Identity between Memory and Narrative: A Sociological Analysis Abstract of PhD thesis Mgr. Jakub Mlynář Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague 2016 Concepts of identity, memory and narrative are being sociologically employed, whether separately or in combination, but most often in relationship to specific research areas. The aim of my thesis is an explanation of mutual relationship of identity, memory and narrative as well as their meanings in social action. I am taking into account the controversial features of these phenomena, which have been recently discussed, and I offer a compromise theoretical solution. Mutual relationship of identity, memory and narrative are followed in detailed case-study, analysing a selection of oral history interviews from USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, with an inspiration from narrative analysis and membership categorization analysis. The oral history interview is a social situation, in which the general interactional mechanisms related to memory, identity and narrative stand out in focused shape. Narrative expression of identities in life stories of Holocaust survivors is mainly related to the categories of national, state, political and religious identity, reflected explicitly and implicitly during the interviews. Specific...

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2003-03-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:22:03Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_act_dr_assis.pdf: 677283 bytes, checksum: 2acf15ba085f935eb343791f52215f9e (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este trabalho se fundamenta na importância crescente das imagens no século vinte, as quais podem ser entendidas em duplo sentido: como estimulantes dos olhares e como aparências investidas de potencial comunicativo. É privilegiado o uso que a mídia efetuou do universo do olhar. As imagens, em sua ambigüidade, são instrumentos adequados ao uso publicitário em um século em que, paulatinamente, a notícia e a informação são consideradas mercadorias pelos grandes grupos de comunicação. As fontes da pesquisa são as capas de revistas brasileiras de sucesso de mercado. O mercado da informação está fundamentalmente ligado ao exercício da política, eis porque o período de análise corresponde ao final da década de sessenta (início da censura governamental à imprensa) e da década de oitenta (primeira eleição direta para presidente da República após o fim da censura), sendo lícito questionar de que forma a comunicação foi empreendida enquanto entrávamos e saíamos da ditadura militar. As capas são signos do funcionamento da chamada grande imprensa e, ao mesmo tempo, são signos de um olhar que se estrutura no decorrer do século: olhar que busca informação rápida e concisa. Estratégias comuns utilizadas nas imagens de capa são analisadas, como o uso dos códigos das cores e das expressões corporais, assim como os temas que tiveram destaque nas capas das revistas e que mostram a constituição de sentidos propostos à massa de fatos que os próprios meios de comunicação oferecem. As sínteses compostas em imagens estabelecem pautas de discussões, tornando-as importantes e exercendo um poder excludente. As capas das... / The thesis is based on the increasing importance of pictures in the 20th century. Pictures may be understood as (1) gaze stimulating and as (2) appearances charged with communicative potentiality. The use that the media make of the gaze is extremely conspicuous. Even in their ambiguity, pictures are veritable publicity instruments in a century during which news and information became gradually commercial goods in the hands of great communication groups. Our research sources are covers of best selling Brazilian magazines. Since the information market is intimately linked to politics and the analyzed period ranges from the late 60s (the starting point of press censorship by the government) to the late 80s (the first true election for the presidency of Brazil after censorship), it is important to problematize the communication theme as Brazil alternated from censorship and dictatorship to democracy. Magazine covers are performance signs of the big press and, at the same time, of the gaze structuring itself throughout the century: the gaze that seeks precise and fast information. Common strategies in magazine covers, uses of color, body expression codes, underlined themes which show the constitution of meanings suggested to the great amount of photos by the same communication media, are analyzed. Picture-composed synthesis establishes discussions, giving great importance to pictures since they exercise an excluding stance. Magazine covers allure the magazines' target public, or consumers. Beneath the magazines' syntheses lie... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo compreender a maneira como o dramaturgo Ariano Suassuna constrói, por meio de sua produção teatral, uma certa memória que, no limite, é sua, mas é também partilhada por um código social particular: as brigas de família - e a vingança - no contexto do nordeste brasileiro. Para tanto, escolhemos as peças de Ariano Suassuna escritas entre 1947 e 1960, a fim de explorar o modo como ele seleciona e encadeia fatos, lembranças e valores criando, desse modo, a história de sua família. Essa mesma construção é observada também em seus artigos, publicados no periódico recifense Jornal da Semana, entre 1972 e 1974. Tanto as peças como os artigos evidenciam, assim, como Ariano Suassuna ancora-se no interior de sua família e, ao mesmo tempo, reforça valores e tradições que iriam além de seu próprio núcleo privado e intimista. O assassinato de seu pai, tal como as represálias que sua família sofreu nos anos 30, teriam marcado o dramaturgo a tal ponto que ficção e não ficção, objeto e criatura confundem-se de maneira intrincada e pouco óbvia. A lógica privada da briga de família pode, desse modo, ser reconhecida nas opções artísticas assumidas pelo escritor, mesmo depois da aparente resolução da \"intriga\" que envolveu os Suassuna, Dantas e Pessoa pelo controle do Estado da Paraíba em 1930. Sua obra é um diálogo entre biografia e criação; fato e ficção. O resultado é a seleção de um certo nordeste, de uma determinada cultura popular, de um universo povoado por personagens espertos e de uma noção particular de \"pureza\" e identidade. / This dissertation aims towards understanding the constructions of playwright Ariano Suassuna\'s theatrical production of a memory that in its limit is his though it is also shared by a particular social code: family issues - and revenge - plotted in the Northeast of Brazil. To approach this object, plays of Ariano Suassuna written between 1947 and 1960 were chosen in order to explore the way he selects and chains facts, memories and values creating, thereby, the history of his family. This very construction can also be observed in his articles published in a State of Pernambucos\' periodic, the Jornal da Semana between the years of 1972 and 1974. Both his plays and articles display how Ariano Suassuna anchors himself in the depths of his family and, at the same time, reinforces values and traditions that go beyond their own private and intimate nucleus. The murder of his father as well as the reprisals suffered by his family in the 1930\'s scarred the playwright in such a way that fiction and non-fiction, object and creature lose themselves in a non-obvious, complicated way. The private logic of family matters can be acknowledged in the artistic options taken by the writer even after the apparent resolution of the \"intrigue\" involving the Suassunas, Dantas and Pessoas for the control of the State of Paraíba in the 1930\'s. The result is the selection of a certain Northeast, of a certain popular culture, of a universe populated by clever characters and a particular sense of \"purity\" and identity.

