Akadémiai szimpózium
Előadó: Zombory Máté (MTA TK Szociológiai Intézet)
Hozzászóló: Csigó Péter (BME)
Absztrakt
This article provides a critical sociological analysis of contemporary transnational memory politics in Europe. It explores the historical development through which the post-Cold War debate on Europe’s constitutive historical legacies took the form of mimetic competition of victims and thus failed to provide a possible common ground of political community. Instead of “drawing lessons of the past”, the culturally similar and competing memories of the Holocaust and of Communism have acquired mythical relevance, impeding political discourse proper.
Kulcsszavak
competitive victimization, cultural mimesis, memory politics, transnationalism, post-Cold War Europe, Holocaust, Communism, European enlargement, critical historical sociology