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ID160616
Title ProperPolitical memory, ontological security, and holocaust remembrance in post-communist Europe
LanguageENG
AuthorSubotic, Jelena
Summary / Abstract (Note)Post-communist states today are dealing with conflicting sources of ontological insecurity. They are anxious to be perceived as fully European by “core” European states, a status that remains fleeting. Being fully European, however, means sharing in the cosmopolitan European narratives of the twentieth century, perhaps the strongest being the narrative of the Holocaust. Influencing the European Union’s own memory politics and legislation in the process, post-communist states have attempted to resolve these insecurities by undergoing a radical revision of their respective Holocaust remembrance where the memory, symbols, and imagery of the Holocaust become appropriated to represent crimes of communism. By rejecting the cosmopolitan European narrative of the Holocaust, post-communist states have also removed anti-fascist resistance from the core memory of the Holocaust, allowing for a revival and ideological normalisation of contemporary fascist ideological movements. I illustrate the argument with an overview of contemporary Holocaust remembrance practices in the EU’s youngest member, Croatia.
`In' analytical NoteEuropean Security Vol. 27, No.3; Sep 2018: p.296-313
Journal SourceEuropean Security Vol: 27 No 3
Key WordsEU ;  Post-Communism ;  Croatia ;  Memory ;  Holocaust ;  Ontological (in)Security


 
 
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