Pentru o epistemologie a memoriei: conceptualizarea discursului memoriei colective în postcomunism
For an Epistemology of Memory: the Conceptualization of Collective Memory’s Speech in Post-Communism

Summary/Abstract: Memory is a construction and a reconstruction, and it is in this process of reconstruction that we always find the bricks of affective positioning and those schemata. These bricks represent a guarantee that any discourse on memory is an irrational, the cause of to a conflict whenever two opposing memories meet. Moreover, memory is an exploitable emotional resource of which power takes advantage. Therefore, besides all the poetry and the drama in memory studies, a more prosaic approach is needed. In this article I deal with memory as narration and I try to capture its meanings, using Enesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory as a framework. The case study is focused on two political intervention Romanian and Hungarian leaders, that are mnemonically driven and have an obvious manipulative purpose. The aim is to show how the use of memory can vary from transitional justice to political games of power, and to point that collective memory is a factor that should be a lot more taken into consideration in Political Science and International Relations.

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