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Through a Glass, Darkly: Photography and Cultural Memory
The appearance of digital photography in the late twentieth century raised a significant challenge to the most powerful idea attached to photography in the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, that it was a kind of memory and hence the source of reliable historical data. Traditional or analogue photographs were assumed to be reliable records of the past simply by virtue of bein…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 111-132
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- 0037-783X
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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Collective Memory and Narrative Templates
An episode of social conflict between Russian and Estonian “mnemonic communities” is used as a framework for exploring issues of collective memory. In order to understand the strong Russian reaction to the Estonian decision to move a memorial statue, it is argued that the notion of “deep memory” is needed, a notion that is, in turn, grounded in the construct of a “narrative temp…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 133-156
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- 0037-783X
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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A Tale of Easter Ovens: Food and Collective Memory
This article considers the power of food as a vehicle for memory by exploring the ways that food crosses the personal and the collective, the individual and the social. It examines these questions through the lens of certain Easter practices on the island of Kalymnos, Greece, concerning the preparation of lamb. The ovens and pots used to prepare lamb are a marker of Kalymnian identity, bu…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 157-182
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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Creating Shared Memories in Conversation: Toward a Psychology of Collective M…
Collective memories are often formed through the conversations community members have with each other. The effectiveness of these conversations to transmit a memory across a community and to produce a shared and stable mnemonic representation is constrained by psychological factors. This essay examines the effects of speakers' retellings of past events (a) on listeners' memories and (b) o…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 183-216
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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A Tour of the Battleground: The Seven Circles of Pan-European Memory
The people we call Europeans include many millions of European Union citizens, the Swiss, the Ukrainians, the Turks, the Norwegians, the Croatians, the Serbs, and the Albanians. Do they share memories and a common sense of history? Indeed, should Europeans share memories? Each of the European nations has accumulated a stockpile of tales and myths that allow its citizens to act in solidari…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 217-236
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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The Work of Memory: Time, Identity, and Justice
In this essay, I argue that the political community’s identity and its sense of its own coherence as a responsible agent across time rest squarely on the work of collective memory. The protean volatility of the politics of memory reminds us that in our world (or perhaps it always and everywhere was so), memory is intertwined with power, interest and resistance precisely because it is so v…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 237-262
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Collateral Damage of History Education: National Socialism and the Holocaust …
History is not only on the curriculum, and it is not only in the subject of books, journal, radio and television progams, or public debates that explicitly deal with the past and with the question of how to remember it in an adequate way. History is also conveyed en passant. It is inscribed in the fabric of everyday life, in people's habits and routines, in things they live with and place…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 287-314
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- Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences
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Memory, Responsibility and Identity
An important role of memory, both individual and collective, is to remind us of what we owe to the past. To understand this role, we need to conceive memory not merely in cognitive terms, but also as what Nietzsche called “memory of the will.” It is this “conative” aspect of memory which explains the link between memory and identity. There still remain problems of how to explain h…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 263-286
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The Ciphered Transits of Collective Memory: Neo-Freudian Impressions
How do we explain consistencies in discourses about the past that transcend the different interests and experiences of their contributors? This paper explores the the problem of cultural transmission as it appears in Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism, in which Freud claims that that the residues of repressed pasts can be preserved in the life of the collectivity through means other tha…
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- Vol. 75, No. 1, Page 1-22
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Constructing the License to Operate: Internal Factors and Their Influence on …
Voluntary programs intended to improve corporate environmental practices have proliferated in recent years. Why some businesses choose to participate in such voluntary programs, while others do not, remains an open question. Recent work suggests that companies’ environmental practices, including their decisions to participate in voluntary programs, are shaped by a license to operate com…
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- Vol. 30, No. 1, Page 73-107
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- 0265-8240
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- Law & Policy
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History and geography of identifications related to resource conflicts and et…
Resource conflicts often intensify ethnic violence and vice versa. However, in specific cases situations can be more complex than they appear. To understand this phenomenon, this chapter takes incidents of violence in Northern Thailand as a point of departure to explain how the historical construction of ethnic identification is tied to the spatial division of highlands and lowlands. I ar…
