Youth and Memory in Europe: Defining the Past, Shaping the Future

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Youth and Memory in Europe

Defining the Past, Shaping the Future

Edited by: Félix Krawatzek and Nina Friess

Volume 34 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733501

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This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country’s history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays attention to how both formal education and broader culture communicate ideas about the past, and how young people respond to these ideas. The studies collected in this volume show that such ideas about the past are central to the formation of the group identities of nations, social movements, or religious groups. Young people express received historical narratives in new, potentially subversive, ways. As young people tend to be more mobile and ready to interrogate their own roots than later generations, they selectively privilege certain aspects of their identities and their identification with their family or nation while neglecting others. This collection aims to correct the popular misperception that young people are indifferent towards history and prove instead that historical narratives are constitutive to their individual identities and their sense of belonging to something broader than themselves.

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Félix Krawatzek und Nina Friess, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Félix Krawatzek and Nina Friess Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Transmitting the Past to Young Minds Félix Krawatzek and Nina Friess Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I: Regional Perspectives
A Former Soviet Republic? Historical Perspectives on Belarus Félix Krawatzek and Nina Weller Open Access Download PDF	27
Without Roots? The Historical Realm of Young Belarusians Félix Krawatzek Open Access Download PDF	41
“Let’s be Belarusians!” On the Reappropriation of Belarusian History in Popular Culture Nina Weller Open Access Download PDF	59
The “Wild Nineties”: Youth Engagement, Memory and Continuities between Yeltsin’s and Putin’s Russia Allyson Edwards and Roberto Rabbia Open Access Download PDF	75
Russian Youth as Subject and Object of the 1990s “Memory War” Roberto Rabbia Open Access Download PDF	85
“Dear Young Warriors”: Memories of Sacrifice, Debt and Youth Militarisation in Yeltsin’s Russia Allyson Edwards Open Access Download PDF	99
The Making of a Young Martyr: Discursive Legacies of the Turkish “Youth Myth” in the Afterlife of Deniz Gezmiş Duygu Erbil Open Access Download PDF	113
Youth au Féminin: Gendering Activist Memory in Turkey Lucie G. Drechselová Open Access Download PDF	127
Official Narratives of the Civil War and the Franco Regime in the Twenty-first Century M. Paula O’Donohoe, Begoña Regueiro Salgado and Pilar García Carcedo Open Access Download PDF	143
Anti-militaristic and Pacifist Values across Spanish Children’s Literature Begoña Regueiro Salgado and Pilar García Carcedo Open Access Download PDF	151
Transmitting the Civil War across Generations: How Spanish Youth Acquire their Memories M. Paula O’Donohoe Open Access Download PDF	167
(Post)-Yugoslav Memory Travels: National and Transnational Dimensions Mirko Milivojevic and Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova Open Access Download PDF	181
“I am something that no longer exists ...”: Yugonostalgia among Diaspora Youth Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova Open Access Download PDF	191
The Yugoslav 1980s and Youth Portrayals in Post-Yugoslav Films and TV Mirko Milivojević Open Access Download PDF	205
Part II: Thematic Perspectives
Promoting Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent Views: The Making of Historical Narratives and National Identity in Russia and Poland Jade McGlynn, Karoline Thaidigsmann and Nina Friess Open Access Download PDF	221
Living Forms of Patriotism: Engaging Young Russians in Military History? Jade McGlynn Open Access Download PDF	231
Engaging Young Readers in History: Alternative Historical Narratives in Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature Nina Friess Open Access Download PDF	247
Engaging the Reader − Revising Patriotism: Polish Children’s and Crossover Literature in the Twenty-First Century Karoline Thaidigsmann Open Access Download PDF	261
Dealing with Contested Pasts from Northern Ireland to French Algeria: Transformative Strategies of Agonism in Action? Chris Reynolds and Paul Max Morin Open Access Download PDF	277
The Dark Corners of European Colonial Memory in Films and Literature Thomas Richard and Christiane Connan-Pintado Open Access Download PDF	303
Fictionalisation of Slavery in Children’s Books in France Christiane Connan-Pintado Open Access Download PDF	313
King Sebastian and Lost Paradise? Amnesia and Opposing Myths Thomas Richard Open Access Download PDF	325
Beyond the Normative Understanding of Holocaust Memory: Between Cosmopolitan Memory and Local Reality Solveig Hennebert and Isabel Sawkins Open Access Download PDF	339
Understanding Terrible Crimes: Youth Memory of the Holocaust in the Russian Federation Isabel Sawkins Open Access Download PDF	349
“I am not comfortable with that”: Commemorative Practices among Young Jewish People in France Solveig Hennebert Open Access Download PDF	365
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	379
Index Open Access Download PDF	383

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars interested in Cultural studies, memory studies, comparative European studies, youth research
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 390
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 16
- Tables: 3
Keywords: Cultural studies; memory studies; social sciences; youth; research methods

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Published: June 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110733501

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Published: June 6, 2022
ISBN: 9783110738308