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1 Introduction

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Abstract

This chapter presents the RePAST European project that served as a basis for information gathering and research used in this monograph. It explains the rationale behind the book and presents a theoretical and conceptual approach to the study of collective memory, conflict, troubled pasts and trauma in European societies. This chapter also describes the multidisciplinary approach to the study of memory and present the four topical foci in the monograph, namely official and oral history, journalistic and citizen-led media, political discourses and policies, and arts and culture.

In the end it explains different criteria for the selection of case studies and gives a brief description of troubled pasts in country cases that are further studied in each chapter.

Abstract

This chapter presents the RePAST European project that served as a basis for information gathering and research used in this monograph. It explains the rationale behind the book and presents a theoretical and conceptual approach to the study of collective memory, conflict, troubled pasts and trauma in European societies. This chapter also describes the multidisciplinary approach to the study of memory and present the four topical foci in the monograph, namely official and oral history, journalistic and citizen-led media, political discourses and policies, and arts and culture.

In the end it explains different criteria for the selection of case studies and gives a brief description of troubled pasts in country cases that are further studied in each chapter.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. List of Figures and Table iv
  4. List of Abbreviations v
  5. About the Authors vii
  6. Acknowledgements x
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Methodology: From Research Results to Recommendations 16
  9. Non-EU Member States
  10. Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Coexistence to Unresolvable Past? 23
  11. Kosovo: Troubled Past and Its Path to Moving On 40
  12. EU Member States
  13. Germany: The Wall is Dead, Long Live the Wall!? 57
  14. Ireland beyond Ethnopolitics: Recommendations for All-Island Integration 72
  15. Spain: How to Overcome the Polarization about the Conflicts of the Past? 95
  16. Cyprus: The EU’s Role in Europe’s Last Divided Country 110
  17. Poland: Strategies for Challenging the Growing Dominance of Right-wing Memory Politics 126
  18. The European Union 143
  19. Conclusion 164
  20. Notes 171
  21. References 176
  22. Index 198
Troubled Pasts in Europe
This chapter is in the book Troubled Pasts in Europe
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529233643-005

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. List of Figures and Table iv
  4. List of Abbreviations v
  5. About the Authors vii
  6. Acknowledgements x
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Methodology: From Research Results to Recommendations 16
  9. Non-EU Member States
  10. Bosnia and Herzegovina: From Coexistence to Unresolvable Past? 23
  11. Kosovo: Troubled Past and Its Path to Moving On 40
  12. EU Member States
  13. Germany: The Wall is Dead, Long Live the Wall!? 57
  14. Ireland beyond Ethnopolitics: Recommendations for All-Island Integration 72
  15. Spain: How to Overcome the Polarization about the Conflicts of the Past? 95
  16. Cyprus: The EU’s Role in Europe’s Last Divided Country 110
  17. Poland: Strategies for Challenging the Growing Dominance of Right-wing Memory Politics 126
  18. The European Union 143
  19. Conclusion 164
  20. Notes 171
  21. References 176
  22. Index 198
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