Memory Politics and Collective Identities

In this episode, Awa and Ellen discuss European identity building and memory politics, highlighting how national narratives shape collective memory. They emphasise the selective remembrance of historical events, and its impact on national identities. Together, they examine the silencing of racialised people’s histories and experiences within discourse on national identity and how this, in turn, plays a role in the rise of xenophobia and far-right ideologies. 

REFERENCES

Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. University of Chicago press, 2020.

Lind, Jennifer. “Memory, Apology, and International Reconciliation.” Asia-Pacific Journal 6, no. 11 (2008): e21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1557466008007936.

Rafael, Vicente L. The promise of the foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines. Duke University Press, 2005.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon Press, 2015.

JINGLE

“Niamey Nights”, Bamako Bae, Shutterstock, ⁠⁠https://www.shutterstock.com/music/track-1221135-niamey-nights⁠

CONTRIBUTORS

Host: Awa Sow

Guest: Ellen Sow

Edited by: Awa Sow