The decolonization of Algeria involved an anticolonial expansion of rights and the creation of a new nation. This article investigates how French human rights and antiracist organizations dealt with national identity politics in Algeria from 1945 to 1962. The focus is on the Ligue des droits de l’homme (LDH), Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme (LICA), and Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peoples (MRAP). The activists within these organizations gradually reconsidered their negative attitudes towards self-determination in the colonies during the Algerian War of Independence. However, the tension between recognizing the right to national self-determination and defending individual civil liberties in the colonies prevented the activists from fundamentally changing their discourses or playing a significant role in decolonization. All three organizations defended a pluralistic Algeria, but none of them thoroughly confronted the religious and cultural dimensions of emancipation.

La décolonisation de l’Algérie a suscité à la fois une expansion anticoloniale des droits et la construction d’une nouvelle nation. Cet article examine comment trois organisations des droits de l’homme et antiraciste en France (LICA, LDH et MRAP) ont confronté le nationalisme algérien pendant la décolonisation. Les militants au sein de ces organisations ont progressivement reconsidéré leurs attitudes négatives à l’égard de l’autodétermination dans les colonies pendant la guerre d’Algérie. Cependant, la tension entre la reconnaissance du droit à l’autodétermination nationale et la défense des libertés civiles individuelles dans les colonies a paralysé les trois organisations, les rendant incapables de transformer fondamentalement leurs discours et de jouer un rôle significatif dans le processus de décolonisation. Toutes trois ont défendu une Algérie pluraliste, mais aucune n’a véritablement affronté la dimension religieuse et culturelle de l’émancipation.

I ett samtal med Respons diskuterar sociologen Philip N. Cohen hur forskning och politik kan förenas i skuggan av den politiska utvecklingen i USA.

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability perfectly intertwined with cultural memory beyond borders.

By critically reflecting on popular streaming media series, the book identifies their impact on the global circulation of cultural memory, their learning potential for educational purposes, and the societal challenges and opportunities that emerge from the ubiquitous streaming media penetration and potential for participatory practices. It also investigates how series available worldwide on commercial platforms such as Netflix and Max contribute to the global circulation of cultural memories, in addition to illuminating the ethical, (un)sustainable, and educational concerns involved in the fictionalization of the past.

Drawing on the authors’ expertise in media studies and history, this transdisciplinary book will interest scholars in the fields of media studies, cultural studies, memory studies, history, transmedia studies, education, postdigital studies, television studies, social communication, sociology, and philosophy.

The article constitutes an interdisciplinary study of the comic play På Gröna Lund (1856) by Hedvig von Numers, viewed as a significant contribution to the cultural memory of Sweden’s Gustavian era (1772–1809). Building on recent theoretical perspectives, the workings of cultural memory are investigated in sev-eral dimensions. To begin with, by studying the conditions of its staging and its reception by an audience, we investigate how an experience of historical authen-ticity was created. In the next step, the historical content of the play is interpreted and contextualised by relating it to popular and scholarly historiography of the period, and by studying its use of comic conventions in the service of historical representation. Taken together, these approaches show the complexity of nine-teenth century memory culture when confronted with the recent Gustavian past.

I ett samtal med Respons diskuterar den amerikanska filosofen Martha Nussbaum en ny djurrättsfilosofi som bejakar alla levande varelsers potential att utvecklas och blomstra.

I ett samtal med Respons förklarar sociologen Eva Illouz framgången för israelisk populism och oroar sig för den antisemitism som bland annat framträtt i universitetsmiljöer efter Hamas attack mot Israel.

Emotions play a significant role in history education, yet their impact remains a subject of debate. This theoretical article investigates how integrating perspectives on emotions from the humanities, particularly the history of emotions, can enrich research in history didactics and educational history. It proposes a three-step analytical model to examine the evolving role of emotions by focusing on (1) policy, (2) content and (3) interactions. This model facilitates research on emotions in history teaching in both contemporary and historical contexts, with a focus on the representation of emotions through language. The analytical framework is tested through a case study of history education in the 1860s Swedish grammar school. The author argues for recognising emotions as a crucial component of history education and incorporating concepts from the history of emotions into both didactics and educational history. This approach offers new insights into the emotional dimensions of history education, highlighting opportunities, challenges and areas of conflict.

This chapter discusses how several repositories of testimonies from World War II refugees in Sweden were archived and consequently either remembered or forgotten. By analysing and contextualising these collections in relation to different forms of memory politics, the chapter reflects on how remembrance of the Second World War has been shaped in Sweden and the process by which traumatic memories of refugees have been integrated or not into the country’s cultural memory. It is only at the turn of the millennium, with the increasing impact of global Holocaust remembrance, that these collections of documents, after a long and intricate journey, have attracted renewed scholarly and public interest and begun to inform the Swedish cultural memory of the war.