Reassessing the EU Memory Divide: Dereifying Collective Memory through a Memory Regimes Approach
(2024) History & Memory : studies in representation of the past — Vol. 36, n° 1, p. 140-175 (2024)
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- This article questions the persisting notion that the European Union's memory is fractured between East and West, a notion that contributes to the reification of states as legitimately embodying national collective memories. It does so by building on actor-centered examinations of the EU memory divide, which is manifested in a challenge to the EU's Holocaust-centered narrative by an antitotalitarian memory regime, defined as an institutionalized network of politically driven historiographic expertise. The article shows that the antitotalitarian memory regime reflects a political culture of remembrance centered on a "politics of certainty" that disregards open historiographic disputes and contests the EU's hitherto prevailing "politics of regret."
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Dujisin, Z. (2024). Reassessing the EU Memory Divide: Dereifying Collective Memory through a Memory Regimes Approach. History & Memory : studies in representation of the past, 36(1), 140-175. https://doi.org/10.2979/ham.00006 (Original work published 2024)