Mnemonic land war

Memory constellations through Lebanon and South Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12905341
AutoresMiranda Meyer (0000-0002-9697-6280, City University of New York), Stefan Norgaard (0000-0002-1902-2862, Columbia University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen15
Número6
Páginas1393-1405
Fecha de publicación2022-11-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17506980221133516
OpenAlexW4310525087
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas58

Although Lebanon and South Africa are often treated as exceptional cases, the use of geographic analogies like ‘bantustans’ and ‘Lebanonization’ signals their relevance to many other places. These analogies point to the recognition of a spatial mode of mnemonic war in which struggles over the past are also struggles over land. Such analogies signal recognition but also require forgetting: as narrative chronotopes, they are limiting. To look beyond these limits, we name this shared condition ‘mnemonic land war’ and trace its workings through territorialization, property regimes and planning in South Africa and Lebanon. Understanding these processes as memory-work allows us to see what the places analogized to Lebanon and South Africa share in their mnemonic land wars, and link them into a transnational memory constellation. Understanding this constellation can guide a comparative understanding of mnemonic war ‘on the ground’

Cognitive psychology · Collective memory · Constellation · Forgetting · Geography · Linguistics · Memory work · Mnemonic · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Psychology · South African History and Culture