Europäische Erinnerung als verflochtene Erinnerung

Vielstimmige und vielschichtige Vergangenheitsdeutungen jenseits der Nation

274 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Starting point for this publication is a critique of the unreflected instrumentalisation of ›European Memory‹ as exposed in current public and academic discourse. In order to respond to this pernicious tendency, the contributions to this volume develop an approach that accentuates the polyphony and multiple layers of memory.Rather than understanding ›European Memory‹ as a normative ideal or an empirical concept for days of remembrance, museums, or schoolbooks, this approach perceives ›European Memory‹ as a discursive reality of which academia is an integral part. It manifests itself whenever actors pick up ‘Europe’ in their interpretations of the past. Covering a broad spectrum of European memory ranging from the Vikings to the Srebrenica massacre, the volume includes very different attributes of European self-descriptions and enquires into the entanglements of memory in present and past that are linked with these interpretations.

• Reihe: Formen der Erinnerung
• ISBN: 9783847100522
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2014
• Genre: Politikwissenschaft
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Jürgen Reulecke
• Herausgegeben von: Gregor Feindt
• Reihe herausgegeben von: Gregor Feindt, Daniela Mehler, Oliver Dimbath, Simon Hadler, Marcin Napiorkowski, Klaus Oschema, Roland Scheel, Friedemann Pestel, Félix Krawatzek, Félix Krawatzek, Daniela Mehler, Friedemann Pestel, Rieke Trimçev, Birgit Neumann