Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Light, Duncan; Creţan, Remus; Dunca, Andreea-Mihaela
• Is Part Of: Journal of southeast European and Black Sea studies. Volume 19:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 565
• Page End: 584
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: transitional justice -- education -- memorial museum -- youth -- Romania; Balkan Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Balkan Peninsula -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Periodicals; Geopolitics -- Balkan Peninsula -- Periodicals; Black Sea Region -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Black Sea Region -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Geopolitics -- Black Sea Region -- Periodicals; 330.9496
• DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2019.1702619
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-3857

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role of education within post-communist transitional justice. It focuses on the ways in which young Romanians negotiate the communist past during an educational visit to a memorial museum. The museum enabled these visitors to better understand the repression of the communist era and had limited impact in changing their attitudes towards communism, but it did provoke reflection upon and comparison between the present and the communist past. Visitors recognized the role of the museum as a site of memory within post-communist transitional justice, but were also critically aware of the limitations to what the museum could achieve. The implications of these findings for post-communist transitional justice are examined.