Beyond multidirectional memory
Opening pathways to politics and solidarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12905488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zoltán Kékesi (0000-0003-0478-2671, Technische Universität Berlin, corresponding author), Máté Zombory (0000-0002-3725-2071, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1664-1683 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-05 |
| 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 | 10.1177/17506980231176040 |
| OpenAlex | W4379388468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 40 |
Our article responds to the ongoing crisis of memory politics that has brought the problem of de-politicization of memory studies scholarship to the forefront. This reflexivity is manifested in the demand for theories that explicitly address the problems of politics and solidarity. A representative theory in this regard is Michael Rothberg’s multidirectional memory that examines “the Holocaust in the age of decolonization” and offers a non-exclusive model of public remembering and reconciliation. While we acknowledge Rothberg’s attempt to overcome the “competition paradigm” of contemporary memory, we argue that the model of multidirectional memory as a politico-ethical framework of solidarity ultimately fails because of its underlying social ontology and presentist-ahistorical method of interpretation. We give a critical analysis of his model while applying the same historical and empirical focus. By doing so, we show that the direct theoretical link between memory and solidarity is the outcome of a de-politicization of the historical record. Ultimately, we make a case for Leftist-antifascist internationalism, a paradigm he misidentified as multidirectional Holocaust memory
Collective memory · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Praxis · Presentism · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · The Holocaust · Transitional justice · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
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Marx at the Margins
The Past Can't Heal Us
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Remembering Social Movements
Ethnicity without groups
The Empire of Trauma
Marginal(ized) plurality
Antifascist memory revisited
On agonistic memory
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From Africa to Auschwitz
Against fascism, for racial equality
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From Louverture to Lenin
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Jean-Paul Sartre and the philosophy of négritude
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |