COLLECTIVE MEMORY

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
07 Collective Memory

HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS AND CONFLICTS ABOUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AS NATIONAL IDENTITIES.

Mario Carretero y  Miriam Kriger (2011)
In this paper, college students’ historical representations of their nation’s origin are studied. We compared specific quantitative answers about who the first inhabitants of Argentina were with more in depth qualitative answers about their nation’s political origin. In this respect, a conflict has been found in the way students present the official narrative
06 Collective Memory

NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN THE MAKING AND ALTERNATIVE PATHWAYS OF HISTORY EDUCATION

Mario Carretero, Floor van Alphen, and Cristian Parellada (2018)
History education strongly influences the construction of national identities through so-called myths of origin. Taught and subsequently appropriated by students these myths play an important role in most educational systems and practices. This chapter is concerned with how this happens. For this purpose a number of studies will be analyzed focusing on the interdisciplinary relation between a sociocultural framework and research in learning and representing history. 
05 Collective Memory


BETWEEN THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT AND LIGHTNESS OF THE PAST. BANAL SILENCE IN SPAIN’S POST-DICTATORSHIP MEMORY POLITICS.

Mario Carretero, Floor van Alphen, and Cristian Parellada (2018)
This paper explores the role of silence in Spain’s post-dictatorship memory politics. More specifically, the paper examines the forgotten Spanish colonial past in North Africa vis-à-vis the so-called pact of silence that accompanied Spain’s transition to democracy after the Franco dictatorship.
04 Collective Memory

EUROPEAN UNIFICATION AS LIVED MEMORY: SHARED AND DIVERSE REPRESENTATION IN TEXTBOOKS OF SIC COUNTRIES.

Inari SAKKI, Eemeli HAKOKONG, Ignacio BRESCO DE LUNA, et all
The present study explores shared and diverse narratives of the European unification process and asks whether or not a shared historical charter of European unification exists.
03 Collective Memory

IDENTITY AND OTHERNESS IN SCHOOL TEXTBOOK: A CASE STUDY ON THE REPRESENTATION OF AL_ANDALUS.

GUTMAN, Irina Rasskin & BRESCO DE LUNA, Ignacio.
The present paper features a study where we analyze how different forms of otherness -understood as the other side of identity- are articulated through the representation of Al-Andalus in a textbook of Social Sciences used in a secondary school in the Community of Madrid, Spain.
01 Memoria Colectiva

“THEY ARE NOT TRULY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE”: SOCIAL REPRESENTATION AND PREJUDICE AGAINST INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN ARGENTINA.

Alicia Barreiro -Joaquín Ungaretti- Edgardo Etchezahar – Cecilia Wainryb
This study analyzes the relations among social representations and prejudice against indigenous people in a small city, where the descendants of both military people and the European immigrants who arrived at the beginning of the 20th century.
02 Memoria Colectiva

POWER STRUGGLES IN THE REMEMBERING OF HISTORICAL INTERGROUP CONFLICT: HEGEMONIC AND COUNTER-NARRATIVES ABOUT THE ARGENTINE “CONQUEST OF THE DESERT”.

Alicia Barreiro – Cecilia Wainryb – Mario Carretero
In this chapter, we examine narratives of historical processes, collectively constructed, negotiated and transmitted in an effort to remember and make sense of past events involving intergroup conflicts, focusing on the constitutive relationships between hegemonic narratives and counter-narratives..