History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity

Sierp, Aline

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“…The debate in European institutions about European memory has been accompanied, and often informed, by related discussions in academia (see, for instance, Bottici and Challand, ; Müller, ; Sznaider, ). Many of these works put the notion of the East‐West memory divide at the centre of their argument (Jarausch, ; Leggewie and Lang, ; Levy et al ., ; Mälksoo, , ; Sierp, ; Stone, ; Troebst, ; Welzer and Lenz, ). My intention in this article is not to engage with this vast literature in its entirety but only to criticize this often‐repeated notion.…”

Section: Theoretical Objections To the Notion Of The ‘East‐west Memormentioning

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Challenging the Notion of the East‐West Memory Divide

Toth

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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Recent scholarly works on memory practices in Europe often appeal to the notion of the East-West memory divide or, more dramatically, to the European memory wars which have been allegedly raging at least since the Eastern enlargement of 2004. These terms are supposed to stand for the heated debate between the East and the West, between the countries on the opposing sides of the former Iron Curtain, about what the appropriate memory for Europe should be. In this article, I challenge this simplistic division and I argue that it completely disregards the role of agency. In contrast, I conduct an agent-centred empirical analysis and show that the social actors involved in the debate are far more diverse, the fault lines are far less clear and the sides of the debate are far more heterogeneous than the carelessly used notion of the East-West memory divide would have us believe.

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Section: Theoretical Objections To the Notion Of The ‘East‐west Memormentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging the Notion of the East‐West Memory Divide

Toth

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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“…On the other side, these centrifugal tendencies were opposed by the attempt to create new comprehensive memories that resulted in significant shifts, with the emergence of new events, new connections among events, and new protagonists that could dilute the dominant (and contested) narrative that connected the Resistance and the Republic. Victims emerged as significant actors portrayed in new memory narratives; European and cosmopolitan memory changed the focus from national history to the transnational dynamics of memorialization (Sierp, 2014); the Republican past, and not only its founding period, was subject to memorialization.…”

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From lines to networks: Calendars, narrative, and temporality

Cossu

2018

Memory Studies

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The focus of the article is the analysis of a particular site of collective memory (one state’s system of national holidays condensed in a calendar) from a perspective that highlights its relational and narrative characteristics. By adopting the idea of “commemorative networks,” the article will regard commemorated events as nodes in a network, connected by ties that highlight the causal relationship between any two events as perceived by the commemorating agencies in the making of narratives of the state. This approach offers a methodologically sound complement to other perspectives that investigate the formal narrative and semiotic features of “collective memory.”

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“…Za nimi postępowało oczekiwanie wyrażane wobec wszystkich państw, a więc zarówno tych członkowskich, jak i kandydujących do UE, które dotyczyło ponownego spojrzenia na czasy Holokaustu i w konsekwencji -być może nawet przede wszystkim -krytycznej oceny ich zachowania podczas II wojny światowej (kwestia neutralności krajów, bierności jednostek wobec masowej eksterminacji Żydów etc.). Chęć dokonania głębokiej redefinicji narodowych interpretacji tego tragicznego momentu w dziejach najnowszych Europy miała diagnozować siłę i stopień, w jakim konkretne kraje podzielały europejskie wartości i skłonne były podążać bardziej europejskim niż narodowym sposobem myślenia o przeszłości, a w konsekwencji -przyszłości, która od tej pory miała być już przecież wspólna 43 .…”

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Europeizacja dziedzictwa. O moralnym zaangażowaniu pewnego pojęcia

2017

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EUROPEANIZATION OF HERITAGE. ABOUT THE MORAL INVOLVEMENT OF A CERTAIN NOTION This article attempts to describe the reciprocal relationship between the stages of European integration, with its acceleration and crises since the 1990's, and the manner of building transnational historical narratives and exploiting the notion of European heritage. The authors show the cultural dimension of Europeanization which, by enriching something that was originally of a purely political and institutional nature, is seen in the subsequent scientific and political paradigms of the construction of a common European past and culture.

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History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity

Cited by 80 publications

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Challenging the Notion of the East‐West Memory Divide

Challenging the Notion of the East‐West Memory Divide

From lines to networks: Calendars, narrative, and temporality

Europeizacja dziedzictwa. O moralnym zaangażowaniu pewnego pojęcia

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