Eric Sangar

Valérie Rosoux

Anne Bazin

Emmanuelle Hébert

This volume suggests a model of collective memory that distinguishes between two conceptual logics of memory fragmentation: vertical fragmentation and horizontal fragmentation. It offers a series of case studies of conflict and post-conflict collective memory, shedding light on the ways various actors participate in the production, dissemination, and contestation of memory discourses. With attention to the characteristics of both vertical and horizontal memory fragmentation, the book addresses the plurality of diverging, and often conflicting, memory discourses that are produced within the public sphere of a given community. It analyzes the juxtaposition, tensions, and interactions between narratives produced beyond or below the central state, often transcending national boundaries. The book is structured according to the type of actors involved in a memory fragmentation process. It explores how states have been trying to produce and impose memory discourses on civil societies, sometimes even against the experiences of their own citizens, and how such efforts as well as backlash from actors below and beyond the state have led to horizontal and vertical memory fragmentation. Furthermore, it considers the attempts by states’ representatives to reassert control of national memory discourses and the subsequent resistances they face. As such, this volume will appeal to sociology and political science scholars interested in memory studies in post-conflict societies.

Uses of the Past in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings

Memory Fragmentation from Below and Beyond the State

Maéva Clément

This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the ‘emotional turn’ in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have yet to receive proper attention. Acknowledging the pluralityof ontological positions, concepts and theories about the role of emotions in world politics, this volume presents and discusses various ways to research emotions empirically. Based on concrete research projects, the chapters demonstrate how social-scientific and humanitiesoriented methodological approaches can be successfully adapted to the study of emotions in IR. The volume covers a diverse set of both well-established and innovative methods, including discourse analysis, ethnography, narrative, and visual analysis. Through a hands-on approach, each chapter sheds light on practical challenges and opportunities, as well as lessons learnt for future research. The volume is an invaluable resource for advanced graduate and postgraduate students as well as scholars interested in developing their own empirical research on the role of emotions.

Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn

Researching Emotions in International Relations

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Volkerrecht und Menschenrechte, Note: 1,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (Institut fur Politische Wissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Amerikanische Aussenpolitik, 28 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das amerikanische Verhaltnis zum Volkerrecht steht mehr denn je zur Diskussion. Jenseits aller Polemik, die bestimmten US-Regierungen Tendenzen zum "Unilateralismus" nachsagt, kann festgestellt werden, dass sich die amerikanische Sichtweise auf das Volkerrecht ambivalenter Natur ist. Der prinzipiellen Unterstutzung des Volkerrechts, das ein Pfeiler der internationalen Ordnung sein kann, steht in der amerikanischen Auffassung dessen moralische Zweckbindung und der unbedingte Vorrang der - demokratisch legitimierten - amerikanischen Verfassung gegenuber. Diese Ambivalenz, welche an der jeweiligen Anerkennung der unterschiedlichen Rechtsquellen des Volkerrechts nachweisbar ist, grundet vor allem auf den spezifischen kulturellen und institutionnellen Faktoren, die das historische Selbstverstandnis der USA insgesamt pragen."

Eric Sangar

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