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Negative self-schemas are fundamental to social anxiety disorder and contribute to its persistence, thus understanding how to change schemas is of critical importance. Memory-based interventions and associated theories propose that reconstructing autobiographical memories tethered to schemas with conceptual details that challenge the associated expectations will lead to schema change. Here, we test this proposal in a between-subjects behavioural experiment with undergraduate participants with social anxiety. All participants were asked to recall aversive social memories, evaluated these memories on a series of scales, including estimates of reoccurrence, and provided ratings of negative and positive schema beliefs. Next, half the participants reconstructed (rescripted) these aversive memories with conceptual details that challenged the active schema (conceptual condition) and the other half reconstructed the memories with additional experiential details (perceptual condition). All participants provided again evaluations of the original memory and their schema beliefs. Our analysis revealed that the conceptual condition led to significant reductions in negative self-schemas, increases in positive self-schemas, and decreases in estimates of future negative event reoccurrence. Thus, effective schema-change, both a weakening of negative schemas and a strengthening of more positive, adaptive schemas, is dependent on altering the underlying meaning of associated autobiographical memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge resides in individuals' minds. Even though knowledge seeking is a key motivation for individuals to participate in social media, it is still a challenge. This study aims at understanding knowledge seeking in the context of social media mobile apps from the perspectives of communication competence and communication visibility. Methodologically, this study follows the paradigm of theory driven empirical research. A research model was developed drawing on prior theories and literature. Data were collected from users of social media mobile apps. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used for data analysis. It was found that Transactive Memory System (TMS) is a valid second-order construct. Moreover, from the perspective of communication competence, communication competence positively impacts TMS which further influences knowledge seeking. From the perspective of communication visibility, exposure to content of other's messages has a positive effect on TMS. The individual effect of perceived anonymity of knowledge seeking on knowledge seeking exhibits positive and significant, which is however overpowered by TMS. Antecedents of TMS highlight the importance of communication by which TMS can be developed collectively within social memory systems. When TMS is higher, users are more likely to trust and coordinate with each other, and know how to access the expert, with the hope of resolving the challenge of knowledge seeking. This study could motivate developers of social media to consider intelligent technologies to enhance users' communication competence. It could motivate them to design different scenarios of communication visibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the cultural memory of the Miners’ Strike 1984–1985 and questions the role that photographic documents can play in the process of memorialization of the events. The photographs of solidarity groups composed of women and LGBT people taken by Format agency photographers and currently held in archives have been largely understudied. The paper discusses whether revisiting these neglected photographic documents taken at the time might enable for a reassessment of the cultural memory of the miners’ strike from the perspective of female photographers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractYouth living at the intersections of multiple marginalized identities are navigating a polarized context where civil liberties are threatened. The aim of this paper is to provide a theoretically framed illustration of how my practice has evolved since Fall 2023 through the genocide of Palestinians. I define and illustrate five theories that guide my work, and provide anti-oppressive occupational reformulations of witnessing and self-care. A liberatory occupational analysis of cultural activity highlights the centrality of history and rootedness in land, collective memory and storytelling, transgenerational continuity, and political resistance, for healing during a time of active traumatization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The politics of memory is also the politics of forgetting – especially when it comes to perpetrators of violence, such as those who committed genocide and other crimes against humanity in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s. This study considers how history, mythology, and collective memories have been used by institutions and politicians, particularly in the Serb-dominated Bosnian entity Republika Srpska (RS), to construct narratives that discursively erase the Bosniak (Muslim) population and deny the country’s multi-ethnic and multi-religious history. This research contrasts these narratives ‘from above’ with narratives ‘from below’ performed by ordinary people, focusing on how memories of the recent past are constructed, contested, appropriated, and performed in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. Employing a combination of historical methods and ethnography to understand the competing narratives’ poetics, the research offers a new interpretation of the competing memories of post-conflict communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where large-scale atrocities in the country took place. This study argues that the concept of hijacked memories and survivors’ performative enactments of alternative memories in local commemorative spaces provide a powerful counter-narrative to the official memory imposed by RS institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Voluntary sleep curtailment is increasingly more rampant in modern society and compromises healthy cognition, including memory, to varying degrees. However, whether memory encoding is impaired after chronic sleep deprivation (CSD) and the underlying molecular mechanisms involved remain unclear. Here, using the mice, we tested the impact of CSD on the encoding abilities of social recognition-dependent memory and object recognition-dependent memory. We found that memory encoding was indeed vulnerable to CSD, while memory retrieval remained unaffected. The hippocampal neurons of mice with memory encoding deficits exhibited significant synapse damage and hyperactive autophagy, which dissipates during regular sleep cycles. This excessive autophagy appeared to be triggered by damage to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), resulting from oxidative stress within the mitochondria. The relief at the behavioral and molecular biological levels can be achieved with intraperitoneal injections of the antioxidant compound melatonin. Moreover, our in vitro experiments using HT-22 cells demonstrated that oxidative stress induced by hydrogen peroxide led to oxidative damage, including mtDNA damage, and activation of autophagy. Melatonin treatment effectively countered these effects, restoring redox homeostasis and reducing excessive autophagic activity. Notably, this protective effect was not observed when melatonin was administered as a pre-treatment. Together, our findings reveal the vulnerability of memory encoding during chronic sleep curtailment, which is caused by oxidative stress and consequent enhancement of autophagy, suggest a potential therapeutic strategy for addressing these effects following prolonged wakefulness through melatonin intervention, and reiterate the significance of adequate sleep for memory formation and retention. [Display omitted] • CSD impaired memory encoding in mice. • Melatonin attenuated CSD-induced memory encoding deficits through hippocampal synapse regulation. • Melatonin alleviated excessive autophagy induced by CSD in the hippocampus. • Melatonin can effectively diminish the oxidative stress and mtDNA damage triggered by autophagy in CSD mice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social discrimination, the investigation of a novel peer more so than a familiar peer, is used as a measure of social memory. There is much less research on long-term social memory than short-term social memory, and no long-term social memory research in female rats. The majority of long-term social discrimination research has relied on long familiarization session of an hour or more and involved juveniles as the stimulus peers. Here we show that a 30-minute familiarization session is sufficient to produce social discrimination 24 h later in both male and female rats and allows for measurement of social approach. Other methodological considerations are described, such as: that age- and sex-matched stimulus peers can be used across a wider range of ages than the use of juveniles; evidence that a familiar peer in a novel location attenuates social discrimination; that the first 10 minutes of the social approach reliably shows a preference for the social peer over an object whereas the 30-minute session does not; and that 10-minute discrimination sessions are preferable to 5-minute sessions. The research satisfies the goal of obtaining an efficient procedure to investigate both the possibility of enhancing or diminishing social approach and social memory with experimental manipulations in both sexes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary Special buildings, or communal buildings, were ubiquitous in most Neolithic settlements in the Levant, Upper Mesopotamia, and Anatolia. Recently, remains of three special buildings with terrazzo floors dating to the early seventh millennium BC representing the Initial Neolithic period in west Anatolian chronology were unearthed in the basal layers of the mound located in front of the Girmeler cave in south‐west Anatolia. The terrazzo floors in these three special buildings feature traces of red‐painted linear and geometric decorations, while one also contains human burials. These special buildings may enhance our understanding of the symbolic and ritual behaviours of the Neolithic communities living on the south‐west fringes of Anatolia. They may have been gathering places for ritual activities that helped create social memories and define group identities, as well as strengthen intra‐ and inter‐societal relations among Neolithic groups. It is argued that the location of these special buildings adjacent to a natural hot spring before a cave with an impressive façade may have been one of the factors that eventually led Neolithic groups to form a gathering pattern here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study deals with journalistic coverage of historical events and their contextualization. It conceptualizes the relationship between history, collective memory, and contemporary media logic. It shows the specific treatment of news values on historical topics and the penetration of entertainment elements into the resulting media content. The case study analyzes the discrepancy between the perceived importance of some historical events in Czech society and their journalistic coverage using the example of Czech media production in the year of round anniversaries in 2018. It utilizes the concept of news values and identifies similar procedures in presenting historical events in the media. The result is a more robust media reminder for those events that meet specific news values for historical topics. Content analysis has shown that the media choose more significant media coverage of other anniversaries than those considered by the Czechs to be the most important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What can the Battle of Lepanto (1571) reveal about the interconnected politics of nationalism and racism in contemporary Europe? Linking memory studies, critical heritage and the history of European-Ottoman wars, this article uses the 450th anniversary of the historic battle as an entry point for rethinking the politics of commemoration in modern Greece. It takes a multi-scalar perspective which charts memory-making across different spatial and temporal scales and examines the role of mnemonic practices as articulations of Greek nationalism blended with dependence on Greece’s Euro-Atlantic patrons. The article situates the 450th anniversary of Lepanto within a larger commemorative tradition and long-term development of civic rituals and representational conventions. In doing so, it highlights the dynamics of voicing and silencing that shapes public history in ways that sanitise the past and obfuscate complex historical processes. Specifically, the article shows how the erasure of the Black history of Nafpaktos (the Greek town associated with Lepanto) and portrayals of the Greeks as an anti-Islamic nation have reinforced eurocentric civilisational narratives, occluding histories of colonialism and empire that continue to cast their shadows today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article delves into the traumatic impact of self-immolation protests within the Tibetan community, examining specific cases and responses both within and outside Tibet. It explores the emotional and political aspects of self-immolation as a form of resistance, highlighting the individual and collective trauma experienced. The filmmakers behind the documentaries aim to challenge prevailing narratives, focusing on human stories and the long-term effects of these protests on the Tibetan struggle for self-determination. The document also delves into themes of conflict, violence, and terrorism, discussing the religious, political, and cultural implications of self-immolation as a mode of protest in Tibet, as well as the changing language of protest and online debates among Tibetans in exile. [Extracted from the article]

