Memory in the shadow of a family history of resistance
A case study of the significance of collective memories for intergenerational memory in Austrian families
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905074 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Pohn-Lauggas (0000-0002-1725-5208, University of Göttingen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180-196 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698019849698 |
| OpenAlex | W2945032744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
Collective references are of crucial significance for the individual memory. This article discusses the formation and transformation of intergenerational memory in situations where a hegemonic national memory discourse provides the only available reference point. On the basis of a biographical and multigenerational single case study of one family, the article traces the constitution of an intergenerational memory which is marked by the fact that, in their remembering, the family members’ only reference point is an Austrian national memory that disowns resistance to Nazism and downplays the role of Austrians in Nazi crimes. The fact that family members have no access to an alternative collective memory that acknowledges the resistance has a crucial influence on the intergenerational memory: the role of resistance in the family history is depoliticized and dehistoricized, and the Nazis are relieved of responsibility for their actions. Along this empirical finding, the article discusses the significance of the entanglement and figuration of collective reference, individual memory and intergenerational memory
Collective memory · Constitution · Hegemony · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · The Holocaust · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology
Historische und familiale Generationenabfolge
Die Methodologie einer »objektiven Hermeneutik« und ihre allgemeine forschungslogische Bedeutuug in den Sozialwissenschaften
Communicative and Cultural Memory
Biographical Research
Das kulturelle Gedächtnis
After the Archive
Psychoanalyses of Children of Survivors From the Holocaust
Kultursoziologie
The Generation of Postmemory
Social memories
Collective Memory
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0.83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |