Memory Laws as Deterrence Devices in State Ontological Security-Seeking
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Maria Mälksoo - Other
Memory laws regulate the legitimate frames of remembering the past righteous and perpetrators. But who is supposed to be afraid of memory laws? What do memory laws seek to prevent and how is their deterrent effect supposed to be achieved? What can they practically expect to avoid from taking place? Building on the collaborative Volkswagen Foundation-supported MEMOCRACY-project (2021-2024), this talk will engage Central and East European memory laws as unorthodox deterrence devices in national and international ontological security politics. I conceptualise mnemopolitical deterrence and assess the aims and sought effects of various CEE memory laws.
10 Mar 2022
Event (Workshop)
Title | Oxford Workshop on the Politics of Memory |
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Date | 10/03/2022 → 10/03/2022 |
Location | Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford |
City | Oxford |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
Degree of recognition | International event |
- memory laws, militant memocracy, ontological security, mnemopolitical deterrence, Central and Eastern Europe
Research areas
Related Research outputs (3)
- Published
Militant memocracy in International Relations: Mnemonical status anxiety and memory laws in Eastern Europe
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
Who’s afraid of memory laws? Introducing ‘militant memocracy’ in International Relations
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Commissioned
- Published
A ritual approach to deterrence: I am, therefore I deter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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