This article offers a unique examination of the 1930s Federal Writers’ Project interviews, focusing on the narratives of three formerly enslaved women – Matilda Brooks, Carrie Nancy Fryer, and Rachel Sullivan. They share the experience of having been enslaved by the same man, Francis W. Pickens, on his South Carolinian plantations. Through the lens of these narratives, the article investigates the complex interplay between personal memory and historical context, acknowledging the inherent challenges these accounts present due to their creation during the racially prejudiced era of the Jim Crow South and the economic hardship of the Depression. These interviews provide a singularly concentrated insight into the contest over the enslaved experience between those enslaved, their interlocuters, and their enslaver. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractBackgroundMethodsResultsConclusionsAlthough medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are effective for treating opioid use disorder (OUD), persistent barriers still prevent patients from accessing this life-saving care. Policies to increase MOUD access have produced suboptimal results. This study presents a qualitative system dynamics model that elucidates the complexities of accessing and staying in MOUD treatment.We utilized a community-based system dynamics approach to modeling the MOUD treatment system. We engaged a cohort of system experts/stakeholders, including individuals who had received MOUD, treatment providers, and policymakers, in interviews and group model building to develop and refine a simulation model. We then created a qualitative causal loop diagram based on insights gained while developing the simulation model and a review of interview transcripts.The causal loop diagram captures four key factors affecting treatment initiation, retention, and leaving: (1) fraught interactions between patients and healthcare providers; (2) stigma-driven regulation of MOUD creating a culture of fear and defensive medicine; (3) a punitive culture in clinics and opioid treatment programs offering MOUD; and (4) the internalization of the abstinence narrative contributing to premature termination of treatment.Our analysis highlights how interdependent and non-linear feedback processes diminish or counteract the effectiveness and sustainability of MOUD policy interventions. Due to system memory and cultural resistance to change, even rolling back reactionary policies may do little to curb established behavioral patterns. In addition, conflicting and competing strategies among various actors within the system contribute to goal misalignment and a lack of standardization of care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social‐ecological memory (SEM) may be a key source of resilience in social‐ecological systems (SES), allowing for renewal and reorganisation after disturbances. This study provides an overview of the genesis and evolution of the SEM concept, its research trends and gaps, and its potential applicability to geographical thought. Combining systematic review and bibliometric analysis, we collected 219 records published in the last two decades, which were reduced to 87 relevant records after applying the inclusion/exclusion criterion. The results indicate that interest in SEM research is growing, but wide acceptance and concordance around terminology are still lagging. The concept has substantially evolved and expanded over the last decade but remains mostly abstract and conceptual. Research has focused predominantly on European countries, rural contexts, and westernised societies, identified multiple disturbances and ecosystem services as driving the maintenance and evolution of SEM, and highlighted an unequal interest between social and ecological memory carriers. Our review underlines the strong pertinence of the SEM concept for the study and management of social‐ecological systems, which would benefit from the development of application strategies and tools. In the future, researchers should seek to expand the idea of social‐ecological memory into an applied field having clearer links and boundaries with more established concepts important in geography, among them traditional ecological knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban memory involves the re-creation of a city's physical, historical, social, and cultural elements in the memories of its inhabitants. However, urban transformation and commercial tourism-oriented projects may threaten the continuity of this memory. This study aims to provide an understanding of the relationship between urban memory and spatial experience while exploring how urban memory elements convey meanings to daily users and local inhabitants of a touristic settlement. The research focuses on Misi Village in Bursa, Turkey, a settlement with a 2000-year history known for its traditional architecture and natural beauty. Over the past two decades, local authorities have pursued extensive restoration projects to rebrand Misi Village as an Art and Tourism Village. The research employs the oral history method, focusing on two user groups: tourists and locals. The findings reveal that while tourists appreciate Misi Village for its natural beauty and recreational activities, they lack a deeper understanding of its history and the transformation of its identity. Instead, they mostly focus on commerce-oriented spatial experiences. In contrast, local residents emphasize daily life and traditional practices as they strive to sustain their livelihoods. By highlighting this difference, strategic planning is proposed to preserve Misi Village's unique urban memory and promote sustainable, culturally centered tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colombian filmmaker Juan Soto has been read within recent scholarship as forming part of a significant new generation of filmmakers producing experimental works that counter dominant (extractive) representations of the country’s armed conflict. Soto’s experimental engagement with memory and his family’s own relationship to political violence are clearly on display in his 2017 film Parábola del retorno (Parable of the Return), which explores the exile and disappearance of the director’s uncle, Wilson Mario. This article contends, however, that the film’s critical engagement with the audiovisual archive should also be situated within a recent turn in Colombian cultural production in which modes of spectrality and haunting have sought to bring to the present the silences of Colombia’s history of violence in the context of recent peacebuilding and transitional justice processes. Analysing how Soto’s film cinematographically enacts ideas of hauntology, the article shows that Soto deploys the modes of spectrality not to reinforce dominant discourses of historical memory or work through a violent past. Instead, it argues that Soto dialogues with recent scholarly work on spectrality that emphasises the emancipatory potential of the ghost as a means of critiquing official discourses of “post-conflict” and teleological ideas of “transition” in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the discursive construction of secular martyrdom in contemporary Arab discourse by analysing 215 Arabic public martyr texts in which martyrdom was used in non-religious contexts. Theoretically grounded in notions of memory [Castelli, E., 2004. Martyrdom and memory. New York: Columbia University Press] and embodied martyrdom [DeSoucey, M., et al., 2008. Memory and sacrifice: An embodied theory of martyrdom. Cultural sociology, 2 (1), 99–121]. The analysis shows that Arab secular martyrdom is employed to memorialise people who lost their lives as a result of political assassination, while performing a public duty or expressing dissenting political views, or who were victims of tragic disasters or killed as journalists while covering conflicts. These secular martyrs are discursively constructed as victims of oppression, injustice or bureaucratic failure and neglect. While religious references are used in these texts, they can be seen as formulaic expressions that do not confer religious meanings upon the martyrdom event. However, their use points to the fluidity of martyrdom within the religious-secular dichotomy and the non-fixity of this binary. The discursive construction of Arab secular martyrdom offers support to a theoretical conceptualisation of secular martyrdom in terms of collective memory, sacrifice, victimhood and bodily suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to verify whether volunteering and environmentalism are two phenomena that overlap both conceptually and empirically. The actions for the protection and enhancement of rivers in Italy are taken as a testing ground. Two packages of literature are used to understand the overlap between volunteering and environmentalism, one on neo-institutionalism and the other on new social movements. The starting framework is a general typology of voluntary organisations, which is then adapted to the environmental movement. The hypothesis of growing disintermediation and light commitment by the new generations of volunteers finds original answers in river volunteering. Alongside classic environmentalist militancy, forms of popular action in favour of rivers are emerging that show detachment from politics and attraction to intrinsic benefits, such as the pleasure of recreation and collective memory recovery. This raises new questions about the role of organised civil society in maintaining democracy and helping the ecological transition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the interconnected histories and memories of two Palestinian points in time: the historical Jesus event and the Nakba. It critiques colonial-imperial narratives that have historically disconnected the Jesus event from Palestine, often interpreting it as a divine sacrifice that signified Europe's transition into a new era: Christianity. Inspired by Ahn Byung-Mu's work on the minjung or ochlos (the sheep without a shepherd, the dehumanized and alienated crowd in the Gospel of Mark), this study draws on critical historical Jesus scholarship, seeking to reevaluate the journey of the ochlos between exile and redemption. It offers a postcolonial interpretation of the Jesus event through the concepts of collective memory and trauma, arguing for the importance of revisiting the past to address and reframe present injustices and disenfranchisements. The conclusion discusses the relationship between remembrance and belongingness, emphasizing its potential to challenge memory erasure and trauma denialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Always considered an exceptional case, D. Cantemir was often used as an “agent of influence” who, through the prestige of his work, could legitimize different ideological agendas or political programs. Almost never did Dmitri Cantemir receive a passive reception, a critical distance. This study examines how his works were used for various ideological interests. The Chronicle on the antiquity of the Romano-Moldo-Vlachs fuelled the political agenda of intellectuals in Transylvania because of Cantemir's thesis that the Romanians were descendants of the Romans, not of the Dacians; Descriptio Moldaviae was used, according to interest, to legitimise unionist ideas in Moldova, but also separatist ones. In 1935, the repatriation of his remains was a pretext for resuming diplomatic relations with the USSR, but also a nationalist spectacle. In the 1980s, when the official policy of the communist regime was nationalism, Cantemir became a hero of protochronism, an ideological trend that supported the pioneering of Romanians in almost all fields of knowledge. Cantemir was a pre-Enlightenment scholar, a century and a half before Romanticism. His thought is alien to the Herderian nationalism from which he has often been analysed. Finally, the study proposes a transnational approach to the personality of D. Cantemir. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to underline the specificities of Theodor Fontane's work Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg as a place of remembrance – and subsequently of the places of remembrance it contains – as well as the importance that this very comprehensive text has until today for the cultural space of Berlin-Brandenburg. The paper highlights a dynamic of cultural memory that ranges from overlaying places of remembrance to the emergence of new ones. The project has been completed and illustrated with some walks undertaken by the author of the article in the footsteps of Fontane. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to explain the different perceptions of the colonisers and the colonised regarding the history and memory of a Makassar legend, I Tolok Daeng Magassing. The Dutch colonial records paint I Tolok as a criminal leader and a societal nuisance, contrasting sharply with the people's view of him as a hero, defender, and protector. This portrayal demonstrates that the I Tolok narrative is an integral part of a process involving colonial perspectives and the memories of the Makassar people. The narrative today is not without contradiction. The community's memory of I Tolok is transmitted through oral literature (sinrilik), a traditional form of storytelling, which has also evolved into drama form and short films disseminated via digital content. These forms of media serve as modern vehicles for the preservation and dissemination of the I Tolok narrative. Previously, the I Tolok narrative was part of the people's oral tradition confined to the interior of Makassar. It is now articulated in various visual media and accessible to the larger community. All of these are the memory politics of the Makassar people in countering the colonial narrative that places I Tolok as a criminal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Dossier: Memories of colonial pasts: perspectives from the philosophy of history" addresses the importance of memory in the interpretation of the colonial past. It highlights the emergence of groups demanding recognition and reparations as historical victims, as well as the globalization of memory and the construction of cosmopolitan memories. It reflects on the resignification of the colonial past and analyzes different contexts in which this phenomenon has taken place. [Extracted from the article]

The recent history of the Ukrainian authoritarian far right is one of paradoxes. If one looks at the polls, it has performed poorly; its modest successes have been regional and short-lived. On the other hand, it has been highly successful in terms of shaping memory politics in the country. It has had a disproportional influence on history writing, having invested significant efforts into building an effective structure in the field of memory management. Radical nationalists have also come to staff senior positions as deans and vice chancellors at Ukraine's top universities, the ministry of education, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINP), and the archives of the Ukrainian Security Service (HDA SBU). The hard right has gained a disproportionate influence on "soft issues" of identity and the shaping of "national memory" – not only by running the governmental memory institutes, but also by hands-on drafting of memory laws outlawing "disrespect" for the OUN, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and other historical far-right groups. This study seeks to trace and contextualize the repatriation of the ethnonationalist hard right from emigration and its role in shaping an infrastructure of memory production – in particular, under presidents Yushchenko (2005–2010) and Poroshenko (2014–2019). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study identifies the mnemonic strategies of the Slovak extreme-right Ľudová Strana Naše Slovensko (ĽSNS) / People's Party Our Slovakia as a means of establishing a mnemonic alliance with Putin's Russia. ĽSNS's construction of mnemonic culture surrounding two critical events in Slovak history – the 1944 Slovak National Uprising and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet army and its allies – is marked by an effort to overcome the ideological divide between its extreme-right ideology and Russia's identity and memory politics rooted in its anti-fascist heritage. Those two events represent an uneasy terrain for building political and mnemonic alliances between ĽSNS and Putin's Russia. Even though these two historical milestones represent a seemingly unmasterable past and an obstacle in an ĽSNS-Russia alliance, the party implemented several mnemonic strategies to reconfigure the place of these two key historical events in national memory and clear the path for a closer alliance with Putin's Russia. We argue that ĽSNS's memory construction is multidirectional rather than competitive or discordant. We unpack ĽSNS's memory construction and identify multidirectional effects and trajectories as vectors for building a mnemonic alliance with Putin's Russia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay focuses on analyzing the history of the evolution of the nationalist memory narrative in recent memory politics in Ukraine. It observes the political rehabilitation of the radical nationalist movement and its leaders and organizations, followed by public recognition and glorification, and the evolution of this memory narrative since the beginning of the 1990s from local memory to the centerpiece of the state politics of memory. This article examines the memorialization and commemoration of the nationalist movement at regional and national levels (sites of memory, memorial dates, renaming of topographical objects, movies, TV series, etc.), policies aimed at the promotion of the nationalist historical myth, political controversies, roles of major actors, public debates on these issues, societal responses, and international disputes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the impact of military facilities in Megapolitan Lima, considering the city's physical, symbolic, and social space configuration. This research focuses on the Las Palmas Air Force Base and the Chorrillos Military Base, examining how these sites demarcate the urban space and affect the social dynamics, symbolic perceptions, and power relations. Using a qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews, observation, and document analysis, the role of military bases is explored in constructing urban identity, collective memory, and community cohesion in Lima. The findings reveal diverse perceptions. While some perceive these spaces as symbols of protection, stability, and order, others see them as agents of segregation and control. This plurality of opinions indicates that the military facilities fulfill a complex, multifaceted role in the city, influenced by the social and cultural context of the different groups involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reconnects with the ongoing struggles of her parents' hometown, Copándaro de Galeana, located in Michoacán, Mexico, in this ethnographic critical research. Employing critical survey methods and analyzing the community's identity reclamation through two festivals, El Carnaval and El Festival de las Almas y las Flores, the author collaborates with family members and friends to create a collective memory of Copándaro de Galeana's intangible cultural heritage, underscoring the community's self-expressed Resistant Knowledges. As a critical cultural heritage study, this article addresses the dichotomy of exploitation vs empowerment present in archival aspects of cultural heritage preservation methods. It also examines how the author's position as a Chicana/Mestiza, attempting to reconnect with her indigenous roots and the duality of Indigenismo, aids or counters the empowerment of Copándaro de Galeana. Situated within the broader theme of "Resistant Knowledges: Unmasking Coloniality through the re-search of local to global communities," the study addresses specific subtopics, emphasizing autonomous movements, identity and representation, and community resilience. Recognizing the important role that oral history has played in recording Copándaro de Galeana's memory, the author similarly includes community members' recollections and personal experiences to form a decolonized re-search article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While prevailing research on migration predominantly concentrates on individuals fleeing adversities, this approach results in an underrepresentation of communities that exhibit a desire for immobility even in adversity. Thus, the decision of some community members to resist displacement and stay put in communities exposed to adversity, such as violent conflict—eco-violence, is underexplored; this article addresses