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"'In the Eyes of the New Government, We Are Covered in Mud': Cultural Memory, Generational Conflict, and the Imprint of Militarization on Two Former Military Communities"
"'In the Eyes of the New Government, We Are Covered in Mud': Cultural Memory, Generational Conflict, and the Imprint of Militarization on Two Former Military Communities"
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151017
- ISBN
- 9798381946833
- DDC
- 960
- 서명/저자
- In the Eyes of the New Government, We Are Covered in Mud: Cultural Memory, Generational Conflict, and the Imprint of Militarization on Two Former Military Communities
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Indiana University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 316 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-09, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Lichtenstein, Alex.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Almost three decades into democracy, the apartheid regime's military shadow persists over post-apartheid southern African society. This is particularly acute for former South African Defence Force African soldiers and their families. I consider how two different military communities, largely composed of former Angolan refugees and militarized Namibian San, developed discrete cultural memory formations that remain largely anchored in foundational histories of militarization. Imprinted or coded by militarization, their cultural memory practices and discourses are not immutable but shaped by their participation and interaction with wider dynamics including the transnational private security industry or a global discourse of human and indigenous peoples' rights.Though militarization persists as a common mnemonic organizing principle, cultural memory within these groups is also differentiated. As I explore in this dissertation, cultural memory narratives within these groups reflect the imprint of various social conflicts, identities, and positions. To do so, I first examine the imprint of settler colonial mythology amongst white veteran memoirists that served alongside African troops, then the self-identification of some Black veterans as fallen Struggle heroes, or the claim to indigeneity amongst their San counterparts. Next, I consider how militarization fractured and re-made generational dynamics resulting in antiliberal generational critique amongst one of the military communities, and the rise of a middle age gatekeeper class amongst the other. I then shift my focus to considering histories of protest amongst both communities, and the pronouncement of resistance rhetoric amongst veterans' children compared to their relatively silent elders who continue to valorize militarized values of hierarchy and obedience. I then consider how generational discourse shapes cultural memory about indigenous knowledge along gendered and generational lines. Finally, I conclude by examining the misrepresentation of these communities by outsiders.Drawing on 116 oral history interviews, consultation of a dozen archives and ample visual cultural material, this dissertation offers novel insights into the nature of cultural memory about and within two mythologized African staffed military communities. Considering both historical and contemporary dynamics, I demonstrate the centrality of the military as an institution in cultural memory and community life decades after disbandment.
- 일반주제명
- African history
- 일반주제명
- African studies
- 일반주제명
- Military history
- 키워드
- Apartheid
- 키워드
- Memory
- 키워드
- Militarization
- 키워드
- Oral history
- 기타저자
- Indiana University History
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-09A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0093.
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■650 4▼aMilitary history
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■653 ▼aGenerational conflict
■653 ▼aMemory
■653 ▼aMilitarization
■653 ▼aOral history
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