A European Memory? : : Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance / / ed. by Bo Stråth, Małgorzata Pakier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Apor, Péter,; Berger, Stefan,; Elenius, Lars,; Jansen, Jan,; Jarausch, Konrad H.,; Karge, Heike,; Karlsson, Klas-Göran,; Kaschuba, Wolfgang,; Kaye, James,; Maier, Clemens,; Morgan, Kevin,; Musabegovic, Senadin,; Müller, Jan-Werner,; Nattermann, Ruth,; Pakier, Małgorzata,; Rees, Arfon,; Stokholm Banke, Cecilie Felicia,; Stråth, Bo,; Troebst, Stefan,; Tyszka, Stanisław,; Uhl, Heidemarie,; Whitling, Frederick,
• HerausgeberIn: Pakier, Małgorzata,; Stråth, Bo,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary European History ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)

An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe’s past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe’s past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. A European Memory? -- Part I Europe, Memory, Politics and History: A Normative and Theoretical Framing -- Section 1 Normative Perspectives and Lines of Division of European Memory Constructions -- Chapter 1 On ‘European Memory’: Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks -- Chapter 2 The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanisation -- Chapter 3 Halecki Revisited: Europe’s Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance -- Chapter 4 Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics? -- Section 2 Towards a Fluid Conceptualisation of Memory Constructs -- Chapter 5 Culture, Politics, Palimpsest: Theses on Memory and Society -- Chapter 6 Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance: Reflections on Memory and History -- Chapter 7 Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories -- Part II Remembering Europe’s Dark Pasts: Four Fields of Commemoration -- Section 3 Remembering the Second World War -- Chapter 8 Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe, 1945–2005 -- Chapter 9 Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance: (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe -- Chapter 10 A Victory Celebrated: Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation -- Section 4 Towards a Europeanisation of the Commemoration of the Holocaust -- Chapter 11 Remembering Europe’s Heart of Darkness: Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies -- Chapter 12 Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 -- Chapter 13 A Europeanisation of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of the Film Europa, Europa -- Chapter 14 Italian Commemoration of the Shoah: A Survivor-Oriented Narrative and Its Impact on Politics and Practices of Remembrance -- Section 5 Coming to Terms with Europe’s Communist Past -- Chapter 15 Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States -- Chapter 16 Eurocommunism: Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe -- Chapter 17 The Memory of the Dead Body -- Chapter 18 Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe -- Section 6 Coming to Terms with Europe’s Colonial Past -- Chapter 19 Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism and the Algerian War of Independence in France -- Chapter 20 Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-Speaking Minorities at the North Calotte -- Conclusion. Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanisation of Memories -- References -- Index