The Pretoria Art Museum opened its doors to the public on May 20, 1964. At that time the Johannesburg Art Gallery had already been established in 1910 and the South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 1895. The realization of the Pretoria Art Museum was an accomplishment of the City’s clerk’s push for the city to have a museum of its own that would enable it to showcase works that the city owned which until then had been confined to its administrative offices and the City Hall. This nucleus collection which had been inaccessible to the general public, consisted of South African Old Masters and 17 Century Dutch art. On 15 April 1964, about a month before the museum opened officially to the public, the Selection Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Art Museum instituted by the City Council of Pretoria met to deliberate on how the collection of the museum was to be built in order to expand this nucleus collection further.The result was a series of eight resolutions that favoured the acquisition of South African Old Masters and The Hague School (19thcentury Netherlandish art). In the minutes of that meeting no mention was made of the acquisition of 20thcentury South African black artists. By 1994 about 2 404 units of artworks by white artists had been acquired in contrast to about 86 units of artworks by black artists. The eight resolutions tabulated by the board, can be taken as an informal policy thatthe museum adopted during the thirty-year period of its existence from 1964 to 1994 to acquire artworks. No formal acquisition policy existed as a part of the museum’s acquisition strategy during that three decade period. Fortunately, as the collection grew, there were deviations in the ‘acquisition strategy’ because works by black artists, though collected at a far lesser frequency than those by white artists, found their place in the collection. This research paper is a homage to the contributions of 20thcentury South African black artists’ contributions to the history of South African art. / Dissertation (MSocSci)--University of Pretoria, 2020. / Historical and Heritage Studies / MSocSci / Unrestricted

THE SCREEN OF LAUGHTER AND REMEMBERING Collective Memory and Representations of State Socialism in Czech Cinematography This dissertation has very little to say about state socialism. Rather, it is a work about the memory of state socialism in the post-socialist Czech Republic, about the ways in which state socialism can be remembered in the present. From the perspective of collective memory, "it is not only the ancien regime that produced revolution, but in some respect the revolution produced the ancient regime, giving it a shape, a sense of closure" (Boym 2001, xvi). And there are indeed many, often conflicted modes of remembering this particular past. Françoise Mayer, for example, has identified several distinct types of remembering the "communism" in Czech society (Mayer, 2009). And her list is by no means exhaustive. At the centre of this treatise is the Czech post-socialist cinema. My dissertation thesis was prompted by the question of how cinematic representations bear on the collective memory of state socialism in the Czech Republic. . In the first chapter, I explore how cinema represents the past in comparison to historiography. In my work, it is evident that Czech cinema does not follow the epistemological criterion of referentiality that binds historians. A more important observation - and one...

CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of International Studies Modern History PhD. Thesis POLITICS, HISTORY, MEMORY: POLITIC USES OF THE PAST IN FRANCE SINCE 1990s David EMLER Abstract The PhD. thesis analyzes the triangle of mutual influences between politics, history and memory. The introduction brings interpretations of the most important French concepts of memory (Halbwachs, Nora, Ricœur). The content is divided into three chapters, analyzing the mutual interactions of politics and history (so-called "memory laws" and reactions of historians), influences between memory and politics (uses of memory in presidential speeches), and mutual effects between history and memory (development of French historiography of contemporary history).

This thesis examines the state-sponsored rise of local patriotism in the post-1961 period, interpreting this as part of the effort to strengthen popular support for and the legitimacy of the Soviet regime during the second phase of de-Stalinization. It shifts the analytical focus away from the Secret Speech of 1956, the time of Khrushchev’s full-scale assault on Stalin and his legacy, to the Twenty-Second Party Congress of 1961, the inauguration of a utopian and pioneering plan to build Communism by 1980. The thesis considers how this famously forward-looking programme gave rise to an institutionalized retrospectivism as Soviet policy makers turned to the past to mobilize popular support for socialist construction. It examines how this process played out in the Russian North West, where Soviet citizens were encouraged to turn inwards to examine their local history and traditions, and to reread these through the lens of Soviet socialism. The thesis takes as a case study the towns of Novgorod, Pskov, and Vologda, where the state-sponsored regeneration of local traditions significantly impacted on the self-perception of local communities. In the first part, I look at the strategies for representing and displaying local culture in pubic institutions: the textual treatment and symbolic ordering of urban space in local tourist guides; the heritage movement and the attribution of cultural value to certain objects from the local landscape; and the primary focuses of the exhibitive 'gaze' in local museums. The second part of the thesis shifts the focus from institutionalized culture to popular culture, examining the informal practices and oral traditions that exist alongside the authoritative discourses of social identity in the post-Soviet period. The popular interpretation of public sculpture, the collective imagination of urban space, and the 'common knowledge' of the past as it is articulated in oral narratives are the focuses of discussion.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T21:16:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente tese analisa silêncios e reinvenções pomeranas na Serra do Tapes, Rio Grande do Sul, em relação à opressão das instituições formativas. As grandes linhas teóricas que se entrecruzam são: Educação, História e Memória. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, de cunho exploratório, cuja orientação principal, em termos metodológicos, é a etnografia. Nesse sentido, a coleta de dados foi constituída de forma complexa e plural, passando pelas técnicas: levantamento bibliográfico, análise documental, participação pesquisante, entrevistas, conversas informais, rodas de diálogos, produção e análise de fotografias e inventários. A imigração pomerana no sul do Rio Grande do Sul diferencia-se de modo singular, em relação à dos outros grupos imigrantes (alemães), em função das conjunturas históricas, constitutivas dos pomeranos e do processo de isolamento e silenciamentos, vividos no sul do Brasil. Além disso, o silêncio da cultura pomerana, no bojo da cultura local, se dá sob as abas do poder: religioso, escolar, / The purpose of this thesis is to examine Pomeranian silences and reinventions in the area known as Serra do Tapes, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, regarding oppression by educational institutions. The major theoretical lines are Education, History and Memory. This is a qualitative, exploratory study whose core methodological orientation is ethnography. Therefore, data were collected in a plural and complex fashion, using the following techniques: bibliographical review, document analysis, research-based participation, interviews, informal conversations, dialog rounds, production and analysis of photographs and inventories. Pomeranian immigration to southern Rio Grande do Sul is uniquely different from that by the other immigrant groups (Germans) due to the historical circumstances constitutive of Pomeranians and the process of isolation and silence they experienced in the area. Furthermore, the silence of Pomeranian culture within local culture takes place under the veil of power, whether it is related to religion

