Framing the Nation and Collective Identities: Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of the Twentieth-Century Traumas in Croatia

ISBN-13: 9781138504011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 246 str.

Vjeran Pavlakovic; Davor Paukovic

Opis

This book analyses top-down and bottom-up strategies of framing the nation and collective identities through commemorative practices relating to events from World War Two and the 1990s ‘Homeland War’ in Croatia.

Spis treści

Framing the Nation: An Introduction to Commemorative Culture in Croatia  Part 1: Socio-Cultural, Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Croatia's Commemorative Culture  1. Sociocultural and Ideological Determinants of Memory Culture in Croatian Society  2. A Contemporary Philosophical Perspective on Cultural Memory in Croatia  3. An Ontological and Constructional Approach to the Discourse Analysis of the Commemorative Speeches in Croatia  Part 2: The Second World War Commemorations: Contested Sites of the Shared Past?  4. Framing the Narrative About Communist Crimes in Croatia: Bleiburg and Jazovka   5. Contested Sites and Fragmented Narratives: Jasenovac and Disruptions in Croatia’s Commemorative Culture  Part 3: The Homeland War Commemorations  6. Heroes at the Margins: Veterans, Elites and the Narrative of War  7. Ambassadors of Memory: "Honouring the Homeland War" in Croatian Sport  8. Remembering the Hague: The Impact of International Criminal Justice on Memory Practices in Croatia  9. Filling Voids with Memories: Commemorative Rituals and Memorial Landscape in Post-War Vukovar  Part 4: Transnational Dimensions of Memory  10. Homeland Celebrations Far Away from Home: The Case of the Croatian Diaspora in Argentina  11. European Commemoration of Vukovar: Shared Memory or Joint Remembrance?