Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity

被引:1
作者
Kekesi, Zoltan [1 ,3 ,5 ]
Zombory, Mate [2 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Tech Univ Berlin, Berlin, Germany
[2] Hungarian Acad Sci, Budapest, Hungary
[3] UCL, Ctr Collect Violence Holocaust & Genocide Studies, London, England
[4] Eotvos Lorand Univ, Ctr Social Sci, Budapest, Hungary
[5] UCL, Inst Adv Studies, South Wing,Wilkins Bldg,Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, England
关键词
anti-capitalism; anti-colonialism; anti-imperialism; anti-racism; antisemitism; identity politics; Marxism; postwar memory; socialism;
D O I
10.1177/17506980231176040
中图分类号
G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 04 ;
摘要
Our article responds to the ongoing crisis of memory politics that has brought the problem of de-politicization of memory studies scholarship to the forefront. This reflexivity is manifested in the demand for theories that explicitly address the problems of politics and solidarity. A representative theory in this regard is Michael Rothberg's multidirectional memory that examines "the Holocaust in the age of decolonization" and offers a non-exclusive model of public remembering and reconciliation. While we acknowledge Rothberg's attempt to overcome the "competition paradigm" of contemporary memory, we argue that the model of multidirectional memory as a politico-ethical framework of solidarity ultimately fails because of its underlying social ontology and presentist-ahistorical method of interpretation. We give a critical analysis of his model while applying the same historical and empirical focus. By doing so, we show that the direct theoretical link between memory and solidarity is the outcome of a de-politicization of the historical record. Ultimately, we make a case for Leftist-antifascist internationalism, a paradigm he misidentified as multidirectional Holocaust memory.
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页码:1664 / 1683
页数:20
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