A European Memory?: Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance (Studies in Contemporary European History, Band 6)

Buch 3 von 17: Contemporary European History
 
9781845456214: A European Memory?: Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance (Studies in Contemporary European History, Band 6)
ISBN 10: 1845456211 ISBN 13: 9781845456214
Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2010

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An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe-with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences-was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe's past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe's past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Malgorzata 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.

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An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors argue that this rejection of the European constitution was to a certain extent a challenge to the current historical grounding used for further integration and further demonstrates the lack of understanding by European bureaucrats of the historical complexity and divisiveness of Europe s past. A critical European history is therefore urgently needed to confront and re-imagine Europe, not as a harmonious continent but as the outcome of violent and bloody conflicts, both within Europe as well as with its Others. As the authors show, these dark shadows of Europe s past must be integrated, and the fact that memories of Europe are contested must be accepted if any new attempts at a United Europe are to be successful.

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Verlag
Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1845456211
ISBN 13 
9781845456214
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
374
Herausgeber
Pakier Ma¿gorzata, Stråth Bo
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