Beyond post-socialist memory : politics of the past in Slovenia from the Cold War to the present

KLABJAN, Borut

Beyond post-socialist memory : politics of the past in Slovenia from the Cold War to the present

dc.contributor.author	KLABJAN, Borut
dc.date.accessioned	2020-03-31T15:20:59Z
dc.date.available	2020-03-31T15:20:59Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	This essay focuses on the memorial landscape and on the on-going reinterpretations of the traumatic events of World War II in Slovenia and in its western borderland. The area is part of the European Union and nowadays shared by Slovenia, Croatia and Italy. In the 20th Century it often functioned as a powerful symbolic boundary, one in which several key axes of European and global symbolic geography intersect: the West and the East, German, Latin and Slav Worlds, Europe and the Balkans, fascism and anti-fascism, liberal democracy, capitalism and communism. With the aim to overcome dichotomic ideological and ethnic/national explanations, grassroots memory cultures are analyzed. This shows us first, that politics of memory are not a merely imposition of the state in a unilateral top-down direction, and secondly, how state-sponsored initiatives have to negotiate in a border context. Here, Slovenia and the nowadays Italo-Slovene borderland is thus used as a tool to investigate global processes of remembering.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work was supported by the Research Executive Agency [655609]
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dc.identifier.citation	Nikolai VUKOV and Svetlana KAZALARSKA (eds), Heroic art and socialist realism : monument, memory and representations of the socialist past after 1989, Sofia : Cultural Arc Foundation, 2018, pp. 157-182	en
dc.identifier.isbn	9786197420036
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66741
dc.language.iso	en	en
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dc.publisher	Cultural Arc Foundation	en
dc.relation	Adriatic Perspectives: Memory and Identity on a Transnational European Periphery
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en
dc.title	Beyond post-socialist memory : politics of the past in Slovenia from the Cold War to the present	en
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