Andreza de Souza Santos, Graham Dawson and Jocelyn Alexander give presentations the third panel. Chaired by Kathrin Bachleitner.
Panel 3: How do Local Memories and Grassroots Mnemonic Actors Challenge National Grand Narratives?
Andreza de Souza Santos (University of Oxford), 'Inconvenient Narratives: Slavery recounted in Brazil’s former gold mines'
Graham Dawson (University of Brighton), 'Grassroots oral history and the politics of ‘hegemonic memory’ on West Belfast interfaces after the Northern Ireland war'
Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), 'Gukurahundi and the question of recognition in Zimbabwe'
chaired by Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford).
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Memory politics worldwide is often shaped by the dynamics of relations and tensions between hegemonic narratives, counter-memories and silent communities at the global, national and local levels. Transnational advocacy movements, international agents and organisations influence the application of terminologies and frameworks in which global hegemonic narratives operate. State actors influence and shape hegemonic narratives, silence others or deny their existence in order to legitimise their...