Stretching Selves Through Empathy: the Role of Collective and Official Memories

Richard Ned Lebow*

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Abstract

Our identities consist of multiple identifications derived from roles, affiliations, and biographies, whose contents are shaped and reshaped as social resources. Nationalists and fundamentalists encourage us to construct vertical identities that emphasize the nationality of religion at the expense of other identifications. I explore mechanisms—including memorialization of collective memory—that can encourage us to reject horizontal identities in favor of vertical ones that emphasize our multiplicity and what we share with others in stigmatized groups.

Original languageEnglish
JournalInternational Journal of Politics, Culture and Society
Early online date10 Nov 2018
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 10 Nov 2018

Keywords

  • Conflict resolution
  • Ethnic and national conflict
  • Identity
  • Self-fashioning
  • Solidarity
  • Tolerance

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Stretching Selves Through Empathy: the Role of Collective and Official Memories'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this