Flix Krawatzek co-edits book on European Memory

A book co-edited by Flix Krawatzek and entitled Europische Erinnerung als verflochtene Erinnerung (European memory as intertwined memory) has just been published.

Starting point for this publication is a critique of an unreflected instrumentalisation of ‘European Memory’ in current public and academic discourse. In order to respond to this tendency, the articles develop an approach that accentuates the polyphony and multiple layers of memory, that is its entangled character.

Rather than understanding ‘European Memory’ as a normative ideal or an empirical concept for days of remembrance, museums or schoolbooks, this approach perceives ‘European Memory’ as a discursive reality of which academic discourse is an integral part. It manifests itself whenever actors pick up ‘Europe’ in their interpretations of the past. Covering a broad spectre of European memory between the Vikings and the Srebrenica massacre the volume includes fiffering attributes of European self-descriptions and enquires into the entanglements of memory in present and past that are linked with these interpretations.

The authors thus attempt to deepen the understanding of the topics and motivation to conceive memory as European.

You can find out more about the book by clicking here: http://www.v-r.de/en/title-0-0/europaeische_erinnerung_als_verflochtene_erinnerung-1010398/