this gap. In this article, grounded in the concept of collective memory, a reflexive thematic approach is used to analyze data collected in May 2022 from focus group participants in Benue and Nasarawa states in the North Central region of Nigeria. Among other things, the findings highlight the role of collective and materialized memories in shaping the attachments of community members to their ancestral land and their subsequent voluntary adoption of immobility. This article enriches the literature by presenting a perspective on how people's memories shape the dynamics that support their quest for immobility within their conflict-affected communities, in this case, in the Nigerian context. Public Significance Statement: Most migration studies focus on internally displaced persons and refugees, often overlooking those who remain in the areas from which these individuals fled. This article focused on these overlooked persons who choose to remain in their communities despite facing adversities such as violent conflict. By exploring the experiences of community members who chose immobility in conflict-affected areas in the Nigerian Middle Belt, the article reveals how collective and materialized memories drive their decisions to stay put in their communities despite the violent conflicts. Understanding these dynamics enriches academic discussions on (im)mobility in adversity and underscores the importance of incorporating mechanisms that respect and promote their desires for immobility, thereby supporting them to actualize their life opportunities within their communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Education in historical and democratic memory. Curriculum and experiences in formal education, non-formal education, and teacher training" highlights the importance of educating in historical and democratic memory from the Didactics of Social Sciences. Topics such as the persecution of teachers during Franco's regime, teacher training in different national and international contexts, and educational experiences in historical and democratic memory at various educational stages are addressed. It promotes a critical reflection on memory as a tool to build a citizenship committed to freedom and human rights. [Extracted from the article]

Our article AI, cultural heritage, and bias examines the challenges and potential solutions for using machine learning to interpret and classify human memory and cultural heritage artifacts. We argue that bias is inherent in cultural heritage collections (CHCs) and their digital versions and that AI pipelines may amplify this bias. We hypothesise that effective AI methods require vast, well-annotated datasets with structured metadata, which CHCs often lack due to diverse digitisation practices and limited interconnectivity. This paper discusses the definition of bias in CHCs and other datasets, exploring how it stems from training data and insufficient humanities expertise in generative platforms. We conclude that scholarship, guidelines, and policies on AI and CHCs should address bias as both inherent and augmented by AI technologies. We recommend implementing bias mitigation techniques throughout the process, from collection to curation, to support meaningful curation, embrace diversity, and cater to future heritage audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contrary to what other mayors had done to deal with calls to remove Confederate monuments in their cities, the first Black woman mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina appointed a 2020 commission to evaluate and make recommendations for dealing with the monument controversy. As the state's largest city and "international gateway" to the New South, Charlotte had long wrestled with tensions over cultural memory. Utilizing a mixed methods "embedded design" case study approach, this article examines quantitative and qualitative data, including an analysis of newspaper articles from The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News & Observer, to ascertain public reaction to the commission. Results show that media accounts often framed the city's monument controversy as reflecting the locale's new sociodemographic reality, a euphemism for lingering conflicts in the jurisdiction over cultural memory, heritage claims, electoral representation, race, and monumentality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Long‐distance migrations are a striking, and strikingly successful, adaptation for highly mobile terrestrial animals in seasonal environments. However, it remains an open question whether migratory animals are more resilient or less resilient to rapidly changing environments. Furthermore, the mechanisms by which animals adapt or modify their migrations are poorly understood. We describe a dramatic shift of over 500 km in the wintering range of the Western Arctic Herd, a large caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd in northwestern Alaska, an area that is undergoing some of the most rapid warming on Earth. Between 2012 and 2020, caribou switched from reliably wintering in maritime tundra in the southwesternmost portion of their range to more frequently wintering in mountainous areas to the east. Analysis of this range shift, in conjunction with nearly 200 documented mortality events, revealed that it was both broadly adaptive and likely driven by collective memory of poor winter conditions. Before the range shift, overwinter survival in the maritime tundra was high, routinely surpassing 95%, but falling to around 80% even as fewer animals wintered there. Meanwhile, in the increasingly used mountainous portion of the range, survival was intermediate and less variable across years compared to the extremes in the southern winter ranges. Thus, the shift only imperfectly mitigated overall increased mortality rates. The range shift has also been accompanied by changes in seasonal patterns of survival that are consistent with poorer nutritional intake in winter. Unexpectedly, the strongest single predictor of an individual's probability of migrating south was the overall survival of animals in the south in the preceding winter, suggesting that the range shift is in part driven by collective memory. Our results demonstrate the importance and use of collective decision making and memory for a highly mobile species for improving fitness outcomes in a dynamic, changing environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The narrative of 2 Kings 18:17–19:9a, 36–37 ("Source B1") recounts pre-exilic religious collective trauma surrounding Sennacherib's military advance against Judah in 710 BCE and its aftermath. In this narrative, the Rabshakeh uses the keywords "בטח" and "נצל" to assert that Yhwh has turned against Judah. However, his claims were subverted by the withdrawal of the Assyrian army and the later death of Sennacherib, facilitated by the divine intervention of Yhwh following Hezekiah's supplication. Despite its significance, only a few