Criminalizing communism: Transnational mnemopolitics in Europe
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Criminalizing communism : Transnational mnemopolitics in Europe. / Mälksoo, M.
I: International Political Sociology, Bind 8, Nr. 1, 2014, s. 82-99.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Criminalizing communism
T2 - Transnational mnemopolitics in Europe
AU - Mälksoo, M.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The Eastern enlargement of the European Union has intensified calls for the reconstruction of a common European remembrance of the continent's multiple totalitarian legacies. Various political initiatives to condemn, along with counter-attempts to re-legitimize, the legacy of communism have emerged at the pan-European level. Each aspires to leave an imprint on the symbolic moral order and the legal regime of the broader European community. This article builds a conceptual framework for understanding the contestation of political and juridical regulation of the transnational remembrance of totalitarian communist regimes in Europe. Critically engaging the concept of cosmopolitanization of memory, it is argued that mnemonic identity in Europe is being transformed via new claims on “European memory.” These claims are being made by various East European actors seeking recognition of the region's particular historical legacies as part of the pan-European normative verdict on twentieth-century totalitarianisms.
AB - The Eastern enlargement of the European Union has intensified calls for the reconstruction of a common European remembrance of the continent's multiple totalitarian legacies. Various political initiatives to condemn, along with counter-attempts to re-legitimize, the legacy of communism have emerged at the pan-European level. Each aspires to leave an imprint on the symbolic moral order and the legal regime of the broader European community. This article builds a conceptual framework for understanding the contestation of political and juridical regulation of the transnational remembrance of totalitarian communist regimes in Europe. Critically engaging the concept of cosmopolitanization of memory, it is argued that mnemonic identity in Europe is being transformed via new claims on “European memory.” These claims are being made by various East European actors seeking recognition of the region's particular historical legacies as part of the pan-European normative verdict on twentieth-century totalitarianisms.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - memory politics
KW - European memory
KW - transnational memory
KW - cosmopolitan memory
KW - criminalizing communism
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U2 - 10.1111/ips.12041
DO - 10.1111/ips.12041
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 82
EP - 99
JO - International Political Sociology
JF - International Political Sociology
SN - 1749-5679
IS - 1
ER -
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