Refugees, IDPs, & Identity in the Republic of Georgia

the disintegration of shared narratives may risk a loss of collective memory and identity, but it also opens the door to a broader and more equitable representation of diverse histories and experiences. In recognizing the historical context of centralized narratives, we understand that while the scale and impact of narrative fragmentation are novel... See more

Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report

the multiplicity of experiences vs collective memory and identity. it would be interesting to explore how individual povs manifest into one cohesive one.

History can weigh like a millstone; archaic distinctions and practices can drag upon our freedom and agency. But detachment from the past has its own pitfalls. It means that the past that survives is a default genealogy, a mere reflection of the status quo, fixed and irrelevant. It loses its living value, its capacity to help the current generation

Lizzie O'Shea • Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

it would be interesting to explore how idps are detached from history and their past. i think the answer is obvious that they’re not, but as a whole, it seems that georgia is detaching from its past — it would be cool to see the impact of that in context of idps. i guess that means i’d have to interview both idps and others

Historical content can be an incredibly informative resource, telling us how people lived and thought. But we must remember that it’s a small fraction of contemporaneous material that survives, even as we hope, of course, that it’s our own existence that is ultimately memorialized. Sometimes it is through the gaps that we read history or are forced... See more

s.e. smith • What happens when the internet disappears?

It is a challenge to the rest of the world “to debase themselves in their turn, to deny their own values … to sacrifice everything by which a human being or a culture has some value in its own eyes.”

Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World

Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.” But such a statement hides many questions and challenges. Who gets to imagine these futures? Who feels safe and supported enough, economically, politically... See more

Rahel Aima • Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds

Therefore, whilst dealing with post-conflict communities subject to a transition from negative to a positive peace , individual and social, past and present memories, require empathy and trustworthy responses .

Theory | uniformnovember

understand how their identity/position is treated post-conflict — not only materially, but also socially

Traditional national identity is perceived as a singular, overarching organizing principle of a person’s identity, whereas coordi-nations recognize and embrace plurality. Individuals can identify with multiple coordi-nations, allowing for the coexistence of multiple identities.

Primavera de Filippi • Coordi-Nations: A New Institutional Structure for Global Cooperation

What if the global community, facing existential threats, had to decide which aspects of their culture and identity to preserve in a digital vault — and which to leave behind? Who gets to make those decisions, and what does it mean for future generations?

Abril Chimal • Speculative Futures of Humanitarian Aid — IFRC Solferino Academy

what aspects of their identity is preserved/erased — what factors contribute to the preservation/erasure of certain aspects over others?

Ethnic identity is a relatively new construct that grew out of the ethnic-consciousness movements of the early 1970s in reaction to historically oppressive racial typologies. Ethnicity, nonetheless, is similar to race in that both are social constructions. - Organista et al., 2018.