Battlegrounds of Memory and Justice

记忆与正义的战场

• 批准号: AH/I021981/1
• 负责人: Mercedes Camino Maroto
• 金额: $ 3.06万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI021981%2F1
• 关键词: Battlegrounds; Memory; Justice

Dynamics of Memories was established as an interdisciplinary research cluster of Lancaster University's Institute for Advanced Studies in 2008. The group's main aim is to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries in the study of the ways collective, cultural and social memories participate in the processes of dealing with a past of war and conflict, and the ways this inflects individual, national, regional and local identities. The group is shaped by a three-tiered structure of nine core members, and a number of associate and external partners. Our group now seeks to network extensively with a view to establish itself as a Research Centre for the Study of Memory in relation with war and conflict in the English North West. This centre would liaise closely with two recently-established centres (London and Warwick), as well as the editors of the new academic journal, Memory Studies, launched in 2008.The practical ways in which societies remember or reconstruct a past of which conflict, repression or war is central to our group. To study this, we have held a number of workshops (Memory and History, Dynamics of Memories, Memory and Justice, War, Poverty and Memory and The Uses of Memory in the Rise of Right-wing Extremism) and a seminar series. We organized this in 2008-10 with funds awarded from the Higher European Research Authority's Networking Scheme and Lancaster University. The group is currently strengthening its regional links with academics, museums, local NGOs, community officers and local branches of grassroots organisations and political parties. Furthering our network's activities will enable us to elucidate answers to theories that claim that memory is always individual. We will trace the processes between remembering and reconstructing memories in the social and political arena of various countries, addressing how memories become history when one segment of society wins over the ideological battle for identity. Thus, we will examine the roles played by cultural memories in the construction of a narrative that serves national, local or group identity. Our approaches will trace the transition between remembering and reconstructing memories or memorials in order to imagine or invent a sense of communal purpose, in the sense of those terms given by Benedict Anderson (1992) and Terence Ranger and Eric Hobsbawm (1983).In order to consolidate our work, and lay the bases for future collaborations, we seek funds to hold three workshops and a series of seminars during 2011-12. For these, we will invite contribution and participation from local and international academics and experts in the field, as well grassroots and other professional organizations working on social and political issues related to memorialisation of conflict, judicial impunity and transitional or restorative justice.The relevance of our topic is clearly demonstrated by the upsurge in studies on issues related to the uses of collective memory that often surface in the media. While post-conflict communities may be a more obvious presence, this is by no means restricted to those groups, as the long-lasting effects of social traumas are often invoked in a variety of contexts. Besides the actuality of Holocaust studies, the currency of memory studies can be seen in, for example, the BBC's use of personal memories in the reconstruction of World War II or the invocation of the Vietnam War in relation to Iraq and Afghanistan. Moreover, the access of working-class individuals, women and minorities to mainstream political life has also meant that autobiographies, memoirs and testimonies can no longer be excluded from a society's make up.Because of the obvious social, historical and political impact of our studies, there will be many opportunities in which to disseminate our work in the various forums where these issues have acquired a sense of urgency, especially, but not only, regarding human rights' violations and transitional justice.

记忆动力学是兰开斯特大学高级研究院于2008年成立的一个跨学科研究集群。该小组的主要目标是在研究集体、文化和社会记忆如何参与处理过去战争和冲突的过程中，以及如何影响个人、国家、区域和地方身份方面，跨越学科界限进行合作。该小组由九个核心成员和一些联系和外部合作伙伴组成的三层结构。我们的小组现在寻求广泛的网络，以期建立自己作为一个研究中心的记忆研究与战争和冲突在英国西北部。该中心将与最近成立的两个中心（伦敦和沃里克）以及2008年推出的新学术期刊《记忆研究》的编辑密切联系。为了研究这一点，我们举办了许多研讨会（记忆与历史、记忆的动态、记忆与正义、战争、贫困与记忆以及记忆在右翼极端主义崛起中的用途）和系列研讨会。我们在2008-10年组织了这个项目，资金来自欧洲高等研究机构的网络计划和兰开斯特大学。该小组目前正在加强与学术界、博物馆、当地非政府组织、社区官员以及基层组织和政党的地方分支机构的区域联系。进一步发展我们的网络活动将使我们能够阐明那些声称记忆总是个体的理论的答案。我们将追踪在不同国家的社会和政治竞技场中记忆和重建记忆之间的过程，解决当社会的一部分赢得了身份的意识形态之争时，记忆如何成为历史。因此，我们将研究文化记忆在构建服务于国家，地方或群体身份的叙事中所扮演的角色。我们的方法将追溯记忆和重建记忆或纪念物之间的过渡，以想象或发明一种共同目的感，在本尼迪克特安德森（1992）和特伦斯兰格和埃里克霍布斯鲍姆（1983）给出的术语的意义上。为了巩固我们的工作，并为未来的合作奠定基础，我们申请拨款，在2011-12年度举办三个工作坊和一系列研讨会。为此，我们将邀请该领域的本地和国际学者和专家，以及从事与纪念冲突有关的社会和政治问题的基层组织和其他专业组织，关于利用集体记忆的问题的研究激增，这清楚地表明了我们这一专题的相关性，媒体.虽然冲突后社区可能是一个更明显的存在，但这绝不限于这些群体，因为社会创伤的长期影响往往在各种情况下被援引。除了大屠杀研究的现状之外，记忆研究的流行还可以从BBC在重建第二次世界大战或援引与伊拉克和阿富汗有关的越南战争中使用个人记忆中看出。此外，工人阶级个人、妇女和少数民族进入主流政治生活也意味着自传、回忆录和证词不能再被排除在社会构成之外。由于我们的研究具有明显的社会、历史和政治影响，将有许多机会在这些问题具有紧迫感的各种论坛上传播我们的工作，特别是，但不仅仅是关于侵犯人权和过渡时期司法。