How the past weighs on the present : Social representations of history and their role in identity politics

摘要: Socially shared representations of history have been important in creating, maintaining and changing a people's identity. Their management negotiation are central to interethnic international relations. We present narrative framework represent how collectively significant events become (selectively) incorporated social that enable positioning ethnic, national supranational identities. This perspective creates diachronic (temporal) links between the functional (e.g. realistic conflict theory), identity, cognitive perspectives on intergroup The charters embedded these condition nations with similar interests adopt different political stances dealing current events, can influence perceived stability legitimacy orders. They also instrumental determining identity strategies for reacting negative comparisons, relationships ethnic