Hollands, Robert, Berthet M-A, Nada E, Bjertnes V.Creative dark matter rising? Struggling over the future of alternative cultural spaces in the city of Geneva, The Sociological Imagination. (2017) Green Utopias: Environmental Hope Before and After Nature. Intense paradoxes of memory: Researching moral questions about remembering the socialist past, History and Anthropology 20:2, 183-199. Power and vulnerability: Secrecy, social relationships and the East German Stasi, Perspectives on Europe 45:1, 46-52. ‘Politics of memory’, Chapter 60 in the Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, edited by W. Perspectives on European Politics and Society 18:1, 96-109. The local Aufarbeitung (re-working) of the SED-dictatorship: Governing memory to safe the future. Narratives in the Making: Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present. Socialising place attachment: Place, social memory and embodied affordances, Ageing & Society 36:8, 1645-1667. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Personhood and the Life Course. As a result, it aims to challenge narratives about former citizens of the GDR as 'moulded' by the 'SED-dictatorship' and lacking the civic virtues necessary to participate in contemporary democratic life. The project is based on the hypothesis that navigating the 'public secret' of the Stasi relied on varied forms of political agency and gave rise to many kinds of political identity. In doing so it pays heed to how information and understandings also passed across the inner-German border. Plus, how it was reflected on in literature written after the Stasi-archives opened. It puts these explorations into conversation with a study of how such knowledge was represented in the literature at the time of the GDR. This project investigates how different kinds of knowledge were circulated through networks, including: But, what and how East Germans knew about the ‘secret police’. It overturns the approach of existing research to ask not what the ‘all-powerful’ Stasi knew about society. This three-year project explores questions of secrecy and power in relation to: Cluster members have worked together to explore the discursive and political history of meritocracy and the kinds of futures it opens up and closes down, as well as the temporalities of institutional change in relation to the future of student engagement in HEĪnselma Gallinat (Newcastle), Joanne Sayner (Newcastle), Sara Jones (Birmingham), and Grit Wesser (Newcastle).political, social and individual memory-work, in particular its significance for identity and personhood, older age, the moral significance of remembering and memorialisation, the bio-technological modification of memory.the creative affordances of social memory and place for senses of identity and belonging, as well as social exclusion the intersection of pasts and futures in relation to urban and social regeneration, social transformation and nationhood, the idea of community and empathy.the study of the recent past from a historical sociology and anthropology perspective the future-directed government of memory in nation-building and the role of future anticipation in present-day policy work.the imagination and practice of alternatives within and beyond capitalist democracies visions of the Anthropocene and environmentally sustainable futures the social importance of utopias.They have real importance in institutional and everyday life. Social practices of remembering and commemoration, hoping and dreaming, are all simultaneously individual and collective. Just as visions of the future are related to understandings of the past whilst also shaping actions in the present. Memories of the past are shaped by visions of the future as well as conditions and contexts of the present. To learn more about our conversations, follow our our blog or join our mailing list by emailing us. They speak to some of the most pressing problems of today. Our friendly cluster opens up engaged discussions across the boundaries of these ideas. other forms of temporality, especially in relation to developments in social theory.social and cultural perspectives on memory and constructions of the past.We have well established research strengths in:
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