Thesis (M.A.)--Cincinnati Christian University, 2008. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-157).

My research explores my Egyptian family’s migration from Egypt to Saudi Arabia and Canada. It examines the role of photography to document memories of family reunions, migration, and stories. The objective of my study is to foster dialogue and raise awareness about the lived experiences of an Egyptian family from the 1950s to contemporary times. The methodology used in this series is open-ended interviews and textual analysis with family members: my mother, father and maternal grandfather. My research aims to reconstruct the historical effects of migration and the lived experience of an Egyptian family in the diaspora. It looks into intergenerational psychological trauma, its several interfaces and role in familial relationships, and modernity's emergence in Egypt. I aim to explore transnational identities through storytelling and photography that capture historical and contemporary movements—the role of these movements in producing complex versions of identities, belonging and trauma. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

In the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, the Middle Ages provide several of the most important historical reference points for national identity. This thesis analyses how this period was given its significance. It studies the presentation of several medieval figures through historiography from their own lifetime to the present, how they entered collective memory and a national narrative of history, and how the symbolic values attributed to them shifted according to changing political needs. In addition, it identifies those figures that were forgotten, so as to explore the mechanisms of historiographical selection. The purported founder of Luxembourg is the tenth-century Count Sigefroid, who was (wrongly) regarded as the first ‘count of Luxembourg’ by the late sixteenth century. In his posthumous career he became the builder of the local castle and city, the creator of the country and father of the nation. He is often joined by his mythological fish-tailed wife Melusine, borrowed from a late medieval French roman that already hints at links to the rulers of Luxembourg. The two founders are linked to later themes through Countess Ermesinde. She was a thirteenth-century ruler, rediscovered by nineteenth-century liberals as an early precursor to their political ideals, while a group of Belgian Jesuits used her to foster a pilgrimage tradition. Historiography of the past two hundred years preferred her persona rather than her two husbands’ for creating a continuity within the different medieval dynasties, adding to their national character. Her descendant John of Bohemia was transformed quickly into the national hero par excellence. This process had its origin in late medieval literature where his ‘heroic’ death at the battle of Crécy is remembered. His tomb within the city of Luxembourg helped to keep him in local memory, while the loss of his remains to Prussia in the early nineteenth century created simmering discontent that lasted until their recovery in 1946. Interestingly, John stands for the pinnacle of a glorious age, whereas his successor Emperor Sigismund tended to embody the miserable decline of an era, despite having been endowed with many crowns and titles. This thesis borrows some of its theoretical framework from the study of lieux de mémoire, and makes use of a broad range of different sources, from historical writing to literature, visual art and popular gimmickry.

This study examines the issues of Transnistrian conflict, Transnistrian identity and Transnistrian statehood through the fields of historiography, economic development, language and educational politics, religion, Soviet ideology and the place of memory in two parts of the Republic of Moldova, Bessarabia and Transnistria. The results of this study reveal the influence of the above-listed spheres on identity in both regions, the significant role of the leadership of Transnistria and the Republic of Moldova in shaping peoples' opinion and strengthening the idea of Transnistrian statehood, and the existence of regional identity in Transnistria during a phase of transition.

In the theoretical part of this thesis are discussed concepts of collective memory created by Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora and Jan Assmann, the author considers them inspiring for the research about forming of collective identity. Case study is given to the South Bohemian town of Pisek and the changing of its identity in the second half of the 19th century. It gives an overview of available sources and detailed biographies of people, who were most important for the forming of local identity. By using the analysis of dictionary entries are recognized basic attributes of local identity and their various forms, focusing particularly on process of modernization. KEYWORDS City of Písek, local identity, collective memory, process of modernization.

Como docente de Língua Estrangeira (LE), a pergunta que surge é: como ensinar? Existe realmente um método mais eficaz? Kumaravadivelu (2003 e 2008) apresenta teorias sobre o pós-método, em que enfatiza a importância de não centralizar o ensino baseando-se em métodos, mas de acordo com as necessidades dos alunos e o contexto que estão inseridos. Para isso, o autor apresenta parâmetros de ensino, macroestreatégias e microestratégias. Com base em suas teorias, esta pesquisa foi elaborada como forma de colocar em prática seus pressupostos, para o ensino de Língua Italiana como LE. Primeiramente, foi analisada a história da cidade em que os alunos vivem, Cascavel, no Paraná. A cidade foi colonizada por descendentes de imigrantes italianos vindos de Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul e é possível perceber a influência desta imigração na cidade por meio das festas, alimentação e o estudo da Língua Italiana. A partir da análise desse contexto, percebeu-se a importância de considerar a história da cidade dentro da história de vida do aluno, ponderando suas memórias e a formação de sua identidade, visto que a identidade é construída na sociedade. Desta forma, foi explanada teorias sobre identidade e memória. Em seguida, foi feita análise de dois livros: Magari! e Nuovo Progetto 2. O objetivo foi encontrar atividades sobre memória, identidade e imigração; porém percebe-se que os tópicos são poucos trabalhados. Para finalizar a pesquisa, foram elaboradas atividades para o ensino de Língua Italiana como LE que abordem a imigração italiana para Cascavel, relacionando-as com memória e identidade, de acordo com os pressupostos do pós-método. O propósito é auxiliar docentes e pesquisadores mostrando-lhes um ponto de partida para trabalhar de forma a atender as necessidades dos alunos da região. / As a Foreign Language (FL) teacher, the question which arises is: how to teach? Is there a more effective method? Kumaravadivelu (2003 and 2008) presents theories about the Post method, and he emphasizes the importance of not centralizing the teaching based on methods, but according to the needs of the students and the context they are into. For this, the author presents parameters for teaching, macrostrategies and microstrategies. Based on his theories, this research was elaborated as a way to put into practice his assumptions, for the teaching of Italian as a FL. First of all, it was analyzed the story of the city which the students live, Cascavel, in Paraná. The city was colonized by descendants of Italian immigrants who came from Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and it is possible to notice the influence of this immigration in the city through feasts, food and the study of Italian Language. From the analyzes of this context, it was realized the importance of considering the story of the city inside the story of the students, pondering their memories and formation of the identities, insofar as the identity is built in society. Thus, it was explained theories about identity and memory. After that, it was made an analysis of the two books: Magari! and Nuovo Progetto 2. The objective was to find activities about memory, identity and immigration; nevertheless it is possible to notice the topics do not appear a lot. Finishing the research, it was elaborated activities to teach Italian Language as FL which talk about the Italian immigration to Cascavel, relating them with memory and identity, according with the assumptions of the Post Method. The purpose it is to help teachers and researchers showing them a starting point to work in a way to attend the needs of the students in the region.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:36:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandra Xavier de Campos Rebello.pdf: 1520195 bytes, checksum: 56fa4cf90f385a280ded3acea03af56b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-30 / This work analyzes as the Central Market of Goiânia, that one become in Cultural Patrimony of this city, objectifying, therefore, to elaborate a project for the revitalization of the Central Market, while cultural to be valued and preserved patrimony, either for the local community, either for the tourists. For this, is carried through a historical briefing of the city of Goiânia, capital of the Brazilian state of Goiás, analyzing the development of the state since the flags until the national Revolution of 1930, that, in turn, is focus as landmark of the history of Goiânia while, from which invested in the movement March for the West, essential for the construction of the city, analyzing the consequent sprouting of the Pioneering Nucleus of Goiânia, created under foundation of the city of Campinas/Goiás. It has, then, a boarding of the Central Market of Goiânia, passing for the questions of memory and goianiense identity. Focus some Brazilian markets, for, thus, analyzing the Central Market, since its history, its current crisis, arriving in the prominent project of its revitalization. For concretion of such project its methodology is presented, thus as its theoretical reference concerning patrimony and cultural tourism. With this, one expects as resulted the revitalization of cultural activities; bigger number of visits to the market; increase of vends e, as consequence, increase of the profits; new chances of job; improvement of the physical dependences; occupation of the third floor; recognition of the local population of the market as patrimony; improvement of the relation between the inhabitants and the tourists; improvement of the quality of the local tourist experience; improvement of the local management of the cultural patrimony; e stimulation in the conservation and preservation of the cultural inheritance through the local art, tradition and custom. / Este trabalho analisa como o Mercado Central de Goiânia transfigura-se em Patrimônio Cultural desta cidade, objetivando, pois, elaborar um projeto para a revitalização do Mercado Central, enquanto patrimônio cultural a ser valorizado e preservado, seja pela comunidade local, seja pelos turistas. Para tanto, é realizado um breve histórico da cidade de Goiânia, capital do estado brasileiro de Goiás, analisando o desenvolvimento do estado desde as bandeiras até a Revolução nacional de 1930, que, por sua vez, é focada enquanto marco da história de Goiânia, a partir da qual investiu-se no movimento Marcha para o Oeste, imprescindível para a construção do município, analisando o conseqüente surgimento do Núcleo Pioneiro de Goiânia, criado sob a égide da cidade de Campinas/Goiás. Há, então, uma abordagem do Mercado Central de Goiânia, perpassando pelas questões de memória e identidade goianiense. Enfoca-se alguns mercados brasileiros, para, assim, analisar o Mercado Central, desde sua história, sua crise atual, chegando no proeminente projeto de sua revitalização. Para concretização de tal projeto é apresentada sua metodologia, bem como seu referencial teórico acerca de patrimônio e turismo cultural. Com isso, espera-se como resultado a revitalização de atividades culturais; maior número de visitas ao mercado; aumento das vendas e, como conseqüência, aumento dos lucros; novas oportunidades de emprego; melhoramento das dependências físicas; ocupação do terceiro piso; reconhecimento da população local do mercado como patrimônio; melhoramento da relação entre os moradores e os turistas; melhoria da qualidade da experiência turística local; aprimoramento da gestão local do patrimônio cultural; e estímulo na conservação e preservação da herança cultural através da arte local, tradição e costume.

