After the fall of socialism, besides the attempts to reach national reconciliation, radical reconfigurations and reinterpretations of the past were used to negotiate local, national and transnational ...identities and strengthen national agendas. In most of the formerly socialist countries, the historical interpretation significantly resembles the struggle over the legitimacy and authenticity of this representation. The author argues that in post-socialist Slovenia instead of the anticipated democratization and break with ideologically predestined historical work after 1989, at least three competing politically contaminated ways of interpreting the past gained momentum: the so-called liberal-conformist position, which insists that we have to look at the future and forget the traumas of the past; the revisionist standpoint which, at least in Slovenia, is the most aggressive one; and the objectivistic approach practiced by most Slovenian historians after 1991. To do that the author investigates how collective memories are mobilized in general, formal and in particular more personalized and/or emotional narratives and traces the changes in Slovenian memorial landscape divided into categories: the authoritarian type, defined by a desire for direct colonization of the interpretation of the past related to the Second World War; the conciliatory type that tries to achieve “reconciliation”; the conflicting type that clashes with the iconography of an existing partisan monument as an alternative interpretation.
Podobno kot vsi drugi pojavi in prakse je tudi pojav javnega intelektualca treba obravnavati znotraj običajnega koordinatnega sistema časa in prostora. Na ta način namreč še najhitreje spoznamo, da ...gre za relativno mlad, prostorsko omejen in precej nekonsistenten pojav. S precejšnjo gotovostjo je namreč mogoče trditi, da tako imenovani javni intelektualci najkasneje sredi prejšnjega stoletja prenehajo biti enciklopedisti. Je torej pojav, ki se je rodil v zadnjih desetletjih osemnajstega stoletja, po slabih dveh stoletjih v svoji izvorni pojavnosti skoraj popolnoma zamrl? Ali pa se je spremenil samo način uprizarjanje vloge javnega intelektualca - spremenil do te mere, da je vsak poskus celovite razlage sveta v nekem trenutku postal nekoliko arhaičen ... ali celo sumljiv? Je za to kriv tehnološki razvoj ali atomizacija znanja ... ali celo dehirearhizacija javnega diskurza? Na podlagi odgovorov na ta in z njimi povezana vprašanja poskuša avtor predstaviti status »javnega intelektualca« znotraj zgodovinopisja. Na podlagi korenitih sprememb, ki jih je v profesionalno interpretacijo preteklega dogajanja vnesla deobjektivizacija h istorične interpretacije poskuša ugotoviti, kdaj in zakaj zgodovinarke in zgodovinarji hočeš nočeš nastopajo v vlogi javnega intelektualca, pri tem zapustijo polje zgodovinopisja in se znajdejo na področju politike zgodovine oz. politike preteklosti.
ABSTRACT IN SLOVENE: Podobno kot vsi drugi pojavi in prakse je tudi pojav javnega intelektualca treba obravnavati znotraj obicajnega koordinatnega sistema casa in prostora. Na ta nacin nam rec se ...najhitreje spoznamo, da gre za relativno mlad, prostorsko omejen in precej nekonsistenten pojav. S precejsnjo gotovostjo je namrec mogoce trditi, da tako imenovani javni intelektualci najkasneje sredi prejsnjega stoletja prenehajo bili enciklopedisti. Je torej pojav, ki se je rodil v zadnjih desetletjih osemnajstega stoletja, po slabih dveh stoletjih v svoji izvorni pojavnosti skoraj popolnoma zamrl? Ali pa se je spremenil samo nacin uprizarjanje vloge javnega intelektualca - spremenil do te mere, da je vsak poskus celovite razlage sveta v nekem trenutku postal nekoliko arhaicen ... ali celo sumljiv? Je za to kriv tehnoloski razvoj ali atomizacija znanja ... ali celo dehirearhizacija javnega diskurza? Na podlagi odgovorov na ta in z njimi povezana vprasanja poskusa avtor predstaviti status »javnega intelektualca« znotraj zgodovinopisja. Na podlagi korenitih sprememb, ki jih je v profesionalno interpretacijo preteklega dogajanja vnesla deobjektivizacija historicne interpretacije poskusa ugotoviti, kdaj in zakaj zgodovinarke in zgodovinarji hoces noces nastopajo v vlogi javnega intelektualca, pri tem zapustijo polje zgodovinopisja in se znajdejo na podrocju politike zgodovine oz. politike preteklosti. