Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context
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.
Viktorija L. A. eginskas is Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Jyvskyl, with an interest in cultural studies, belonging and Europe. She is currently working on the research projects EU Heritage Diplomacy and the Dynamics of Inter-Heritage Dialogue (HERIDI) and Sensory and Material Memories: Exploring Autobiographical Materiality (SENSOMEMO).
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus is Lecturer at the University of Helsinki. Previously she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Jyvskyl, on the research project Legitimation of European Cultural Heritage and the Dynamics of Identity Politics in the EU (EUROHERIT), funded by the European Research Council.
Nina Sskilahti is Senior Researcher at the University of Jyvskyl specialized in interdisciplinary cultural studies and memory studies. Previously she worked as researcher on the project Crossing Borders: Artistic Practices in Performing and Narrating Belonging.
Politics of Memory and Oblivion in the European Context
Critical Perspectives
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Contents
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, Viktorija L. A. eginskas and Nina Sskilahti
Georgi Verbeeck
Kuisma Korhonen
Andrei Linchenko and Daniil Anikin
Heino Nyyssnen and Jussi Metsl
Sokol Lleshi
Sirkka Ahonen
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal European Politics and Society, volume 21, issue 3 (2020). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Politics of memory and oblivion.
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, Viktorija L. A. eginskas and Nina Sskilahti
European Politics and Society, volume 21, issue 3 (2020), pp. 271276
Legacies of an imperial past in a small nation: patterns of postcolonialism in Belgium
Georgi Verbeeck
European Politics and Society, volume 21, issue 3 (2020), pp. 292306
Politics of fire: the commemorative torch rally 612 of the Finnish radical right
Kuisma Korhonen
European Politics and Society, volume 21, issue 3 (2020), pp. 307322
The political uses of the past in modern Russia: the images of the October revolution 1917 in the politics of memory of Russian parties
Andrei Linchenko and Daniil Anikin
European Politics and Society, volume 21, issue 3 (2020), pp. 356370
Highlights of national history? Constitutional memory and the preambles of post- communist constitutions
Heino Nyyssnen and Jussi Metsl
European Politics and Society, volume 21, issue 3 (2020), pp. 323340
Reconstructing the past in a state-mandated historical memory institute: the case of Albania
Sokol Lleshi
European Politics and Society, volume 21, issue 3 (2020), pp. 277291
The construction and deconstruction of national myths: a study of the transformation of Finnish history textbook narratives after World War II
Sirkka Ahonen
European Politics and Society, volume 21, issue 3 (2020), pp. 341355
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Sirkka Ahonen, PhD, Prof. emerita, Department of Teacher Education, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Daniil Anikin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Politology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
Viktorija L. A. eginskas, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyvskyl, Jyvskyl, Finland.
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus, DSocSc, University Lecturer, Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
