New Episode of Memory Cultures in Dialogue: Exiting the 1990s

New Episode of Memory Cultures in Dialogue: Exiting the 1990s

Kulture sećanja - Audio - Story - 1Public memory of war victims is often dominated by ethnocentric narratives as a national strategy, emphasizing the scale of crimes of Other while marginalizing one’s own. What’s missing seems to be not only a moral reckoning but also a continuous historical-didactic, pedagogical, media, museological, and aesthetic debate as the foundation for creating a memory culture that includes remembering the crimes committed in our own name.

Memory culture is not necessarily a process aimed at reconciliation with crimes or forgiveness. Rather, it is about learning how to live with memory, recognizing that crimes are a part of our history and collective identity. It is also a process of learning that shared ways of living before the crimes existed and that such ways can be rebuilt through the effort of all actors and socio-political engagement aimed at dismantling identity politics that focus solely on ethnic-national identities.


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