Legacies of Authoritarian Opposition and Repression

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This session brings together papers by senior and junior scholars who are concerned with memorialization and cultural legacies of authoritarian repression and anti-authoritarian resistance. What unites them is their historical perspective and rigorous methods of investigation. But they approach the questions of persistence of values that motivate behavior using data from different parts of the world and different authoritarianisms. Likewise, the mechanisms of transmission they investigate range from memorials and textbooks to family passed-on values.

Sub Unit

• Division 44: Democracy and Autocracy

Individual Presentations

• National Narratives: Representations of Independence in History Textbooks - Biz Herman, International Rescue Committee

• Repression and Cultural Memory: Individual-Level Evidence from Argentina - Jane Esberg, University of Pennsylvania

• Accountability from Above: Transitional Justice and Human Rights - Pearce Edwards, Louisiana State University; Kelly Elizabeth Morrison, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Between Streets and Shadows: Responses to Mass-Based Threats in Authoritarianism - Haley Allen DeMarco, Yale University

Chair

• Monika Nalepa University of Chicago

Discussant

• Hanna Folsz Stanford University