A European memory? : contested histories and politics of remembrance /: contested histories and politics of remembrance. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth.
• Other Names: Pakier, Małgorzata, 1979-; Stråth, Bo, 1943-
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors Introduction: A European Memory?; Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth Part I. Europe, Memory, Politics, and History. Uneasy Relationships Chapter 1. On 'European Memory': Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks; Jan –Werner Müller Chapter 2. The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanization; Klas-Göran Karlsson Chapter 3. Halecki Revisited: Europe's Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance; Stefan Troebst Chapter 4. Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics?; Wolfgang Kaschuba Chapter 5. Culture, Politics, Palimpsest. Theses on Memory and Society; Heidemarie Uhl Chapter 6. Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance. Reflections on Memory and History; Frederick Whitling Chapter 7. Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories; James Kaye Part II. Remembering Europe's Dark Pasts Section 1. Remembering the Second World War; Chapter 8 . Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe 1945 – 2005; Stefan Berger Chapter 9. Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance. (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-eastern Europe; Heike Karge Chapter 10. A Victory Celebrated. Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation; Clemens Maier Section 2. Towards a Europeanization of the Commemoration of the Holocaust; Chapter 11. Remembering Europe's Heart of Darkness - Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies; Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke Chapter 12. Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989; Stanisław Tyszka Chapter 13. A Europeanization of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of Europa, Europa (1990) by Agnieszka Holland; Małgorzata Pakier Chapter 14. Italian Commemoration of the Shoah. The Construction of a Survivor-oriented Narrative and its Impact on Italian Politics and Practices of Remembrance; Ruth Nattermann Section 3. Coming to Terms with Europe's Communist Past: ; Chapter 15. Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States; Arfon Rees Chapter 16. Eurocommunism. Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe; Péter Apor Chapter 17. The Memory of the Dead Body; Senadin Musabegović Chapter 18. Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe; Kevin Morgan Section 4. Coming to Terms with Europe's Colonial Past: ; Chapter 19. Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism, and the Algerian War in France; Jan Jansen Chapter 20. Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-speaking Minorities at the North Calotte; Lars Elenius Conclusion: Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanization of Memories; Konrad H. Jarausch Bibliography
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (372 pages)
• Subjects: 940.01; Collective memory -- Europe; Europe -- History -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845458133; 1845458133
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