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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2025] Dynamics of Power under Occupation
DESCRIPTION:Examining “power” means addressing specific constellations of subordination and dominance in social contexts. Chances of asserting power are highest where strong asymmetries between the various groups of actors involved exist, something that is a fundamental characteristic of occupation. The occupations of World War Two were based upon asymmetries between occupiers and occupied, beginning with the occupiers’ monopoly on military force but including various other instruments of power. Historiography (especially in Europe) has neglected such dynamics of occupation to a certain degree until lately, focusing instead on the conduct of “war” and the “peace” that followed. As a result, the wider German public is unaware that most victims between 1939 and 1945 in occupied countries were civilians, who died not as a result of fighting but because of German atrocities committed under occupation. Nowadays, political demands for “strengthening diplomacy” obscure the fact that Russia is committing systematic human rights violations in the occupied (and annexed) territories of Ukraine. Therefore, the aim of this panel is to take a closer look at occupations as part of the conduct of war, occupations as part of a transition to peace, and the connections between occupations past and occupations present. We will look at both Asia and Europe, and include historical, sociological and legal frameworks. Louise Young (University of Wisconsin–Madison) investigates the history of Japan as an occupying power as well as an occupied society, examining relations of power under colonial, wartime and Cold War occupations. Masha Cerovic (EHESS) addresses the problem of “collaboration”, linking the vexed memory politics of World War Two to the present situation in Ukraine. Stefanie Bock (University of Marburg) analyzes occupation from the perspective of international law.
Der Beitrag Dynamics of Power under Occupation erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2025.
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