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Collective Memories and Community Interventions: Peace Building in Northern Ireland
No full textThis paper examines the role of community interventions in post-conflict settings. The focus is on peacebuilding through the shaping of collective memories, achieved through the transformation of social ties. By addressing community interventions, this paper opens the black box between interventions by formal institutions (such as peace treaties, trials, or truth commissions) and outcomes. It is based on a study of one specific cross-community initiative in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which – in 2012 – employed a Transitional Justice Grassroots Toolkit. Document analysis is complemented by interviews with participants and organizers to reveal the role of pedagogical practices, mediated by cohort effects, in facilitating cultural transformation through group interactions. This paper suggests how community interventions can change collective memories, cultural trauma, and related identities of the conflict, away from their polarized and polarizing forms, and it explores implications for future peace and social justice
Transformation Towards Social Justice: Artistic Amalgams Seen Through a Hip-Hop Pedagogical Lens
No full textGreetings from the Pink Palace: An Architecturally, Paranormally, and Politically Accurate Ghost Story
No full textA War for God or a War for the Godless? Categorizing the French Wars of Religion as \u27Civil Wars\u27
No full textThe French Civil Wars, or ‘Wars of Religion,’ were set primarily in the sixteenth century and enveloped France in a religious conflict. The Civil Wars were a series of violent periods between the French Protestant Huguenots and the Roman Catholics, Catholicism being the official religion of the French Kingdom. The ongoing struggle resulted in an escalation of civil violence and polarity between the religious affiliations, creating a divided French populous that carried out many atrocities, such as the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. The violence subsided in 1598 when King Henry IV enacted the Edict of Nantes, granting substantial conditions and support to the Huguenot population in France. However, this paper argues for the importance of categorizing the wars as ‘civil’ and not ‘religious.’ The dynamic situation involves more than religious differences, including a central reliance on community-based disputes, group association based on mass paranoia, and even political gain for those of the French nobility. It is important to understand the complexity of the Civil Wars. Denoting them as a religious conflict ignores the other civil implications which provoked aggression between French communities and forces.
La réécriture des Mille et une nuits dans La querelle des images d’Abdelfattah Kilito
No full textAbdelfattah Kilito est un romancier, essayiste et universitaire marocain. Ses écrits littéraires composent une œuvre à dimensions multiples où le texte devient un espace de rencontre des genres littéraires et le lieu où l’on invite et accueille différents textes, voix et formes littéraires et artistiques. Son œuvre se caractérise par un travail continu sur l’héritage des lettres arabes classiques, travail qui se manifeste dans son art romanesque par une poétique de la réécriture où les intertextes foisonnent. L’article analyse les principales manifestations de la poétique de la réécriture des Mille et une nuits dans le roman de Kilito La querelle des Images (1996)
Jacques Stephen Alexis a-t-il influencé Edwidge Danticat ? Lecture comparative de Compère Général Soleil et de La récolte douce des larmes
No full textJacques Stephen Alexis dans Compère Général Soleil (1955) et Edwidge Danticat dans La récolte douce des larmes (1999) restent plus ou moins fidèles à l’histoire. Personnages historiques et fictifs se mélangent. Dans chacun, des éléments de la fiction culminent avec ceux de la réalité. Compère Général Soleil est l’hypotexte de La récolte douce des larmes.Jacques Stephen Alexis dans Compère Général Soleil (1955) et Edwidge Danticat dans La récolte douce des larmes (1999) restent plus ou moins fidèles à l’histoire. Personnages historiques et fictifs se mélangent. Dans chacun, des éléments de la fiction culminent avec ceux de la réalité. Compère Général Soleil est l’hypotexte de La récolte douce des larmes
Living Among Confederate Icons: Perpetuating White Supremacist Beliefs and Blindness to Black Suffering
No full textAlmost 160 years after the American Civil War, where the Union defeated the Confederacy and ended slavery in the United States, approximately 1,910 tributes remain to Confederate military leaders located on public property in the 11 original Confederate states, particularly in cities with an exceptionally high density of Black residents. To Blacks, this iconography delivers a clear message of White supremacy. Six states have enacted laws to protect and preserve these memorials, making it almost impossible to use the court system to move them to private property. This paper explores connections between support for a myth called the Lost Cause, which is a revisionist history intended to spread misinformation about the true cause of the American Civil War, and attitudes toward placement of Confederate symbols on public land. We show that there is significant belief in the Lost-Cause myth among many White U.S. Southerners. Furthermore, we find those who believe most in the myth are the least likely to want to move the monuments or end taxpayer support for their maintenance