Humiliated silence multiculturalism, blame and the trope of 'moving on
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7213893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Waterton (0000-0002-1861-4567, Western Sydney University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 128-142 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-8360 • E-ISSN: 1479-8360 |
| Publisher | University of Leicester (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.29311/mas.v8i3.161 |
| OpenAlex | W2183617427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
The issue of slavery has received wide media attention in response to the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. Simultaneously, issues of multiculturalism and social exclusion have also been subject to tense debate. This paper aims to examine the rhetorical resources drawn upon at the juncture of these two areas of debate, particularly in terms of how the ‘slave trade’ and its abolition is understood, constructed and remembered. In order to examine how these issues are manifest, the paper utilizes critical discursive methodologies, which are applied to institutional and ‘official’ responses to the bicentenary of 1807. This data will be examined in terms of the discursive strategies drawn upon to actively absolve current generations from challenging the latent issues of power operative within modern British society
Aesthetics · Art · Blame · Literature · Multiculturalism · Political science · Silence · Trope (literature · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Australian History and Society · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Voices of Collective Remembering
Distortions of Collective Memory
Collective guilt
Creating a new discipline of memory studies
Usable Pasts, Staging Belongings
Excusing the inexcusable’
Talking the talk
Discourse and the Denial of Racism
Self-sufficient Arguments in Political Rhetoric
Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History
Challenged Histories and Collective Self-Concepts
Interpreting the Bicentenary in Britain
The Varied Colors of Slave Heritage in West Africa
The slippery paths of commemoration and Heritage tourism
Remembering Slave Trade Abolitions
Canada and the Multinational State
How the past weighs on the present
Seven types of forgetting
Reconfiguring the British' Seminars and Commemoration of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, January-March 2007, London
Reflections on the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade
Communities of Memory
Ontological Gerrymandering
Rethinking Difficult Pasts
The Sacralization of Memory
The Language of "Race" and Prejudice
The Narrative Organization of Collective Memory
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |