Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans 2020
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54700-4_7
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“Skopje 2014” Reappraised: Debating a Memory Project in North Macedonia

Abstract: The "Skopje 2014 project", an umbrella term covering the 137 memorial objects erected in North Macedonia's capital city of Skopje in the course of the last decade, has provoked a massive debate within the domestic public. While envisioned to mirror the country's Euro-Atlantic integrational agenda, the "project" was predominantly recognised as a fragmentation manifesto in inter-and intra-ethnic terms. This chapter examines the Macedonian public debate over the "project", mapping three particular phases of the d… Show more

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“…This traumatic event left open space for an even more radical rebuke of the post-earthquake migration and demographic politics, which eventually led to an ethnonationalist reimagination of Skopje, its central area and symbolic spaces. In brief, following the Greek veto of the Republic of Macedonia's accession to NATO in 2006, the right-wing government launched a project -called "Skopje 2014" -of erecting more than 130 monuments and memorial objects in the city in the late 2000s (for an overview, see Trajanovski, 2021a). The project, even though targeting a wide range of historical figures, events and periods, was especially brutal towards the socialist architectural and urban planning legacies in the city.…”
Section: Naum Trajanovskimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This traumatic event left open space for an even more radical rebuke of the post-earthquake migration and demographic politics, which eventually led to an ethnonationalist reimagination of Skopje, its central area and symbolic spaces. In brief, following the Greek veto of the Republic of Macedonia's accession to NATO in 2006, the right-wing government launched a project -called "Skopje 2014" -of erecting more than 130 monuments and memorial objects in the city in the late 2000s (for an overview, see Trajanovski, 2021a). The project, even though targeting a wide range of historical figures, events and periods, was especially brutal towards the socialist architectural and urban planning legacies in the city.…”
Section: Naum Trajanovskimentioning
confidence: 99%