This article examines responses to place-of-memory making that provoke the memory unmaking practices which constitute the politics of forgetting. Based on in-depth interviews, participant observations, and archival research the work focuses on two tragic incidents in South Korean history, the May 18 Democratic Uprising in Gwangju in 1980 and the Sewol Ferry disaster on 16 April 2014. In both cases, once the indurate actions of the conservative national governments in power at both times became known, they provoked nationwide anger that precipitated each regime's eventual downfall. Despite widespread outrage, those in government during the respective events had support from right-wing organisations as well as private citizens both in the actions taken and the ensuing politics of forgetting that enabled them to obscure these two tragedies. We argue that the erosion of memory places using the politics of forgetting exemplified by these two events is the result of each governing party's search for exoneration. By focusing on the positive as well as the negative reactions to the memories in question, this study expands discussions on the diversity of spatial strategies that inform the politics of forgetting and remembering.

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遗忘的政治：取消记忆和对记忆地点制作的反应

本文研究了对记忆地点制造的反应，这些反应引发了构成遗忘政治的记忆取消实践。. 基于深入访谈、参与者观察和档案研究，该作品聚焦韩国历史上的两起悲惨事件，即 1980 年 5 月 18 日的光州民主起义和 2014 年 4 月 16 日的世越渡轮灾难。两次执政的保守国家政府的顽固行动为人所知，他们激起了全国的愤怒，最终导致了每个政权的垮台。尽管普遍愤怒，但在相应事件中，政府官员在采取的行动和随后的遗忘政治方面得到了右翼组织和普通公民的支持，这使他们能够掩盖这两场悲剧。我们认为，以这两个事件为例，使用遗忘政治对记忆位置的侵蚀是每个执政党的结果。s 寻求免责。通过关注对相关记忆的积极和消极反应，本研究扩展了对影响遗忘和记忆政治的空间策略多样性的讨论。