Whose Memory? Which Future?

Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-122-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Reihe: Contemporary European History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Törnquist-Plewa, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Barbara Törnquist-Plewa

Chapter 1. Wroclaw - Changes in Memory Narratives

Igor Pietraszewski and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa

Chapter 2. Between Old Animosity and New Mourning - Meanings of Czech Post-Communist Memorials of Mass Killings of the Sudeten Germans

Tomas Sniegon

Chapter 3. Polishness as a Site of Memory and Arena for Construction of a Multicultural Heritage in L’viv

Eleonora Narvselius

Chapter 4. Memories of Ethnic Diversity in Local Newspapers - the 600th Anniversary of Chernivtsi

Niklas Bernsand

Chapter 5.
Zaratini: Memoriesand Absence of the Italian Community of Zadar

Tea Sindbaek

Chapter 6. Echo of Silence. Memory, Politics and Heritage in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina, a case study: Višegrad

Dragan Nikolic

Chapter 7. Comparative Remarks and Conclusions

Barbara Törnquist-Plewa

Über Autor(innen)

Törnquist-Plewa, Barbara
Barbara Törnquist-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.