Disputed Memory: Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

by Tea Sindbæk Andersen (Editor), Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Editor)

Overview

The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th century in the region. Written by an international group of scholars from a diversity of disciplines, the chapters approach memory disputes in methodologically innovative ways, studying representations and negotiations of disputed pasts in different media, including monuments, museum exhibitions, individual and political discourse and electronic social media. Analyzing memory disputes in various local, national and transnational contexts, the chapters demonstrate the political power and social impact of painful and disputed memories. The book brings new insights into current memory disputes in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It contributes to the understanding of processes of memory transmission and negotiation across borders and cultures in Europe, emphasizing the interconnectedness of memory with emotions, mediation and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110437638
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	06/20/2016
Series:	Media and Cultural Memory , #24
Pages:	387
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tea Sindbaek Andersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Lund University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Disputed Memories in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Tea Sindbæk Andersen Barbara Törnquist-Plewa 1

Part 1 Transnational Memory Politics

Global Memory and Dialogic Forgetting: The Armenian Case Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke 21

Overcoming Memory Conflicts: Russia, Finland and the Second World War Tuomas Forsberg 37

Sorry for Srebrenica? Public Apologies and Genocide in the Western Balkans Davide Denti 65

Part 2 Sites of Memory Transmission

The Spatial Choreography of Emotion at Berlin's Memorials: Experience, Ambivalence and the Ethics of Secondary Witnessing Sophie Oliver 95

The Universal Victim - Representing Jews and Roma in a European Holocaust Museum Birga U. Meyer 123

The Memory of the Roma Holocaust in Ukraine: Mass Graves, Memory Work and the Politics of Commemoration Andrej Kotljarchuk 149

Part 3 Local and Marginal Memory

Forced Migration and Identity in the Memories of Post-War Expellees from Poland and Ukraine Anna Wylegala 177

Forming a Common European Memory of WWII from a Peripheral Perspective: Anthropological Insight into the Struggle for Recognition of Estonians' WWII Memories in Europe Inge Melchior 203

Red Carnations on Victory Day and Military Marches on UFA Day? Remembered History of WWII in Ukraine Yuliya Yurchuk 227

Part 4 Memorial Media Spaces

Framing the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Latvian Legion: Transnational History-Writing on Wikipedia Martinš Kaprans 249

Negotiating Memory in Online Social Networks: Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Russian Discussions of Soviet Rule and Anti-Soviet Resistance Volodymyr Kulyk 273

Football and Memories of Croatian Fascism on Facebook Tea Sindbæk Andersen 297

Collective Memory and Institutional Reform in Albania Elvin Gjevori 319

Clashes between National and Post-national European Views on Commemorating the Past: The Case of the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw Igor Pietraszewski Barbara Törnquist-Plewa 351

Notes on contributors 373

Index of names 377

Subject index 379

Editorial Reviews

"[...] the volume successfully displays transnational memory movements in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe [...]"
Sahra Rausch in: KULT_online 54 (2018)

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