Veiled apologetics and insurgent nostalgia: Sociogenesis of contested memories of the Marcos dictatorship

• Main Authors: Uyheng, Joshua, Roxas, Gilana Kim T, Herras, Martina M
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: collective memory; contested memory; democratic transition; historical revisionism; living historical memories; Marcos dictatorship; social representations; sociogenesis; Other Psychology; Psychology; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/282; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajsp.12429
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Across many nascent democracies, living historical memories of past conflicts are vulnerable to contestation. Past scholarship explains such mnemonic dissonances as the outcome of either broad cultural scripts or top-down political maneuvering. Building on these insights, we utilize the concept of s...