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- Vol. 49, No. 1, Page 111-127
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- 1360-7456
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- Asia Pacific Viewpoint
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Foreign Direct Investment in the Caribbean
This article addresses the question of whether the Caribbean is particularly attractive or unattractive to foreign investors, and if it has specific characteristics that attract or deter FDI. An econometric analysis of data from 135 countries for 1980-2002 shows that the Caribbean does not suffer from low inflows of FDI; on the contrary, Caribbean countries receive more FDI than comparabl…
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- Vol. 26, No. 1, Page 79-89
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- 0950-6764
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- Development Policy Review
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Realistic yet humanitarian? The comprehensive plan of action and refugee poli…
The 1989 Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) has recently been described as a successful example of how to manage large protracted refugee flows. However, this article revisits the circumstances surrounding the CPA used to resolve the prolonged Indo-Chinese refugee crisis to highlight that part of its development was linked to the fact that Southeast Asian states refused to engage with pro…
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- Vol. 8, No. 2, Page 191-217
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- 1470-482X
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- International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
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Malaysia's 2005-2006 refugee stand-off with Thailand: a security culture anal…
In September of 2005, Malaysia–Thailand relations were stressed by an incident in which 131 Thai Muslims fled across the Southern Thai border to seek refuge in Malaysia. The Malaysian government initially refused to return these ‘asylum seekers,’ and eventually chose to internationalize the situation by calling on the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR). Malaysia's de…
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- Vol. 8, No. 2, Page 175-190
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- International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
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Azul y Oro: The Many Social Lives of a Football Jersey
This article focuses on a key incident - the takeover of the CA Boca Junior of Argentina football jersey by Nike, with a design that was perceived as altering the 'original' jersey - and the public debate it generated in terms of fashion, community and tradition. Using that incident as a catalyst I analyze its different ciscuits of fabrication, production and consumption, and show how the cir…
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- Vol. 25, No. 1, Page 49-76
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- 0263-2764
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- Theory, Culture & Society
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A Preliminary Evaluation of an Abstinence-Oriented Empowerment Program for Pu…
Objective: This article describes the process and outcomes of an abstinence-orientated empowerment program that was delivered to an adolescent multicultural population. Method: The study employed a time-limited pretest—posttest OXO design with an N of 130 drawn from youth in public schools from fifth grade to ninth grade. A paired-samples t test was utilized. Effect size was calculated …
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- Vol. 18, No. 3, Page 223-230
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- 1049-7315
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- Research on Social Work Practice
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How Too Little Can Give You a Little Too Much : Determining the Number of Hou…
Accurately assessing the number of household phone lines in random-digit dialed (RDD) surveys for use in weighting has become more complicated over time. This study evaluates phone line weighting by asking an in-depth battery of seven questions designed to measure the number of available land lines in the home more precisely. The results show that this weighting correction is not so simpl…
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- Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 114-124
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- 0033-362X
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- Public Opinion Quarterly
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Does "Yes or No" on the Telephone Mean the Same as "Check-All-That-Apply" on …
Recent experimental research has shown that respondents to forced-choice questions endorse significantly more options than respondents to check-all questions. This research has challenged the common assumption that these two question formats can be used interchangeably but has been limited to comparisons within a single survey mode. In this paper we use data from a 2004 random sample surv…
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- Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 103-113
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An Experiment on the Measurement of Political Knowledge in Surveys
In a series of articles, Mondak and colleagues argue that the conventional way of measuring political knowledge in surveys is flawed. Personality related "propensity to guess" underestimates the level of political knowledge in the population and distorts estimates of between group differences, when a DK alternative is offered. This has led Mondak to recommend the use of closed-ended items…
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- Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 90-102
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Social Desirability Effects and Support for a Female American President
Public opinion polls show consistently that a substantial portion of the American public would vote for a qualified female presidential candidate. Because of the controversial nature of such questions, however, the responses may suffer from social desirability effects. In other words, respondents may be purposely giving false answers as not to violate societal norms. Using an unobtrusive …
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- Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 76-89
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