore topics were avoided by politicians, and why sometimes there was no transitional justice or punishment of leaders of the authoritarian state. The book will be of interest to anyone wishing to explore policies of remembrance, democratization, and the role of memory in contemporary societies 
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