Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans

This volume explores how the process of European integration has influenced collective memory in the countries of the Western Balkans. In the region, there is still no shared understanding of the causes (and consequences) of the Yugoslav wars. The conflicts of the 1990s but also of WWII and its aftermath have created ethnically confined memory cultures. As such, divergent interpretations of history continue to trigger confrontations between neighboring countries and hinder the creation of a joint EU perspective. In this volume, the authors examine how these memory wars impact the European dimension - by becoming a tool to either support or oppose Europeanisation. The contributors focus on how and why memory is renegotiated, exhibited, adjusted, or ignored in the Europeanisation process.

Provides a unique analysis of 'memory war' in the context of the European integration of the countries in the Western Balkans Introduces a number of interesting case-studies focusing on the role of key memory sites from across the Western Balkans Looks at unique practices that contest certain memorialization practices through lenses of gender, reconciliation and EU integration?

Autorentext

Ana Miloevi is Researcher at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. Tamara Trot is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction: Europeanisation and Memory Politics in the Western Balkans (Ana Miloevi and Tamara Trot).- Chapter 2. Building upon the European Union's Anti-Fascist Foundations: The etniks and Serbia's Memory Politics between Europeanisation and Russia (Jelena ureinovi).- Chapter 3. Erasing Yugoslavia, Ignoring Europe: The Perils of the Europeanisation Process in Contemporary Croatian Memory Politics (Taylor McConnell).- Chapter 4. European Union Guidelines to Reconciliation in Mostar: How to Remember? What to Forget? (Aline Cateux).- Chapter 5. Constructing a Usable Past: Changing Memory Politics in Jasenovac Memorial Museum (Aleksandra Zaremba).- Chapter 6. Effects of Europeanised Memory in Artworks as Monuments (Manca Bajec).- Chapter 7. Skopje 2014 Reappraised: Debating a Memory Project in North Macedonia (Naum Trajanovski).- Chapter 8. Europeanising History to (Re)Construct the Statehood Narrative: The Reinterpretation of World War One in Montenegro (Nikola Zeevi).- Chapter 9. Narratives of Gender, War Memory, and EU-Scepticism in the Movement against the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia (Dunja Obajdin and Slobodan Goluin).- Chapter 10. Against Institutionalised Forgetting: Memory Politics from Below in Postwar Prijedor (Zoran Vukovac).- Chapter 11. Violence, War and Gender: Collective Memory and Politics of Remembrance in Kosovo (Abit Hoxha and Kenneth Andresen).- Chapter 12. Conclusion (Ana Miloevi).