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This edited book is the 24th volume in the interdisciplinary series ‘Media and Cultural Memory’. The fourteen contributors with diverse disciplinary backgrounds aim to promote a greater and more critical engagement by Western memory scholars with the complex memory landscapes of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, a region that was at the centre stage of Europe’s violent 20th century. According to the editors it is the ‘double experience’ of Nazi and Soviet rule that distinguishes the region from Western Europe. While it is a shared feature of the past, that double experience has paradoxically caused memoryscapes to be divisive. In the eastern half of Europe the past has been interpreted by the different societies in what have often seemed to be irreconcilable ways.The authors apply innovative approaches to the interconnections among disputed memory, emotions, and politics. They emphasize the role of emotions in shaping and transmitting memory—an aspect that has attracted attention only recently. Moreover, by investigating disputes at different levels of politics from local to national and international, they take the study of memory beyond methodological nationalism. Attention is drawn to space, including digital space, and to location, which shapes the arena of negotiation. A core point in
Comparative Southeast European Studies – de Gruyter
Published: Dec 1, 2017
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