Odsustva: o osporavanju prošlosti i konstrukciji društvenog zaborava
Absences: Denying The Past And Constuction Of Social Forgetness

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the troubled 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 the sub-discipline of mnemohistory, the autor is defining the process of 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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