Memory and Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara A Misztal (University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1320-1338 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764205277011 |
| OpenAlex | W1989294155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article reconstructs and evaluates prevalent assumptions in the literature about links between collective memory and democracy. There are widespread assertions that memory is important for democratic community to achieve its potential, avoid dangers of past crimes, and secure its continuation. These assertions assume collective memory as a condition for freedom, justice, and the stability of democratic order. This article considers these assumptions with equally popular counterpropositions, arguing that memory presents a threat to democratic community because it can undermine cohesion, increase the costs of cooperation, and cause moral damage to civil society by conflating political and ethnic or cultural boundaries. The relationship between memory and democracy is discussed, along with the intermediate notions of identity, trauma, and ritual. The article concludes that what matters for democracy's health is not social remembering per se but the way in which the past is called up and made present
Collective identity · Collective memory · Criminology · Democracy · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
The Constitution of Collective Memory in Virtual Game Worlds
Sacrificial Memory and Political Legitimacy in Postwar Italy
In the Wake of the Past
A right to memory and communication policy
Fungible Citizenship
Collective memories and professional ideals
George Floyd and cosmopolitan memory formation in online networks
History that splinters
Re-thinking memory and transitional justice
Collective memory and social media
From absent to present pasts
Difficult past, cultural trauma and national identity
Reframing the Past as a Cosmopolitan Memory
Policing Memory in Bosnia
Partilhar história(s)
Memory Brokers, Shameful Pasts, and Civil War Commemoration
The Moral and Political Burdens of Memory
Reconsidering the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ – memory rights and the right to memory in the new media era
The role of the internet in testimony
Memory, Pluralism and the Agony of Politics
Memory and Democratic Pluralism in the Baltic States – Rethinking the Relationship
In search of a democratic cultural “alternative”
Caught between 1945 and 1989
Explaining Prolonged Silences in Transitional Justice
Competing Historical Narratives
Memória na Justiça
Traversing the 'Particular' through the 'Universal
Collective Memory in a Global Age
The "Perfect Failure" of Communal Genocide Commemoration in Cambodia
The political economy of memory
Bitburg in moral and political perspective
Explorations in economic sociology
The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration
Contemporary Sociological Theory
The Presence of the Past
Identity in Democracy
The Ethics of Memory
Lives, laws, and language
The ethnic origins of nations
IX.—Essentially Contested Concepts
The Invention Of Tradition
Disturbing Memories
Present Past
On Collective Memory
Revisiting the Historians' Debate
Transition to Democracy
Nation and Commemoration
Must Eastern Europe follow the Latin American way
Social Theory
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Is Nationalism a Distinct Ideology
Transitions to Democracy
Coming to terms with the past. A framework for the study of justice in the transition to democracy
The problem of order
Frames of Remembrance
The rhetoric of justice
Communities of Memory
The Narcissism of Minor Differences
The Sacralization of Memory
Memory Unbound
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,76 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |