Eternal Past - Collective Memory of the Cyprus Conflict
Eternal Past: Collective Memory of the Cyprus Conflict

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the complex web and role of memory in the context of Cyprus. It focuses on the mutually exclusive narratives and memory politics of the two communities in the public sphere and education and thus shows how generations of Cypriots are being socialised into different grand stories of the past. More specifically, it delves into the discursive practices of both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and reveals how these practices, into which entire generations are being socialised, contribute to the perpetuation of ethnic division, while producing and reproducing entrenched ingroup narratives of victimhood and heroism that hinder prospects for rapprochement and reconciliation.

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