Disputed memory : : emotions and memory politics in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe / / edited by Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched
• TeilnehmendeR: Sindbæk Andersen, Tea,; Törnquist Plewa, Barbara,
• Author: Knowledge Unlatched
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2016]
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 383 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Disputed memories in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe / Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa -- Part 1. Transnational memory politics -- Global memory and dialogic forgetting : the Armenian case / Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke -- Overcoming memory conflicts : Russia, Finland and the Second World War / Tuomas Forsberg -- Sorry for Srebrenica? : public apologies and genocide in the western Balkans / Davide Denti -- 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 -- The universal victim : representing Jews and Roma in a European Holocaust museum / Birga U. Meyer -- The memory of the Roma Holocaust in Ukraine : mass graves, memory work and the politics of commemoration / Andrej Kotljarchuk -- Part 3. Local and marginal memory -- Forced migration and identity in the memories of post-war expellees from Poland and Ukraine / Anna Wylegala -- 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 -- Red carnations on Victory Day and military marches on UPA Day? : remembered history of WWII in Ukraine / Yuliya Yurchuk -- Part 4. Memorial media spaces -- Framing the Ukrainian insurgent army and the Latvian Legion : transnational history-writing on Wikipedia / Martins Kaprans -- Negotiating memory in online social networks : Ukrainian and Ukrainian-Russian discussions of Soviet rule and anti-Soviet resistance / Volodymyr Kulyk -- Football and memories of Croatian fascism on Facebook / Tea Sindbæk Andersen -- Collective memory and institutional reform in Albania / Elvin Gjevori -- Clashes between national and post-national European views on commemorating the past : the case of the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw / Igor Pietraszewski and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.