Calls for a shared reconciliatory memory intensify, not end, memory conflicts

Evidence

Given the many unforeseen twists and turns in recent debates, it would be naïve to attempt to provide any serious outlook on the developments. Calls for a reconciliatory, common memory, as far as I can see, have not brought an end to the debates. They even appear to have contributed to intensifying rivalries and conflicts. As things are now, one option is to think more in terms of a modus vivendi that would allow several rival memories to coexist without necessarily merging into one new master narrative – while at the same time letting scholars do their historical research without expecting them to function as pacifiers between conflicting groups in society. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1248

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s question about whether rational correction against threat-hardened belief backfires — here an attempted reconciliatory-memory correction intensifies the rivalry rather than dissolving it. — connects to: Historical memory is the chief counterforce to functionalized one-dimensional thought — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 409
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the backfire pattern here parallel the reader’s literature on beliefs hardening under explicit correction, and does a modus vivendi model generalize across expellee and pied-noir cases?

Broader Connections

• Historical memory is the chief counterforce to functionalized one-dimensional thought #complicates (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 409