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Research On Villages Memory Of Disasters

Posted on:2016-08-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q ChengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2296330464454492Subject:Sociology
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Collective memory is not a historical fact which is based on history to restore the truth as fa r as possible, but a distinctive social construction which is the recollection of the past under the b ackground of contemporary society and it is also affected by social environment. The object of re search on village memory is the collective memory of one whole village. This paper is mainly ab out village memory of disasters. By studying the village memory of "75·8" flood in Xiaoxing vi llage, Henan province, we confirm the construction of the collective memory of disasters and als o the dominant narrative relationship between memory and disasters.This article mainly through the small village in troubled xing Canton, political movement and villages under the background of the fate of the ups and downs of history, a small village in henan province xing "75 ·8" and the construction of village memory to study flooding villages in memory. By means of "75· 8" flood some official data research, concluded that dominant narrative of"75 ·8" flood in henan, and analyzed the influence of the dominant narrative of village memory, as well as the "75 ·8" flood dominant narrative of some of the characteristics. Through to the small village experienced xing "75·8" flood the villagers interviews, obtain first-hand data, it is concluded that small xing village to village "flood" narrative, and its characteristics. And the people for some special characters or special events will have some special memory, to analyze the narrative and dominant narrative of different village. Through to the small village reconstruction xing change the living environment of the investigation, to study the living environment of the changes of post-disaster village memory.Village community historical background will affect the village way of doing things, affect their way of memory, and for some disasters in the history of historical memory, will make the disaster of the experience they have a longitudinal comparison, thus affecting their memories of past disasters. After the founding of our country through the land reform movement, suppress counter-revolutionary movement, motion and so on a series of political movements, the "cultural revolution" destroyed the feudal ideology in a short time, the rural social structure, the ideology of communism powerful infusion to village the most grass-roots social structure of our country’s society. The series of political and imprison people’s minds, for people’s way of thinking, memory method has a far-reaching influence. For some of the major disasters, in the social stability, the government will have a dominant narrative narrative, try to eliminate negative memories about the disaster. Although the village memory, the more direct directly from the influence of the collective memory of the individual is limited, but still can affect the construction of village memory. Different from that of the dominant narrative village village memory narrative, it more diverse, different groups have different memory. And we are for the memory of an event, usually is and those who have more influence on our special events, special characters, memory, those memories, those special memories also makes the village show performance different concreteness, vividness and dominant narrative. In the "75 · 8" after the flood, our country rural social life up to now has changed, this change also has great influence on people’s memory, it also makes them more calm view of the past suffering of memory.This article through to the small village of xing "75 ·8" flood villages of memory research thinks, disaster village memory is in a particular community under the historical background, it is more specific than the dominant narrative, also more diversified, different groups have different memory, for some special characters and the special event and will have a more profound memory. Disasters the dominant narrative, is a kind of the behavior of power, out of respect for social stability, for some major disasters, will create a framework to eliminate negative memories memories, propaganda as far as possible in the disaster showed some positive energy. Through the study of village memory frame construction for disaster, and analyze its relationship with the dominant narrative, we can live in a public history of micro and macro creates a link between historical process, to explore how to through the individual memory and social memory, the underlying expression and the relationship between the grand narrative.
Keywords/Search Tags:collective memory, village memory, master narrative, "75·8"flood
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