This thesis examines patterns of German memory and identity construction as reflected in historical debates around the Rosenstraße protest in 1943 and cultural representations of it since 1990. It positions them within the wider context of debates in Germany on resistance on the one hand and shifting conceptions of national identity on the other. It argues that although the increase in public interest in the protest may appear to be a consequence of unification and the ensuing shift in coming to terms with the past, it in fact precedes them. Drawing on the work in cultural memory theory of Maurice Halbwachs, Jan Assmann, Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and others, arguments about the social construction of memory and identity are employed to show how and why patterns of memory, attitudes and ideas about the Nazi past, as expressed through different media of memory, have shifted and how these are tied to conceptions of national identity. This thesis focuses first on debate amongst historians, before moving on to discuss popular history, biography, film and the different forms of memorialisation. It asks why the protest has become a more prominent feature of cultural memory since unification, and demonstrates that its increased currency is a product of trends in resistance historiography and in Holocaust discourses. It argues that cultural memories are multi-layered and developed in relation to one another. The interplay between these different media is therefore analysed, with particular attention given to who is involved in shaping memories of the protest and why, how these memories and surrounding debates have altered over time, and what this indicates about continuing impact of, and attitudes towards the past. This allows for a consideration of the multiple notions of national identity which these representations foster, and an exploration of how conceptions of identity influence what is remembered. The question is asked whether the Rosenstraße resistance narrative has, since the 1980s, facilitated the emergence of a more inclusive and a more nuanced remembering, particularly as this narrative highlights the complexities of opposition and attempts to integrate conceptions of Jewish and non-Jewish suffering, centring them within the one narrative. It asks whether these notions are juxtaposed, and whether either victimhood or German responsibility is relativised. The thesis explores how Germans’ relationship with Jews is reconfigured, how German-Jewish solidarity is foregrounded, who is represented as victim, and of what. At the same time, the extent to which a more hybrid sense of identity, one that transcends national and ethnic boundaries, is promoted through the representations of the Rosenstraße protest is also considered. Lastly, it is argued that the competing representations of events in Rosenstraße which are examined here exemplify the fraught, complex and politicised dynamics of Germany’s historical memory, which is characterised by tension between the wish for normalization and the desire to maintain a critical awareness of the past in which opposition may be recognised but accountability is not relativised. The thesis explores which view predominates and speculates whether this is likely to shift in the near future.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T18:13:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Osmar Ansbach.pdf: 3745301 bytes, checksum: ae5e2ae7bf80a0a3c086db36a53afc3a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-10 / This work aims to demonstrate the existence of a local identity related to the material and immaterial inheritance that has been built from the territorial configuration that the extinct Iguaçu River Waterway, in the State of Parana, Brazil, had provided for the organization of the space in question. It is analyzed the current range of this waterway, using preferentially the mnemonic references from the society involved by it. It is based on two key concepts from Cultural Geography: cultural inheritance and social memory. The spatial delimitation, that is a basis for this research, are the municipal districts of Porto Amazonas, São Mateus do Sul