studies have examined this narrative as that of trauma. Drawing on Jeffrey Alexander's theory of the social process of cultural or collective trauma, this study argues that the function of this narrative is that of religious trauma narrative. It reconstructs the collective trauma of Sennacherib's campaign to theologically defend the Davidic kingship and Yhwh and ultimately suggests a revised identity for the Judaean community to foster solidarity, even under the ongoing influence of Assyria following the military campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advancing the concept of rhetorical malewashing, in this essay I argue expunging women's efforts from the telling of historical racialized violence constructs a flawed and incomplete account of white supremacy by dismissing white women's racist agentic capacities. As an extended granular example, I highlight how contemporary public memory of the Ku Klux Klan omits the fundamental role white women served in both the organization's endurance and the orchestration of its campaign of terror. Examining a pastiche of modern memory texts from popular culture that constitute our present public imaginary of the Klan, I attend to how such texts reflect our tendency to reduce racialized violence to an exclusively masculine phenomenon. I conclude by addressing implications of such reductionist beliefs, including our constricted ability to grapple with white supremacy's more insidious feminine form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

W. E. B. Du Bois occupies a singular place in classical sociology as the most prolific African American scholar of his times. This article demonstrates the profound impact the First World War had on Du Bois's life, intellectual work and political evolution. While viewing the roots of the war through the lens of the global color-line and Europe's imperial exploitation of Africa, he nevertheless believed it represented a possibility for the expansion of democracy for people of African descent and African Americans in particular. In the aftermath of the war, Du Bois attempted to reckon with its historical and sociological meaning by writing a book, which he ultimately never completed. Du Bois's failure to finish what would have been one of his most important works represented the failure of the war itself and his inability to effectively marshal the tools of social science to make sense of the conflict, personally, and intellectually. The war ultimately shaped the trajectory of Du Bois's scholarship and political radicalism in ways unlike any other sociologist in the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the decision amongst the children and grandchildren of Auschwitz survivors to replicate the concentration camp number of their survivor family member on their own body. The article sheds new light on the complex intergenerational legacy of the Holocaust and on memorial practices. By focusing on the tattoo as a form of memorial practice, the article captures the intersections between the contemporary trend of tattooing and the concentration camp number as the visual symbol of the crimes of the Nazis. Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with 13 descendants of Holocaust survivors, the article considers motivations for getting the tattoo, conversations with the survivor parent or grandparent about the tattoo (if they were still alive), as well as the design and placement on the body. The decision to replicate the number was a statement about family relationships and was often a way of expressing love, legacy and continuity and pride. Some descendants who replicated the number, which had dehumanised and stigmatised their ancestor, saw it as a way of reclaiming. The tattoo also had a dialogical function, keeping family stories and histories alive as we enter the post-witness era. The sociological analysis is this article shows how personal lives are shaped by memories, as well as secrets and silences, and how they connect with history, relationships and identity. This article contributes to our understanding of the legacy of the Holocaust on families and family relationships and the corporeal impacts across generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay utilises a series of oral history interviews conducted with women in West Belfast to consider the role of community nostalgia and transgenerational trauma within the post-accord landscape. It argues that nostalgia should not be dismissed as an unreliable assessor of historic communality and instead highlights its importance in understanding post-conflict community atomisation. Equally, it advocates for an understanding that nostalgic sentiments can co-exist alongside traumatic recollections and understandings of generational traumas. The simultaneous expression of these dichotomous feelings reveals the intricacies of women's collective remembrance, and the continued impact of historic traumas on present-day communities in West Belfast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Restoration has long used the reference concept as a cornerstone in setting targets, designing interventions, and benchmarking success. Following the initial applications of restoration references, however, the definition and broader relevance has been debated. Particularly in an era of directional global change, using historic or even contemporary ecosystem models has been contentious among restoration scientists and practitioners. In response, there have been calls for increasing flexibility in how references are defined and diversifying sources of data used to describe a reference. Previous frameworks suggest reference information can be drawn from sources across two main axes of time and space, covering historic to contemporary sources, and near to far spatial scales. We extend these axes by including future projections of climate and species composition and regional ecological information that is spatially disconnected from defined ecosystem types. Using this new framework, we conducted a review of restoration literature published between 2010 and 2020, extracting the temporal and spatial scales of reference data and classifying reference metrics by data type. The studies overwhelmingly focused on contemporary, ecosystem‐specific references to benchmark a completed project's success. The most commonly reported reference metrics were plant‐based, and contemporary reference data sources were more diverse than historical or future reference data. As global conditions continue to shift, we suggest that restoration projects would benefit by expanding reference site information to include forecasted and spatially diverse data. A greater diversity of data sources can enable higher flexibility and long‐term restoration success in the face of global change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the exhibition "Tiana's Bayou Adventure" at the Walt Disney Imagineering with Walt Disney Animation Studios in Florida from June 27, 2024.

