The collection of well researched chapters assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the emphasis on the recovery of ...memory or revival of national histories that seemed to be the prevelant historiographical approaches of the 1990s, the last decade has seen a particular set of narratives equating Nazism and communism and so providing opportunities to exonerate wartime collaboration, cast the nation as victim even when its government was allied with Germany, and acknowledge the Jewish Holocaust while obfuscating its meaning and significance. In their comparative analysis the authors are also interested in new practices of performing ‘Europeanness’. Therefore their presentations of Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian post-communist memory politics move beyond the common national myths in order to provide a new insight into transnational interactions and exchanges in Europe in general. The juxtaposition of these politics, the processes in other parts of Europe, the modes of remembering shaped by displacement and the transnational memory practices enable a close encounter with the divergences and assess the potential of the formation of common, European memory practices.
To stand up against Nazi ideas of biologized “ethnicity” and antisemitism required a heroic disposition in individuals who did not allow themselves to have their basic humanity destroyed by such ...ideologies, even as the latter were backed by formidable political and religious power and sweepingly popular beliefs. The men and women presented in the first part of the book have already been recognised as Righteous Among Nations for their brave humanitarian acts during WWII, a title bestowed by the Yad Vashem World Center for Holocaust Research, Education, Documentation and Commemoration. Part Two brings the stories about people who were also saving Jews that were not recognised as Righteous yet, but some among them are candidates.
To stand up against Nazi ideas of biologized “ethnicity” and antisemitism required a heroic disposition in individuals who did not allow themselves to have their basic humanity destroyed by such ...ideologies, even as the latter were backed by formidable political and religious power and sweepingly popular beliefs. The men and women presented in the first part of the book have already been recognised as Righteous Among Nations for their brave humanitarian acts during WWII, a title bestowed by the Yad Vashem World Center for Holocaust Research, Education, Documentation and Commemoration. Part Two brings the stories about people who were also saving Jews that were not recognised as Righteous yet, but some among them are candidates.
This paper aims to summarize the transformations in contemporary Slovenia's post-socialist memorial landscape as well as to provide an analysis of the historiographical representation of The Second ...World War in the Slovenian territory. The analysis focuses on the works of both Slovenian professional and amateur historiographical production, that address historic developments which took place during the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath from the perspective of the post-war withdrawal of the members of various military units (and their families) that collaborated with the occupiers during the Second World War.
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This article reports on a metamorphosis. As a participant in a Marie Curie project called ‘Trans-Making’, the author spent three weeks in Istanbul to see which of three abstract ideas he had ...considered in advance might match, challenge or subvert existing depictions of one of the most complex metropolitan cities in the world. In clarifying his project proposal, he not only had to face his own private orientalism, but also found that, to come to a basic understanding of the unique metropolis that is Istanbul, he had to observe the anxious present political and cultural changes in everyday life through the
longue durée
historical lens.
This paper aims to summarize the transformations in contemporary Slovenia’s post-socialist memorial landscape as well as to provide an analysis of the historiographical representation of The Second ...World War in the Slovenian territory. The analysis focuses on the works of both Slovenian professional and amateur historiographical production, that address historic developments which took place during the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath from the perspective of the post-war withdrawal of the members of various military units (and their families) that collaborated with the occupiers during the Second World War.
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
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.
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