To browse Academia. The authors outline contradictions that constitute this discourse by pointing to its inherently conflictive potential and carve out the implicit and explicit normative assumptions of European Memory.
Albeit acknowledging differences in memories of twentieth-century mass violence, references to European Memory promise to overcome the conflicts inherent in the historical experiences of such violence. Confronting this bias, this special issue postulates an understanding of European Memory as a discursive reality rather than a normative ideal.
They demonstrate how mnemonic practices may lose contextual references and link or even transfer to other memories in order to articulate claims of relevance on a European level. Handbook on the Politics of Memory. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Aquatic Conservation-marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google.
Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. European Memory: Universalising the Past? With the end of the Cold War, European integration had seemingly achieved a hitherto unknown level of normative and political rapprochement. With the post dynamics of European integration, the paradigm of impartial remembering stretched beyond its original points of reference: France and Western Germany.
These norms have since also guided memory practices in post-socialist societies, transnational Human Rights organizations or memory scholarship. However, neither this academic narrative nor the enthusiastic reception of the Nobel Peace Prize in the European public sphere and among European politicians could disguise the potential conflicts within this European Memory Regime. Obviously, impartial commemoration of mass violence struggled to translate into other mnemonic discourse.
