The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia: Collaboration, Resistance and Retribution

ISBN-13: 9781032239736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Jelena Đureinovic

Opis

Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and post-war retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, this book analyses the politics of memory.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Exploring politics of memory  3. Yugoslav memory culture and its downfall  4. The Miloševic era  5. Memory politics in post-Miloševic Serbia  6. Unearthing the past  7. Anti-communist memory politics from below  8. History, memory and law  9. Rehabilitation of Dragoljub Mihailovic  10. Conclusion

O autorze

Jelena Ðureinovic holds a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, where she teaches in the Department of History. Her research deals with the history and politics of memory of the Second World War in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav space with the focus on the process of reinterpretation of the Chetnik movement in Serbia. She was a visiting research fellow at the Moore Institute in Galway, the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz and the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies in the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She has published on Europeanisation and memory politics, memory laws, discourses of victimhood under communism and relations between memory cultures in Croatia and Serbia.