History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 2008

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 2008

Remembering Smyrna/Izmir: shared history, shared trauma.
September 22, 2008... This article uses the oral history narrative of an elderly Smyrniote/Izmirian woman born in 1915 to interpret memories of war and violence in the context of contemporary debates on history, memory and identity in the public sphere in Turkey. In...

Narrative, memory and history education in divided Cyprus: a comparison of schoolbooks on the "History of Cyprus".
September 22, 2008... Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot history schoolbooks adopted a similar model of ethnic nationalism focusing on the suffering of the Self and presenting an essentialist, unchanging view of national identity. However, the new books that recently...

Remembering empire/forgetting the colonies: accretions of memory and the limits of commemoration in a Lisbon neighborhood.
September 22, 2008... This essay presents a critical overview of memory sites found in the Belem neighborhood of Lisbon, which has long been a privileged space for the construction of monuments to the nation's five centuries of overseas expansion. In 1960, a replica...

Memories of repression and resistance: narratives of children institutionalized by Auxilio Social in Postwar Spain.
September 22, 2008... Auxilio Social became the main welfare institution in Franco's Spain in which poor women and children, mostly belonging to the "vanquished" in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), were assisted by a new class of social workers composed of...

Introduction: time, materiality, and the work of memory.
September 22, 2008... One of us (Yannis Hamilakis) recently returned from a field season of ethnographic work, as part of a large archaeological project in Greece related to the excavation of the Sanctuary of Poseidon on the island of Poros (ancient Kalaureia) in...

Archive-work: genealogies of loyalty in a Macedono-Bulgarian colony.
September 22, 2008... Through close study of a 1930s legal dispute within a Macedono-Bulgarian church congregation in Steelton, Pennsylvania, this article explores the importance of "archive-work" as a particular form of political activism. Archive-work is here...

Tradition and modernity revisited: existential memory work on a Greek Island.(Kalymnos, Greece)
September 22, 2008... How are notions of "tradition" and "modernity" deployed to express changes in people's everyday lives? I explore these issues through a consideration of discourses and practices concerning food, dress and home decoration on the island of...