Traitors Collaborators And Deserters In Contemporary European Politics Of Memory

Author : Gelinada Grinchenko,Eleonora Narvselius
Publisher : Springer
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319664965

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Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory by Gelinada Grinchenko,Eleonora Narvselius Pdf

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of “formulas for betrayal” as a result of changing memory politics in post-war Europe. The contributors, who specialize in history, sociology, anthropology, memory studies, media studies and cultural studies, discuss the exertion of political control over memory (including the selection, imposition, silencing or ideological “twisting” of facts), the usage of “formulas for betrayal” in various cultural-political contexts, and the discursive framing of the betraying subject for the purpose of legitimizing various memory regimes and ideologies.

Author : Christian Karner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351296540

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The Use and Abuse of Memory by Christian Karner Pdf

Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their memories remain part of our lives. In academic and human terms, preserving awareness of this past is an ethical imperative. This volume concerns narratives about—and allusions to—World War II across contemporary Europe, and explains why contemporary Europeans continue to be drawn to it as a template of comparison, interpretation, even prediction. This volume adds a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to the trajectories of recent academic inquiries. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, political scientists, and area study specialists contribute wide-ranging theoretical paradigms, disciplinary frameworks, and methodological approaches. The volume focuses on how, where, and to what effect World War II has been remembered. The editors discuss how World War II in particular continues to be a point of reference across the political spectrum and not only in Europe. It will be of interest for those interested in popular culture, World War II history, and national identity studies.

Author : Olena Stiazhkina
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783838215501

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Zero Point Ukraine by Olena Stiazhkina Pdf

In her Four Essays on World War II, Olena Stiazhkina inscribes the Ukrainian history of World War II into a wider European and world context. Among other aspects, she analyzes the mobilization measures on the eve of the war, and reconsiders Soviet narratives on them. Scrutinizing social and political processes initiated by the Bolshevik leadership in the 1920s and 1930s, she outlines how mobilization and militarization became integral parts of Soviet politics. Today, the Kremlin uses Soviet and post-Soviet Russian narratives of World War II to justify its aggressive policies towards a number of democratic countries. Russia is engaged in falsification of the past to underpin claims of a so-called “Russian World” and its ongoing war against Ukraine. Against this background, Stiazhkina offers a new understanding of what happened in Ukraine before, during, and after World War II.

Author : Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas,Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus,Nina Sääskilahti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000486513

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Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context by Viktorija L.A. Čeginskas,Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus,Nina Sääskilahti Pdf

This book provides novel and critical insights into the complex relationship between politics of memory and oblivion in European countries in the 20th and early 21st centuries as well as the cultural, political and institutional backgrounds against which they function. It explores the uses of the past in terms of a conscious choice to either reactivate or overlook memories as selective reference points for the promotion and legitimation of contemporary political goals. The chapters of this volume bring together theoretical discussions on the interrelationship between remembrance and purposeful oblivion as active processes that serve particular interests and ideologies in the present. By addressing the diverse meanings given to practices of memory, the contributions offer new perspectives on how institutions shape cultural memory, power relations and identity projects. Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context: Critical Perspectives will be of interest to scholars and graduate students from the fields of memory studies, heritage studies, cultural studies, history, and political science who engage with the legacies of violent and traumatic pasts, post-colonial contexts, societal transition and reconciliation. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, European Politics and Society.

Author : Grzegorz Nycz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110752014

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Memory Politics in the Shadow of the New Cold War by Grzegorz Nycz Pdf

This book addresses memory politics and their evolution as an academic discipline, including memory studies. It explores national and international debates about conflicting interpretations of the recent past, including WWII remembering, the annexation of Ukraine, the reformed history teaching in Putin’s Russia, Historikerstreit and the holocaust in Germany, and the legacy and role of nuclear weapons in international relations in the USA in the context of the so called New Cold War.

Author : Marlene Laruelle,Margarita Karnysheva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350149984

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Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War by Marlene Laruelle,Margarita Karnysheva Pdf

In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favours the opposite camp, namely the White movement and the pro-tsarist groups defeated in the early 1920s. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this 'White Revenge', looking at the different actors who promote a White and pro-Romanov rehabilitation agenda in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.

Author : Andrzej Marcin Suszycki
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643911025

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Nationalism in Contemporary Europe by Andrzej Marcin Suszycki Pdf

This book proposes a conceptualisation of nationalism with a multilevel operational character. It offers three different perspectives on nationalism that consider both the discursive structure and the discursive agency of nationalism. It also demonstrates a number of intra-phenomenal and extra-phenomenal constraints on nationalism. This book underlines that nationalism in contemporary Europe should not be regarded in terms of methodological homogeneity and conceptual uniformity, ideological rigidity or strategic consistency but rather as a contested, segmented, bounded and contextual phenomenon.

Author : Georgiy Kasianov
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633866856

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Memory Crash by Georgiy Kasianov Pdf

This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians, and local governments. He identifies the main political purposes of these practices in the construction of nation and identity, struggles for power, warfare, and international relations. Kasianov considers the Ukrainian case in the context of a global increase in the politics of history and memory, with particular emphasis on a distinctive East-European variety. He pays special attention to the use and abuse of history in relations between Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.

