Kollektives Gedächtnis in der Politikwissenschaft – von Distanz zur Symbiose. Ein Forschungsbericht

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Studies on the relation of collective memory and political science – from distance to symbiosis

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A cursory overview of the political science literature reveals that collective memory is not a prominent issue in the field. This remark is a routinely repeated theme in the limited number of political science publications pertaining to the problems of collective memory. How-ever, this trend is slowly starting to turn around. The growing importance of this issue as a part of political science research can be explained through the declining role of positivism as the dominant research paradigm and the increasing importance of constructivism privileging ideas, culture and discourse as explanatory factors. This article provides an overview of the main themes considered by the studies at the intersection of political science and collective memory studies. Among them are: the political significance of identity constructed through the references to collective memory of the past; the issue of retrospective legitimacy of multifarious objects and phenomena to maintain power relations and finally the political construction of knowledge about the past.

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Bibliographie: Lipiński, Artur: Kollektives Gedächtnis in der Politikwissenschaft – von Distanz zur Symbiose. Ein Forschungsbericht, JB historie, 1-2013, S. 247-268. https://doi.org/10.3224/jbh.v7i1.15