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: The author attempts to present the status of a `public intellectual' within the bounds of post-1991 historiography. He claims that the phenomenon of `public intellectual' which emerged in the last decades of the 18th century almost completely ceased to exist in its original form today. On the basis of drastic changes in historical interpretation of past events, including the revision of the WWII and post-war history, the author further aims to determine, when and where during this process the post-socialist `public intellectuals' left the field of historiography and entered the domain of the politics of history. In other words, he interrogates how the changes in the politics of the past facilitate the transformation of public intellectuals into political commentators. Reprinted by permission of European Institute for Communication and Culture
In the following chapter, the author wants to show that the fear Andrić talked about can from time to time lull us into blindly believing those stories that know nothing about “perhaps” or ...“anticipation.” Or to put it more precisely, in discussing the straightforwardness of post-socialist revisionist historiography, he shows how hope in the uncensored interpretation of the past that accompanied the “end of communism” gave way to the fear of yet another strand of one-sided politics of history
Državljanski dnevnik ('Citizen’s Diary') is a unique publication bringing thematisations of past and present issues of active citizenship. The authors, four Slovenians and an American, seek to answer ...the question to what extent are we, as citizens, responsible for the state of public affairs in democratic societies. To do this they reflect on various cases form the period between the Second World War and the end of 20th century.
Dežela senc Luthar, Oto; Pogačar, Martin
2015
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The Land of Shadows was first conceived as a complementary resource for History classes in Slovenian high schools. It served to complement to the patchy Holocaust teaching resources. It consists of ...two parts: the first part features a historical overview of anti-Semitism and eventually the Holocaust in Europe, which is followed by an account of the situation in Slovenia. The authors relied on the life-story of Mrs Erika Fürst, one of the Holocaust survivors from Prekmurje, Slovenia. In creating a compelling and touching narrative, the authors used visual material from the archives and from various publications depicting the period and the problematic, notably excerpts from two graphic novels: Art Speigelman’s Maus, Jason Lutes’ Berlin.
INTRODUCTION Oto Luthar
Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits,
07/2017
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On September 12, 2015, a little over seventy years after the end of World War II and seventy-fours years after two death camps were opened on the island of Pag, Croatia, an Israeli film crew visited ...the village of Metajna. They wanted to film the site of the camp system located there and in some other locations (e.g., Slana Bay) in the northern part of the island.¹ When the van with the four-member crew parked in the village center and the cameraman and the soundmen started to take out of their equipment, one of the villagers who gathered close by
Important anniversaries of prominent historians have become traditional opportunities for the gift to the celebrator in the form of scientific contributions from his colleagues and the colleagues who ...have worked with him fruitfully or are still doing so. Marušičev zbornik is a tribute to one of the leading historians of the Slovene region in contact with its western neighbors, historian prof. Branko Marušič at the age of 80. He has created a very important oeuvre, while outlining basic research directions, which some have continued to gain. One of the prominent results of this “scientific transfer” is the present scientific monograph, with the highly significant subtitle, Zgodovinopisec zahodnega roba (The Historian of West Edge). In a single volume, it represents the contribution of different generations of historians to new insights into the history of coastal space, especially that of the borderland, which throughout history has encountered coexistence with “the other.” Different historical sources and their careful analyzes and interpretations, which the authors place in different time contexts, contribute to new or original scientific knowledge. The monograph is actual and important for the development of historiography, also because of the development of Slovenian scientific terminology.
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