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A Postcolonial Reading of the Sonderweg
This article deals with the Sonderweg thesis by reconciling David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley’s criticism of the German Sonderweg with a postcolonial critique of Marxist historicism. The global trajectory of Marxist historiography shows that the «singularity» of the Sonderweg came to be conceptually translated as «particularity» within the Eurocentric and capitalocentric «universality». This sublime transmutation of the singularity into the particularity through the Leninist trope of the «Prussian path» implies the temporalisation of historical spaces in a linear development scheme, which accommodates global historicist time in a twisted form of «first in Europe, then elsewhere». A postcolonial reading of the Sonderweg throws light on Marxist historiographical debates on colonial modernity versus Sonderwege by subjecting the Eurocentric conception of the «Prussian path» to the complexity of global modernity.
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Mass dictatorship and memory as ever present past
\"The landscape of memory studies has been transformed by a growing consciousness of global interconnectedness and the politics of human rights. The essays in this volume of the Mass Dictatorship project explore the entangled pasts of dictatorships, the tensions between de-territorializing and re-territorializing memories, and the competitive construction of memories of the intersubjective past from a world-wide perspective. Written from a variety of differing historical perspectives, cultural positions, and disciplinary backgrounds, the collection searches for historical accountability across the generations of the post-war era\"--Publisher's website.
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Conference Report Coercion and Consent: A Comparative Study of ‘Mass Dictatorship’
What is the difference between pre-modern despotism and modern dictatorship? The answer is simple: despotism does not need massive backing from below, but dictatorship presupposes the support of the masses. This simple distinction is the starting point of the three-year ‘mass dictatorship’ project, launched in December 2002 with the financial support of the Korea Research Foundation and Hanyang University, Seoul. The project aims to position Korean debates about coming to terms with its dictatorial past in the context of other countries' experiences with dictatorship.
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From Hard History to Soft History: Cultural Histories of the Korean Working Class
Korean democratic trade unionism entered the international spotlight for its militancy and massive upsurge in the 1990s, while labor movements in advanced countries had been on the ebb. When the lifelong work of “heavy modernity” was replaced by the labor flexibility of “light modernity,” workers' solidarity gave way to individual workers' solitude. This explains why the trade union movement is more powerful in developing countries such as Korea, Brazil, and South Africa, where Fordism prevails. It is a paradox indeed that Fordism, with its massive production system, was a fertile soil for labor as well as capital.
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Rosa Luxemburg on the dialectics of proletarian internationalism and social patriotism
Suggests that Luxemburg's universalist stance of enlightened Marxism implies a valuable criticism of Third World or populist socialism. The historical evaluation of Luxemburg should be freed not only from the international nihilist view of some rightist social patriots, but also from the eurocentric view of classical and some contemporary western Marxists. (Original abstract-amended)
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The Configuration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories
Modern historiography has often been a tool to legitimate the nation-state ‘objectively and scientifically’. Despite its proclamation of objectivity and scientific inquiry, modern historiography has promoted the political project of constructing national history. Its underlying logic was to find the course of historical development that led to the nation-state. Thus, national history has made the nation-state both the subject and the object of its own discipline. The ‘Prussian school’ provides a typical example. Not only was Ranke the official historiographer of the Prussian state, Droysen’s distinction between ‘History’ (die Geschichte) and ‘private transactions’ (Geschäfte) also reveals the hidden politics that
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\The Good Old Cause\ in the New Polish Left Historiography
Lim discusses the attempts of Polish left historians to rediscover the historical inheritance of the socialist past that had been distorted and disregarded both by the Polish United Workers Party and the rightist opposition.
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Wildt, Michael. Volksgemeinschaft als Selbstermächtigung. Gewalt gegen Juden in der deutschen Provinz 1919 bis 1939. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2007, 432 pp. EUR 28.00
In doing so, they left a lasting imprint on the occupational, political, religious, musical, recreational, and community life of northern West Virginia helping to build a transnational culture that challenges the simplistic stereotype of West Virginia and Appalachia as a culturally homogeneous place where time stood still. Individuals meander between self-empowerment and self-mobilization through historical moments. [...]any viable explanation will be multi-linear rather than uni-linear, pluralist rather than dualist, and ambiguous rather than unambiguous. Book Reviews 327 order of the citizen.2 Most recently, Mann has warned of the potential danger of democracy when the majority tyrannizes minorities, especially in certain multi-ethnic environments.3 The spectre of Carl Schmitt still haunts us when we learn that Hutus massacred Tutsis under the slogan of majoritarian democracy. Even social democrats, who clearly objected to the violent attacks, were in favour of ending alleged Jewish supremacy, once and for all, and of restricting the Jews to certain spheres of activity.
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