Author : Anna Wylegała,Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253046734

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The Burden of the Past by Anna Wylegała,Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper Pdf

In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress and control the past in order to form new national identities supportive of their own agendas. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, memory in Ukraine was released, creating alternate visions of the past, new national heroes, and new victims. This release of memories led to new conflicts and "memory wars." How does the past exist in contemporary Ukraine? The works collected in The Burden of the Past focus on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture. The works explore contemporary memory culture in Ukraine and the ways in which it is being researched and understood. Drawing on work from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and political scientists, the collection represents a truly interdisciplinary approach. Taken together, the groundbreaking scholarship collected in The Burden of the Past provides insight into how memories can be warped and abused, and how this abuse can have lasting effects on a country seeking to create a hopeful future.

Author : Jörg Echternkamp,Stephan Jaeger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789201277

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Views of Violence by Jörg Echternkamp,Stephan Jaeger Pdf

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

Author : Eleonora Fedor, Julie Narvselius
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838215235

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Diversity in the East-Central European Borderlands by Eleonora Fedor, Julie Narvselius Pdf

Built on up-to-date field material, this edited volume suggests an anthropological approach to the palimpsest-like milieus of Wrocław, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău. In these East-Central European borderline cities, the legacies of Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, and violent ethno-nationalism have been revisited in recent decades in search of profound moral reckoning and in response to the challenges posed by the (post-)transitional period. Present shapes and contents of these urban settings derive from combinations of fragmented material environments, cultural continuities and political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective memories about the contentious past, expressive architectural forms and less conspicuous meaning-making activities of human actors. In other words, they evolve from perpetual tensions between choices of the past and the burden of the past. A novel feature of this book is its multi-level approach to the analysis of engagements with the lost diversity in historical urban milieus full of post-war voids and ruptures. In particular, the collected studies test the possibility of combining the theoretical propositions of Memory Studies with broader conceptualizations of borderlands, cosmopolitan sociality, urban mythologies, and hybridity. The volume’s contributors are Eleonora Narvselius, Bo Larsson, Natalia Otrishchenko, Anastasia Felcher, Juliet D. Golden, Hana Cervinkova, Paweł Czajkowski, Alexandr Voronovici, Barbara Pabjan, Nadiia Bureiko, Teodor Lucian Moga, and Gaelle Fisher.

Author : Aleksandra Konarzewska,Anna Nakai
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648897405

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Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe by Aleksandra Konarzewska,Anna Nakai Pdf

In the region known as Eastern and East-Central Europe, the framework provided by memory studies became highly valuable for understanding the overload of interpretations and conflicting perspectives on events during the twentieth century. The trauma of two world wars, the development of collective consciousness according to national and ethnic categories, stories of the trampled lands and lives of people, and resistance to the rule of authoritarian and totalitarian terrors—these trajectories left complex layers of identities to unfold. The following volume addresses the issue of identity as a pivot in studies of memory and literature. In this context, it addresses the question of cultural negotiation as it took shape between memory and literature, history and literature, and memory and history, with the help of contemporary authors and their works. The authors take the literature of countries such as Estonia, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, and Russia as the point of departure, and explain its significance in terms of geographical, theoretical, and thematic perspectives.

Author : Christian Karner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:869853365

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The Use and Abuse of Memory by Christian Karner Pdf

Author : Paul Benedikt Glatz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793616715

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Vietnam's Prodigal Heroes by Paul Benedikt Glatz Pdf

Vietnam’s Prodigal Heroes examines the critical role of desertion in the international Vietnam War debate. Paul Benedikt Glatz traces American deserters’ odyssey of exile and activism in Europe, Japan, and North America to demonstrate how their speaking out and unprecedented levels of desertion in the US military changed the traditional image of the deserter.

Author : Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000397024

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Sites of the Dictators by Xosé M. Núñez Seixas Pdf

This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational and comparative way. During the second decade of the twenty-first century, a number of parallel debates arose in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Albania, Austria and other European countries regarding the public management by democratic regimes of those sites of memory that were directly linked to the personal biographies of their former dictators. The ways in which each democracy deals with the dead bodies, mausoleums and birthplaces of the dictators vary considerably, although common questions occur, such as whether oblivion or re-signification is better, the risk of a posthumous cult of personality being established and the extent to which the shadow of the authoritarian past endures in these sites of memory. Using the concept of "sites of the dictators", the author explains why it is so difficult to deal with some sites of memory linked to dead autocrats, as those places contribute directly or indirectly to humanizing them, making their remembrance more acceptable for the present and future generations, and discusses the potential of the "Europeanization" of these "dark" memories of the past. Exploring the imperatives of memory politics and how these are reconciled with local actors interested in exploiting the dictator’s remembrance, this book will be useful reading for students and scholars of history, politics and memory studies.