The formation and maintenance of a collective memory is necessary for the existence of a social group. Disasters and wars provide critical opportunities of fostering identity awareness and collective memories, which help a political regime or geographic entity achieve stronger acceptation among the community, successfully consolidating the regime’s legitimacy with increased moral and political strengths, or optimizing the solidarity within the entity. In this talk, the speaker will elaborate on the complicated interactions between different social forces during the formation of memories of disasters and wars.
记忆共同体的形成与维持，是一个社会集团得以存续的重要条件。灾难和战争往往成为建构认同和形塑记忆的重要契机，政治权力和地域社会往往通过灾难和战争记忆来强化共同体的连带意识，进而为统治的正当性增加道德和政治资本，或者促进地域共同体的团结。本论就此问题，讨论围绕灾害和战争记忆形成过程中的复杂的社会力学关系。