(Un)culture of Remembrance: The Role of Memorials and Commemorative Practices in Post-Conflict Social Recovery
(Un)culture of Remembrance: The Role of Memorials and Commemorative Practices in Post-Conflict Social Recovery
Author(s): Tamara Banjeglav
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Civil Society, Recent History (1900 till today), Studies in violence and power, Politics of History/Memory, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Documenta - Centar za suočavanje s prošlošću
Keywords: civil society; culture of remembrance; heritage; memorials; commemorative practices; social recovery;
Summary/Abstract: In each post-conflict society which comes into existence and develops after traumatic events, such as wars and other forms of physical violence, there are attempts to suppress the memory of those events in order to “move on” and to “leave the past behind us”. However, memory is instinctive and cannot be suppressed just like that. It will, inevitably, occur, come to the surface in one form or another. For this reason, in an attempt to master the violent past, we are often faced with a challenge how to best use our memory with the aim of learning from past events so that they would never be repeated again.
Book: Working on Dealing with the Past - A Handbook for Civil Society Organizations
- Page Range: 40-45
- Page Count: 6
- Publication Year: 2013
- Language: English
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