Cjenovnik sjećanja: istorijski revizionizam u bivšoj Jugoslaviji
Price List of Memories - Historical Revisionism in Former Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the tensed and sometimes problematic relationship between the collective and individual memory, on the one hand, and the discipline of history that we teach and study at universities, on the other. Adopting and applying theoretical frameworks and methodological tools of history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies as well as the sub-discipline of mnemohistory, the autor is defining the process of constructing and re-constructing collective memory and is elaborating on the categories of presence and absence within an official historical narrative. Furthermore, the concepts of “truth” and “memory” itself are treated as unstable and destabilizing. Since the past is always presented through the narrative, contesting it means struggling over the issue of representation. With this in mind, our understanding of the past has strategic, political, and ethical consequences for our present.

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