Whose Memory? Which Future?

Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe

AvBarbara Tornquist-Plewa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del 18 i serien Contemporary European History

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Beskrivning

Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together interdisciplinary case studies conducted in Central and Eastern European cities, exploring how present-day inhabitants "remember" past instances of ethnic cleansing, and how they understand the cultural heritage of groups that vanished in their wake. Together these contributions offer insights into more universal questions of collective memory and the formation of national identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-05-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary European History
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN:9781785331220

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Barbara Tornquist-Plewa is a professor of Eastern and Central European Studies at Lund University in Sweden. In the years 2005-2017 she was the head of the Centre for European Studies in Lund., 2012-2016 she led the European research network "In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe" financed by the EU's COST-programme. She is the editor and author of a number of books and articles in several languages. The latest one is the anthology: The Twentieth Century in European Memory, Amsterdam 2017, co-edited with Tea Sindbaek Andersen.

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"Exploring a new avenue, the study of cultural trauma, Whose Memory? Which Future? provides an original, timely and singularly stimulating contribution to several subfields of memory studies. Owing to its strong comparative dimension, the book will serve as a sound conceptual, methodological and critical springboard for scholars working on post-conflict memory and cultural trauma but also for students of urban heritage management or post-socialist political cultures... Besides the potential benefits for the cultivation of an integrating European memory discourse, the volume's contribution to the comparative study of cultural memory in Europe is thus hard to overstate." Bohemia

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionBarbara Tornquist-PlewaChapter 1. Wroclaw - Changes in Memory NarrativesIgor Pietraszewski and Barbara Tornquist-PlewaChapter 2. Between Old Animosity and New Mourning - Meanings of Czech Post-Communist Memorials of Mass Killings of the Sudeten GermansTomas SniegonChapter 3. Polishness as a Site of Memory and Arena for Construction of a Multicultural Heritage in L'vivEleonora NarvseliusChapter 4. Memories of Ethnic Diversity in Local Newspapers - the 600th Anniversary of ChernivtsiNiklas Bernsand Chapter 5. Zaratini: Memoriesand Absence of the Italian Community of ZadarTea SindbaekChapter 6. Echo of Silence. Memory, Politics and Heritage in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina, a case study: VisegradDragan Nikolic Chapter 7. Comparative Remarks and ConclusionsBarbara Tornquist-Plewa