The text discusses the significance of opening Australia's multilingual archive, exploring the interplay between power, knowledge, and collective memory in the national archive. It delves into the impact of language and translation on Australian history-making, highlighting the challenges faced by migrants in the Anglophone West and the dominance of the English language. The article emphasizes the importance of multilingualism in reshaping historical narratives, challenging traditional structures, and enriching Australia's complex place in the world. [Extracted from the article]

National archives, libraries, and museums both expose and, directly or indirectly, collude with the military, legal, political, and rhetorical processes of exclusion that tend to obfuscate people's subjectivities. In this article, official spaces assigned to preserve national memory are placed into dialogue with other archival sites of memory preservation and retrieval of family and community past. By looking at the connections between diverse documents related to Italian-speaking individuals who were prisoners of war and civilian internees in Australia, during World War II, the article investigates how this material can be used to question hegemonic discourses and counters the 'monolingual paradigm'. Letters, diaries, and memoirs that account captivity and marginalisation during wartime offer cases of polyvocal texts as both creative and privileged sites of speech acts, discursive and material interactions where we can locate spaces of agency, connection and affect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text discusses various books that explore the relationship between urban environments and nature, focusing on topics such as rivers, street trees, and urban green spaces. Authors like Martin Knoll, Sonja Dümpelmann, Kristin Poling, and Flavia Alice Mameli et al. analyze how cities interact with nature, the impact of scientific expertise on policymaking, and the role of citizen participation in shaping urban spaces. These books provide insights into the historical, cultural, and social dimensions of urban nature, highlighting the complexities of governance, citizen empowerment, and environmental sustainability in urban settings. [Extracted from the article]

This article focuses on Major Gualberto Villarroel's dictatorship in Bolivia (1943-1946), his murder, and the reanimation of his memory as a Bolivian national hero by the MNR party or Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Nationalist Revolutionary Movement). This nationalist party forged out of the crucible of the Chaco War, between Bolivia and Paraguay during 1932-1935, was an important factor in Bolivian politics throughout the twentieth century and initially came to power through an urban insurrection in April 1952. The article specifically uses the case of Gualberto Villarroel to explore why some national heroes are missing from the La Paz cemetery, how the MNR chose to commemorate the Revolution of 1952 and Villarroel's martyrdom for the MNR in 1946, and how the MNR used those events to colonize urban space, to shape collective memory, and to silence popular historical actors. The MNR's choice in making Villarroel a martyr required a revision of historical reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the ways in which the memory of transnational traumatic events of war and conflict of the past have been represented at Wellington's waterfront and whether the site, with its multitude of memorial plaques, can be read as a lieu de mémoire. The study focuses on three commemorative plaques: the memorial plaque to those New Zealanders who took part in the Spanish Civil War (2011); the commemorative plaque to the Polish children of Pahīatua (2004); and the memorial plaque commemorating the arrival of the United States Marine Corps to New Zealand (1951/2000). It, first, examines the memory entrepreneurs behind the commemoration of the events the plaques depict and analyse whether these agents engaged in bottom-up or top-down mnemonic practices and activities (or a mixture of these). Second, it analyses the significance of these memorials in the collective memory of contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates unofficial memory projects that have arisen in Australia in response to the institutional abuse of children. While the role of activists in pushing for the enactment of state responses is beginning to be understood, activist demands for recognition have taken a multitude of forms beyond this. Unofficial memory projects are indicative of this, exemplified by a diverse range of publicly situated cultural forms that re-present abuse to wider audiences. Focusing on two examples that have arisen in Australia in recent years – the grassroots phenomenon known as Loud Fence that grew out of the Victorian town of Ballarat, and the Australian Orphanage Museum that was established by Care leavers in 2023 – I examine these as examples of memory activism which generate counter-archives of institutional violence against children. Loud Fence does so upon institutional fences at the level of the streetscape, while the AOM does so by curating a museum space that honours the experiences of childhood 'Care'. Seeking to decentre the state from this analysis, I demonstrate how such examples enliven the fast and slow violence of child abuse and neglect, and the role of non-state actors when it comes to the recalibration of collective memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Chips from the Quarry" in the journal "Rocks & Minerals" discusses the history of the famed mineral locality Mont Saint-Hilaire in Québec, featuring previous articles on the quarry from 1986 and 1995. It also mentions the end of the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium and highlights upcoming events like the 2025 Tucson Show. Additionally, it invites nominations for mineralogical awards and acknowledges contributions from various mineral societies and individuals. [Extracted from the article]

Introduction: Sleep disturbances are being increasingly recognized in association with autoimmune encephalitis (AIE). We investigated the prevalence of sleep-related symptoms and polysomnographic features of patients with AIE and the long-term outcomes in these patients in a multi-center, prospective study from Turkey. Methods: We prospectively evaluated patients with definite AIE in a common database including demographics, AIE-related and sleep-related symptomatology. Maximum and latest modified Rankin scores (mRS) and Liverpool Outcome Score (LOS) were noted. Results: Of 142 patients, 87 patients (61.3%) fulfilled the criteria for definite AIE (mean age, 46.8+18.8 years; 51.7% women; mean disease duration, 21.0+38.4 months). 78.9% of patients had at least one or more new onset or worsened sleep-related symptomatology: insomnia (55.3%), excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS, 28.0%), sleep apnea (18.7%), REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD, 17.3%), restless legs syndrome (10.7%) and oneiric stupor (9.3%). Sleep efficiency, N3 and REM sleep were decreased and N1 sleep was increased in patients with Ab[+] AIE. LOS points were highest in those with insomnia and sleep apnea, and lowest in those with EDS, RBD and oneiric stupor. RBD and sleep apnea were more common in anti-LG1 Ab[+] group than anti-NMDAR Ab[+] group. Index of periodic leg movements was highest in anti-LG1 Ab[+] group. Patients with EDS and oneiric stupor had more common memory problems. Maximum and latest mRS scores were positively correlated with EDS and oneiric stupor. EDS, RBD and oneiric stupor were negatively correlated with LOS points. Conclusion: Our study emphasizes the presence and importance of early diagnosis of sleep disturbances in AIE in regard to their deteriorative influences on disease prognosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using grief as a node of beginning, this paper considers how all qualitative writing is an intra-action through which the process of engaging with one's memory, remembering, and collective memory co-constitutes subjectivities and agency within and across the writing process. Therefore, this paper argues that through writing qualitatively, both the author, as well as broader sociopolitical norms and values be and become in ways that are worth our attention and intention as researchers and participants in local and less local contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]