Paratopic Recollections. Communism in Swedish Collective Memory
Autor: | Adrian Velicu |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sweden
021110 strategic defence & security studies Psychoanalysis 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology communism Collective memory 0506 political science memory Political science 050602 political science & public administration Law Europeanization Communism paratopic |
Zdroj: | Politeja, Vol 15, Iss 1(52) (2018) |
ISSN: | 2391-6737 1733-6716 |
DOI: | 10.12797/politeja.15.2018.52.08 |
Popis: | This paper discusses the collective memory of communism in Sweden after 1989 and its role in the process of Europeanization. Sweden lacks the direct experience of communism and any such recollections are bound to be mediated. Such memories of experiences outside the Swedish political and social context (para-contextual or para-topic instances) are examined in terms of transnational collective memory. That is why the analysis treats these memories as part of the process of Europeanization. The material amounts to institutional and rhetorical examples featuring the memory of communism. Three sets of concepts help scrutinize these sources: Klas-Göran Karlsson’s view of three-wave European integration (economic, political and cultural), Avishai Margalit’s distinction between ‘thick’ (family, nation) and ‘thin’ (humanity) communities of remembrance where the ethics of memory can work transnationally in a context of human rights, and Jeffrey Andrew Barash’s connection between ‘public memory’ and ‘imagination’. By discussing the material within this framework, the argument concludes that paratopic recollections and the dynamics of Europeanization converge, highlighting a new aspect in this process of integration. |
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