The Emergence of the ‘Dealing With the Past’ Agenda: Sociological Thoughts on its Negative Impact on the Ground

The Emergence of the ‘Dealing With the Past’ Agenda: Sociological Thoughts on its Negative Impact on the Ground

In this short piece, I trace the emergence of the ‘dealing with the past’ agenda which entered the public sphere from the 1970s, briefly describing how it has gradually disseminated worldwide. Consequently, the ‘dealing with the past’ approach, where remembering was intimately tied to a preventative...

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Main Author: Lea David
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Liverpool University Press 2020-08-01
Series:Modern Languages Open
Online Access:https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/321
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spelling doaj-ba01c6e6feaa48568d614d877ab09cd92020-11-25T02:53:01ZcatLiverpool University PressModern Languages Open2052-53972020-08-010110.3828/mlo.v0i0.321202The Emergence of the ‘Dealing With the Past’ Agenda: Sociological Thoughts on its Negative Impact on the GroundLea David0University College DublinIn this short piece, I trace the emergence of the ‘dealing with the past’ agenda which entered the public sphere from the 1970s, briefly describing how it has gradually disseminated worldwide. Consequently, the ‘dealing with the past’ approach, where remembering was intimately tied to a preventative vision of ‘never again!’, became deeply embedded in human rights-led memorialization processes around the world. However, though this approach gave voice to long-silenced historical injustices and mass human rights abuses from the past, the erroneous assumption that ‘proper remembrance’ can heal nations also produced numerous troubling ‘side-effects’: the application of Western(ized) medical diagnostic categories of mental illness; hierarchies of victimhood; and new social inequalities, which are briefly discussed in the second part of this article.https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/articles/321
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description In this short piece, I trace the emergence of the ‘dealing with the past’ agenda which entered the public sphere from the 1970s, briefly describing how it has gradually disseminated worldwide. Consequently, the ‘dealing with the past’ approach, where remembering was intimately tied to a preventative vision of ‘never again!’, became deeply embedded in human rights-led memorialization processes around the world. However, though this approach gave voice to long-silenced historical injustices and mass human rights abuses from the past, the erroneous assumption that ‘proper remembrance’ can heal nations also produced numerous troubling ‘side-effects’: the application of Western(ized) medical diagnostic categories of mental illness; hierarchies of victimhood; and new social inequalities, which are briefly discussed in the second part of this article.
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