Repression

"This volume aims to ‘bring the state back into terrorism studies’ and fill the notable gap that currently exists in our understanding of the ways in which states employ terrorism as a political strategy of internal governance or foreign policy.

Within this broader context, the volume has a number of specific aims. First, it aims to make the argument that state terrorism is a valid and analytically useful concept which can do much to illuminate our understanding of state repression and governance, and illustrate the varieties of actors, modalities, aims, forms, and outcomes of this form of contemporary political violence. Secondly, by discussing a rich and diverse set of empirical case studies of contemporary state terrorism this volume explores and tests theoretical notions, generates new questions and provides a resource for further research. Thirdly, it contributes to a critical-normative approach to the study of terrorism more broadly and challenges dominant approaches and perspectives which assume that states, particularly Western states, are primarily victims and not perpetrators of terrorism. Given the scarceness of current and past research on state terrorism, this volume will make a genuine contribution to the wider field, particularly in terms of ongoing efforts to generate more critical approaches to the study of political terrorism.

This book will be of much interest to students of critical terrorism studies, critical security studies, terrorism and political violence and political theory in general."

Las memorias de Mauro Martín Peña, concejal comunista del Ayuntamiento de La Laguna (Tenerife) durante el período del Frente Popular y, posteriormente, uno de los miles de canarios represaliados, constituye un valioso testimonio sobre el período de la Guerra Civil y la posguerra en Tenerife. En estas memorias, escritas a mitad de los años 80, el autor analiza los distintos centros de reclusión (Fyffes, barcos prisión, cárcel de La Laguna, etc) y aporta un valioso testimonio sobre las desapariciones y asl vivencias en las cárceles franquistas, incluyendo referencias sobre su paso por los batallones de trabajo y la difícil vuelta a su municipio de nacimiento tras varios años de detención.

"The aim of this study is to describe some of the advantages of participant observation in the study of the urban homeless. The
specific way in which the homeless subsist has  led local politicians to call them “the Clients of Repression”, thus the title of the article. Presently, the original concept of long-term stationary participant observation – as seen, for example, in Malinowski’s  pioneering fieldwork – is not so common in the study of contemporary complex societies. Urban anthropologists increasingly focus on shorter iterative research visits among analyzed populations. In this article I will try to define participant observation and summarize the methodological procedures applied by Czech and foreign ethnographers of the homelessness. In addition, I will describe a day of my fieldwork spent in active participation in the common activities of  “the Clients of Repression”, and I will accentuate some specific findings obtained during this day. Finally, I will emphasize some of the problematic aspects of my fieldwork (i.e. law violation) which
constitute an inseparable part of participant observation among the homeless."

Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. Much of the story surrounds Kim Il Sung: his Korean nationalism and eagerness for Korean autarky; his efforts to balance the need for foreign aid and his hope for an independent foreign policy; and what seems to be his good sense of timing in doing in internal rivals without attracting Soviet retaliation. Through a series of comparisons not only with the USSR but also with Albania, Romania, Yugoslavia, China, and Vietnam, the author highlights unique features of North Korean communism during the period. The book covers ongoing effects of Japanese colonization, the experiences of diverse Korean factions during World War II, and the weakness of the Communist Party in South Korea.

"When reminded of something we would prefer
not to think about, we often try to exclude the unwanted
memory from awareness. Recent research indicates that
people control unwanted memories by stopping memory
retrieval, using mechanisms similar to those used to stop
reflexive motor responses. Controlling unwanted memories
is implemented by the lateral prefrontal cortex, which acts
to reduce activity in the hippocampus, thereby impairing
retention of those memories. Individual differences in the
efficacy of these systems may underlie variation in how well
people control intrusive memories and adapt in the aftermath
of trauma. This research supports the existence of an
active forgetting process and establishes a neurocognitive
model for inquiry into motivated forgetting."

Esta autoguía de la Memoria Histórica por el municipio de La Laguna es una invitación a conocer aquellos lugares donde tuvieron lugar algunos de los hechos más destacados de la Segunda República y la Guerra Civil en Tenerife. En esta guía podrá descubrir los rincones más conocidos de la ciudad con el recuerdo de un tiempo no tan lejano, un tiempo de memoria.

This article studies the memories in the Mexican public space over the past forty years. Although it of 1968 is possible to find a memory of the denunciation of repression associated with October 2 since 1969, it is only from the mid–1980s that we can locate a memory of praise of the student movement as a whole, since it is considered to have paved the way for democratization of the country. The article analyzes what present narratives are enunciated and events recalled, and what kind of past is recovered. Whit this purpose public memories are historicized from the various political presents from which they are expressed.

Both ‘repression' and ‘suppression' are said to involve removing mental content from awareness. However, repression is generally said to be unconscious whereas suppression is said to be conscious. The meanings of the terms ‘unconscious' and ‘conscious', though, are open to a variety of interpretations and so the validity of this distinction is uncertain . This paper discusses the relationship between repression and suppression and whether conscious awareness distinguishes these processes. Consciousness and unconscious are discussed in terms of a relational account of cognition where ‘knowing' is understood as a relation between a cognising subject and a cognised object term. On this view, problems arise from confusing consciousness and unconsciousness with properties or qualities of mental processes. Examined in this light, the present analysis reveals that repression can become conscious and that suppression can occur unconsciously. The role of ‘resistance' and the recognition of a series of defenses are discussed.