A European Memory?
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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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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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Introduction: A European Memory?
Malgorzata Pakier and Bo Stråth
Part I. Europe, Memory, Politics, and History. Uneasy Relationships
Chapter 1. On 'European Memory': Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks
Jan -Werner Müller
Chapter 2. The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanization
Klas-Göran Karlsson
Chapter 3. Halecki Revisited: Europe's Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance
Stefan Troebst
Chapter 4. Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics?
Wolfgang Kaschuba
Chapter 5. Culture, Politics, Palimpsest. Theses on Memory and Society
Heidemarie Uhl
Chapter 6. Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance. Reflections on Memory and History
Frederick Whitling
Chapter 7. Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories
James Kaye
Part II. Remembering Europe's Dark Pasts
Section 1. Remembering the Second World War:
Chapter 8. Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe 1945 - 2005
Stefan Berger
Chapter 9. Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance. (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-eastern Europe
Heike Karge
Chapter 10. A Victory Celebrated. Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation
Clemens Maier
Section 2. Towards a Europeanization of the Commemoration of the Holocaust:
Chapter 11. Remembering Europe's Heart of Darkness - Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies
Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke
Chapter 12. Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989
Stanislaw Tyszka
Chapter 13. A Europeanization of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of Europa, Europa (1990) by Agnieszka Holland
Malgorzata Pakier
Chapter 14. Italian Commemoration of the Shoah. The Construction of a Survivor-oriented Narrative and its Impact on Italian Politics and Practices of Remembrance
Ruth Nattermann
Section 3. Coming to Terms with Europe's Communist Past:
Chapter 15. Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States
Arfon Rees
Chapter 16. Eurocommunism. Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe
Péter Apor
Chapter 17. The Memory of the Dead Body
Senadin Musabegovic
Chapter 18. Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe
Kevin Morgan
Section 4. Coming to Terms with Europe's Colonial Past:
Chapter 19. Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism, and the Algerian War in France
Jan Jansen
Chapter 20. Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-speaking Minorities at the North Calotte
Lars Elenius
Conclusion: Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanization of Memories
Konrad H. Jarausch
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