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Constituting Public Emotions through Memory: Interviewing Witnesses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Nükhet Sirman
Nükhet Sirman*
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Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University
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This paper is about the process of constituting public memory and subjectivity in the context of post-colonial transformation. It hopes to raise a number of questions about the context in which memory is produced and how context affects the way such memory is then transmitted. It argues that the process of memory cannot be truly understood without including emotions in the analysis. I will attempt to show that, when memory is considered in conjunction with emotions, what gets told might often become destabilized by what gets transmitted. I will show, firstly, that memories recounted in life story interviews become part of the process of generational transmission and, secondly, that these memories are anchored to emotions which become the main content of transmission. And yet, because of the way emotions circulate in discourse, emotions get separated from the objects they were attached to in the original discourse and thus destabilize the process of transmission.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 34: Special Issue on Social Memory , Spring 2006 , pp. 31 - 46
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2006

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