Memory Practices and Memory Politics in the Town Fest of Dzhebel
Memory Practices and Memory Politics in the Town Fest of Dzhebel

Summary/Abstract: The text analyses the entanglements between the commemorative and the festive aspects of the events organized as anniversaries of the so-called ‘Revival Process’ (the forced assimilation of Bulgarian Turks in mid- to late 1980s) and the protests against it. Following the example of the Day of Dzhebel, the study tracks the various forms of remembering the past. On the one hand, it is the ‘top-down’ constructed official memory of the traumatic events presented in the well-established discourses and cultural practices of the commemoration, while on the other hand is the recollection of the shared everyday life that transforms the eventinto a fest, reviving the memory of the lost social relations in the community.

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