The Politics of Memory Activism

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

The study of historical memory has been an interdisciplinary enterprise to which political science has been a late comer compared to the neighboring field of history and sociology. This panel brings together a set of actor-centric political science paper to explain a range of important political outcomes such as the contemporary upsurge in populism, the rise of democratic and anti-democratic movements, and the pursuit of historical justice for the victims of dictatorship.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 7: Politics and History

Individual Presentations

• Truth-Seeking and Legal Accountability - Jennifer M. Dixon, Villanova University; Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Suffolk University

• Paths of Extrication, Postcommunist Memory Politics, and the Rise of Populism - Michael Bernhard, University of Florida

• Fracturing Europe: Brexit as Critical Juncture for European Memory - Félix Krawatzek, University of Oxford

• Political Parties, Politicized Memory and Resurgent Populism - Kate Korycki, Queen's University

Chair

• George Soroka Harvard University

Discussant

• David Art Tufts University