and União da Vitória, in the state of Paraná, and the municipal district of Porto União, in Santa Catarina, amounting 340 km of fluvial bed used by the steamboats. The period when Iguaçu River was navigated was important to the economy of both states, a time distinguished by strong financial flux, specially the cycles of maté and timber, that were both linked to steam transport, which propitiated the appearance of a territory with characteristics of its own, whose organization presents economical, social and cultural elements that have made it so peculiar. It inventoried the tangible inheritance of the extinct waterway in the four municipal districts studied, and performed interviews with their populations, with the aim of verify the representativity of the waterway in the memories of the inhabitants and of the former workers of the waterway. The study proposition for the territorial organization and the demonstration of the existence of a social identity related to cultural inheritance follows the branch of Cultural Geography, considering the feelings and ideas of a group about the space and its cultural manifestations, as derived from a specific activity that has left its legacy. / Este trabalho tem por objetivo demonstrar a existência de uma identidade local relacionada ao patrimônio material e imaterial, construído a partir da configuração territorial que a extinta Hidrovia do Rio Iguaçu, no Estado do Paraná, proporcionou na organização do espaço em questão. É analisado o espaço de abrangência da hidrovia na atualidade, utilizando-se preferencialmente as referências mnemônicas da sociedade envolvida. Baseia-se em dois conceitos chaves da Geografia Cultural: o patrimônio cultural e a memória social. A delimitação espacial, base para esta pesquisa, são os municípios paranaenses de Porto Amazonas, São Mateus do Sul e União da Vitória, e ainda, o município de Porto União em Santa Catarina, perfazendo um total de 340 km de leito fluvial utilizados pelos vapores. O período da navegação no Rio Iguaçu foi importante para a economia estadual, época distinta de intensa movimentação financeira, em especial o ciclo da erva-mate e da madeira, ambas atreladas ao transporte a vapor que proporcionou o surgimento de um território com características próprias, na qual a sua organização vem apresentar elementos econômicos, sociais e culturais que a tornaram singular. Foi Inventariado o patrimônio tangível da extinta hidrovia nos quatro municípios pesquisados e realizadas entrevistas com as populações, tendo como objetivo constatar a representatividade que a hidrovia possui na memória dos habitantes e ex-trabalhadores da hidrovia. A proposta de estudo da organização territorial e a demonstração da existência de uma identidade social vinculada ao patrimônio cultural, segue o ramo da Geografia Cultural ao considerar os sentimentos e as idéias de um grupo sobre o espaço e suas manifestações culturais advindas de uma atividade específica que deixou o seu legado.

A festa do Divino Espírito Santo de São Luiz do Paraitinga, estado de São Paulo, mantém, na atualidade, muitos elementos típicos da cultura popular, destacadamente a constituição de uma fortalecida identidade local, a presença da oralidade e uma memória pautada em padrões coletivos e elementos altamente simbólicos e agregadores. Através da análise da história desta festa foi possível perceber a grande capacidade de plasticidade e transformação da cultura popular, e deparar-se com novas possibilidades de interpretação tanto da história local, como do espaço das manifestações populares na sociedade contemporânea brasileira. / The festivity of the Holy Spirit at São Luiz do Paraitinga, in the state of São Paulo, keeps nowadays many typical elements of the popular culture, specially de constitution of a strong local identity, the presence of orality and a memory based upon collective patterns and elements highly symbolic and aggregative. By analyzing this festivity it was possible to notice the popular culture great malleability and capacity of transform itself, and face new possibilities of interpreting both local history and the place of the popular culture in the Brazilian contemporary society.