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Dealing with Dark Pasts

A European History of Auto-Critical Memory in Global Perspective

Expected online publication date:  13 December 2024

Itay Lotem
Affiliation:
University of Westminster

Summary

Since the end of the Second World War, the political rationale to remember the past has shifted from previous focus on states' victories, as these began commemorating their own historical crimes. This Element follows the rise of 'auto-critical memory', or the politics of remembrance of a country's own dark past. The Element explores the idea's gestation in West Germany after the Second World War, its globalisation through initiatives of 'transitional justice' in the 1990s, and present-day debates about how to remember the colonial past. It follows different case studies that span the European continent – including Germany, France, Britain, Poland and Serbia – and places these in a global context that traces the circulation of ideas of auto-critical memory. Ultimately, as it follows the emergence of demands for social and racial justice, the Element questions the usefulness of memory to achieve the goals many political actors ascribe to it.
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Online ISBN: 9781009122948
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Dealing with Dark Pasts
  • Itay Lotem, University of Westminster
  • Online ISBN: 9781009122948
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Dealing with Dark Pasts
  • Itay Lotem, University of Westminster
  • Online ISBN: 9781009122948
Available formats No formats are currently available for this content.
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