List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: A European Memory?
Małgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth
Part I. Europe, Memory, Politics, and History. Uneasy Relationships
Chapter 1. On ‘European Memory’: Some
Conceptual and Normative Remarks
Jan –Werner Müller
Chapter 2. The Uses of History and the Third
Wave of Europeanization
Klas-Göran Karlsson
Chapter 3. Halecki Revisited: Europe’s
Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance
Stefan Troebst
Chapter 4. Iconic Remembering and Religious
Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics?
Wolfgang Kaschuba
Chapter 5. Culture, Politics, Palimpsest.
Theses on Memory and Society
Heidemarie Uhl
Chapter 6. Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of
Remembrance. Reflections on Memory and History
Frederick Whitling
Chapter 7. Seeing Dark and Writing Light:
Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories
James Kaye
Part II. Remembering Europe’s Dark Pasts
Section 1. Remembering the Second World War:
Chapter 8. Remembering the Second World War in Western
Europe 1945 – 2005
Stefan Berger
Chapter 9. Practices and Politics of Second
World War Remembrance. (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern
and South-eastern Europe
Heike Karge
Chapter 10. A Victory Celebrated. Danish and
Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation
Clemens Maier
Section 2. Towards a Europeanization of the
Commemoration of the Holocaust:
Chapter 11. Remembering Europe’s Heart of
Darkness - Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European
Societies
Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke
Chapter 12. Holocaust Remembrance and
Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland
after 1989
Stanisław Tyszka
Chapter 13. A Europeanization of the Holocaust
Memory? German and Polish Reception of Europa, Europa (1990) by
Agnieszka Holland
Małgorzata Pakier
Chapter 14. Italian Commemoration of the Shoah.
The Construction of a Survivor-oriented Narrative and its Impact on
Italian Politics and Practices of Remembrance
Ruth Nattermann
Section 3. Coming to Terms with Europe’s Communist
Past:
Chapter 15. Managing the History of the Past in
the Former Communist States
Arfon Rees
Chapter 16. Eurocommunism. Commemorating
Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe
Péter Apor
Chapter 17. The Memory of the Dead Body
Senadin Musabegović
Chapter 18. Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist
Pasts in Western Europe
Kevin Morgan
Section 4. Coming to Terms with Europe’s Colonial
Past:
Chapter 19. Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism,
and the Algerian War in France
Jan Jansen
Chapter 20. Memory Politics and the Use of
History: Finnish-speaking Minorities at the North Calotte
Lars Elenius
Conclusion: Nightmares or Daydreams? A
Postscript on the Europeanization of Memories
Konrad H. Jarausch
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Małgorzata Pakier is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and is also active in planning the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. She received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Department of History and Civilization. Her research interests include the media of memory, especially film, museum, and city spaces, and Holocaust memory and representation.
“Editors Malgorzata Pakier and Bo Strath and the score of contributing scholars deserve commendation for a collection of ambitious essays, many of which represent bold attempts at explaining and synthesizing complex concepts and processes.” · Journal of Cold War Studies “The book provides an extremely useful guide through the labyrinth of issues concerning Europeans and the politics of remembrance. The editors deserve great credit for taking on and attempting to represent the multiplicity of debates that characterize contemporary European visions of and debates about the past.” · Central European History “This work assembles the most recent reflections on the cultural unification of Europe as well as…proposes a serious interdisciplinary discussion of practices of memory. A work that is useful for whoever wishes to have an overview of the questions arising from the internationalization of national memoirs and to reflect on the role of the historian in the context of the multiple discourses on the past.” · Histoire sociale/Social History “An anthology of impressive and seminal scholarly research, ‘A European Memory?’ is a welcome addition to the Berghahn Books' outstanding 'Studies in Contemporary European History' series and highly recommended for academic library European History reference collections and supplemental reading lists.” · Bookwatch “[This timely volume] comes as a worthy and insightful reader on one of the core fields of debate in European social and human sciences, with its focus on the representations of the most deplorable parts of European twentieth-century history…Many of its articles offer interesting thoughts and useful introductions, highlighting both actors and structures of ‘memory production’…It will no doubt be a handy companion in classes on politics and history in contemporary Europe.” · H-Soz-u-Kult “As the most comprehensive scholarly venture to use the memory concept for a broad assessment of the dark legacies of Nazism, Communism, and World War II for a common European identity, the volume has no equal. It overwhelms the reader with a plethora of both new and well established information and reflection…The overall direction coincides with the current trend towards internationalization of national histories. It can be considered a strong contribution to this important and worthwhile trend.” · Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania
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