Table of Contents

Introduction: Modalities of Time, History and Memory in Ethnonational Conflicts Rebecca Bryant and Yiannis Papadakis 1. A Critical Comparison of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Official Historiographies (1940s to the Present) Mete Hatay and Yiannis Papadakis 2. Beyond the History Textbook Debate: Official Histories in Greek Cypriot Geography and Civics Curricula Stavroula Philippou 3. Hegemony, Permissible Public Discourse and Lower Class Political Culture Andreas Panayiotou 4. The ‘Left-overs’ of History: Reconsidering the ‘Unofficial’ History of the Left in Cyprus and the Cypriot Diaspora Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou 5. Senses of Belonging and ‘Belongings’ and Making ‘Home’ away from Home Aybil Göker 6. Imagining Homelands: Poetics and Performance among Cypriot Armenians Susan Pattie 7. The Fractures of a Struggle: Remembering and Forgetting Erenköy Rebecca Bryant 8. Correcting the Record: Memory, Minority Insecurity and Admissible Evidence Peter Loizos 9. On the Need to Belong to a Non-Cypriot History Mehmet Ratip 10. Truth, Memory and the Cypriot Journey towards a New Past Catia Galatariotou

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The island of Cyprus has been bitterly divided for years. One of the most divisive elements of the Cyprus conflict is the writing of its history, a history called on by both communities to justify and explain their own notions of justice. This title tells the story of the island.

About the Author

Rebecca Bryant is Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University and author of Imagining the Modern: The Cultures of Nationalism in Cyprus (I.B.Tauris). Yiannis Papadakis is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Echoes from the Dead Zone (I.B.Tauris).