The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia

Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-23973-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Reihe: Southeast European Studies

Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, this book analyses the politics of memory.

Since the overthrow of Slobodan Miloševic in 2000, memory politics in Serbia has undergone drastic changes in the way in which the Second World War and its aftermath is understood and interpreted. The glorification and romanticisation of the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland, more commonly referred to as the Chetnik movement, has become the central theme of Serbia’s memory politics during this period. The book traces their construction as a national antifascist movement equal to the communist-led Partisans and as victims of communism, showing the parallel justification and denial of their wartime activities of collaboration and mass atrocities. The multifaceted approach of this book combines a diachronic perspective that illuminates the continuities and ruptures of narratives, actors and practices, with in-depth analysis of contemporary Serbia, rooted in ethnographic fieldwork and exploring multiple levels of memory work and their interactions.

It will appeal to students and academics working on contemporary history of the region, memory studies, sociology, public history, transitional justice, human rights and Southeast and East European Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

¿Ureinovi¿, Jelena

Ðureinovic, Jelena

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Exploring politics of memory 3. Yugoslav memory culture and its downfall 4. The Miloševic era 5. Memory politics in post-Miloševic Serbia 6. Unearthing the past 7. Anti-communist memory politics from below 8. History, memory and law 9. Rehabilitation of Dragoljub Mihailovic 10. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jelena Ðureinovic holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, where she teaches in the Department of History. Her research deals with the history and politics of memory of the Second World War in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav space with the focus on the process of reinterpretation of the Chetnik movement in Serbia. She was a visiting research fellow at the Moore Institute in Galway, the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz and the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies in the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She has published on Europeanisation and memory politics, memory laws, discourses of victimhood under communism and relations between memory cultures in Croatia and Serbia.