Groups channel their history through trusted non-state institutions when the state disavows it

Evidence

For many Europeans from Algeria this commemorative, heritage-inflected aspect is a driving force for their creation of these sites and their participation in the events that take place at them. The religious framework is seen as a means for rendering memory enduring within a specific institutional setting. Europeans from Algeria do not place their hopes – not to say their belief in protection or recognition of their history and its concrete traces – in state or political institutions, but in the Church. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1047

Categorization

• XREF: Institutional trust substitution: the Church, not the French state, is the recognized guarantor of identity - highly relevant to how solidarity survives hostile political correction. — connects to: Erasing a group’s past erases its claim on the nation-state; Trust can be systematically dissolved while a society is preserved — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1759

Broader Connections

• Erasing a group’s past erases its claim on the nation-state #expands (0.95)
• Trust can be systematically dissolved while a society is preserved #complicates (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1759