Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania

This book traces the construction of postmemory in post-communist Romania, focusing on the processes, gaps, agents, and contradictions of postmemory and examining a range of topics across a variety of disciplines, while also considering marginalized and forgotten voices, such as those of abandoned children and Roma populations.

The first of its kind, this book traces the construction of post-memory in post-communist Romania.Focusing on the processes, gaps, agents, and contradictions of post-memory, it examines a range of topics across a variety of disciplines, addressing questions of museums and musealization, law and memory, political trials and retrospective justice, and post-memory in a digital context, while also considering marginalized and forgotten voices, such as those of the Roma population and abandoned children. Moving away from a focus on the institutional mechanisms of transitional justice or officially sanctioned historical narratives, Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania brings together some of the leading voices in the field of memory studies in Romania to adopt a more pluralistic and diverse approach to the communist past.It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, museum studies, and history with interests in the communist period in Eastern Europe.

Autorentext

Monica Ciobanu is Professor of Criminal Justice at Plattsburgh State University of New York, USA, and the author of Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964: Post-Communist Remembering.

Mihaela erban is Professor of Law and Society at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA, and the author of Subverting Communism in Romania: Law and Private Property: 1945-1965.

Inhalt

Introduction PART I MEMORY ARCHIVES 1 Telling Difficult Stories with Fragments of Experience: Short-Term Ethnography in the Securitate Archives 2 Nested Orientalism and Memory Places: The Roma in Romanian Securitate Archives 3 Law, Property Rights, and the Construction of Memory Regimes in Romania ART II THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEMORIES AND POST-MEMORIES 4 Between Transitional Justice and Retrospective Justice: The Case of Mircea Vulc nescu 5 The Monuments of the Royal Family and the Romanian Historical Memory 6 Memory and Post-Memory: Remembering the Communist Past in Digitally Mediated Contexts 7 Generations of Memory: Narratives of Conflicts, Gaps, and Intersections in Romanian Cinema PART III SITES OF MEMORY 8 Rubbles of Memory: The Memorial Afterlives of Communist Monuments in Post-communist Romania 9 Nostalgic Reconstructions of the Communist Past: The Private Museums of Daily Life during Communism in Romania 10 Popular Culture Exhibited: New Trends in the Musealization and Memorialization of the Romanian Socialist Past 11 Justice for the Forgotten Victims of the Communist Regime in Post-Transition Romania Conclusion