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:32:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Patricia Pereira Xavier.pdf: 1331523 bytes, checksum: 12fd3df400fb614d80e71b4a608d7ac5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Ceará was the first province to free its captives in 1884, four years before the Lei Áurea (Abolicionist law), for this reason it received the epithet of Land of the light . Francisco José do Nascimento, known as Dragon of the sea , entered the written history of Ceará as the fisherman who would have lead his fellowmen in 1881, so that his rafts would not transport the slaves that would be sent to the farms in the south, in the episode that became konwn as the fishermen s strike. The goal of this study is to understand how the memory of Dragão do Mar was built, between the period of the celebrations of fifty years of abolition in 1934 until the release of the book A hero without a pedestal by Roberto Átila do Amaral Vieira, published in 1958 / A província cearense foi a primeira a libertar seus cativos em 1884, quatro anos antes da Lei Áurea. Por esse motivo, recebeu o epíteto de Terra da Luz . Francisco José do Nascimento, conhecido como Dragão do Mar, entrou para a escrita da história do Ceará como o jangadeiro que teria liderado seus companheiros em 1881, fazendo com que suas embarcações não transportassem os escravos que seriam enviados para as fazendas no sul, no episódio que ficou conhecido como a greve dos jangadeiros. O objetivo deste estudo é entender de que forma foi construída a memória sobre o Dragão do Mar no período compreendido entre as comemorações do cinquentenário da abolição, em 1934, até a divulgação do livro Um herói sem pedestal, de Roberto Átila do Amaral Vieira, publicado em 1958

Orientador: Zélia Lopes da Silva / Banca: Antonio Celso Ferreira / Banca: Norval Baitello Junior / Banca: Eda Maria Goes / Banca: Maria Teresa Santos Cunha / Resumo: Este trabalho se fundamenta na importância crescente das imagens no século vinte, as quais podem ser entendidas em duplo sentido: como estimulantes dos olhares e como aparências investidas de potencial comunicativo. É privilegiado o uso que a mídia efetuou do universo do olhar. As imagens, em sua ambigüidade, são instrumentos adequados ao uso publicitário em um século em que, paulatinamente, a notícia e a informação são consideradas mercadorias pelos grandes grupos de comunicação. As fontes da pesquisa são as capas de revistas brasileiras de sucesso de mercado. O mercado da informação está fundamentalmente ligado ao exercício da política, eis porque o período de análise corresponde ao final da década de sessenta (início da censura governamental à imprensa) e da década de oitenta (primeira eleição direta para presidente da República após o fim da censura), sendo lícito questionar de que forma a comunicação foi empreendida enquanto entrávamos e saíamos da ditadura militar. As capas são signos do funcionamento da chamada grande imprensa e, ao mesmo tempo, são signos de um olhar que se estrutura no decorrer do século: olhar que busca informação rápida e concisa. Estratégias comuns utilizadas nas imagens de capa são analisadas, como o uso dos códigos das cores e das expressões corporais, assim como os temas que tiveram destaque nas capas das revistas e que mostram a constituição de sentidos propostos à massa de fatos que os próprios meios de comunicação oferecem. As sínteses compostas em imagens estabelecem pautas de discussões, tornando-as importantes e exercendo um poder excludente. As capas das... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The thesis is based on the increasing importance of pictures in the 20th century. Pictures may be understood as (1) gaze stimulating and as (2) appearances charged with communicative potentiality. The use that the media make of the gaze is extremely conspicuous. Even in their ambiguity, pictures are veritable publicity instruments in a century during which news and information became gradually commercial goods in the hands of great communication groups. Our research sources are covers of best selling Brazilian magazines. Since the information market is intimately linked to politics and the analyzed period ranges from the late 60s (the starting point of press censorship by the government) to the late 80s (the first true election for the presidency of Brazil after censorship), it is important to problematize the communication theme as Brazil alternated from censorship and dictatorship to democracy. Magazine covers are performance signs of the big press and, at the same time, of the gaze structuring itself throughout the century: the gaze that seeks precise and fast information. Common strategies in magazine covers, uses of color, body expression codes, underlined themes which show the constitution of meanings suggested to the great amount of photos by the same communication media, are analyzed. Picture-composed synthesis establishes discussions, giving great importance to pictures since they exercise an excluding stance. Magazine covers allure the magazines' target public, or consumers. Beneath the magazines' syntheses lie... (Complete abstract, click electronic access below) / Doutor