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23 - The European Union and Memory

from Thinking and Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2023

By
Ana Milošević
Edited by
Mathieu Segers  and
Steven Van Hecke
Mathieu Segers
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
Steven Van Hecke
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
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Summary

This chapter engages with the under-explored knots of European memory politics both theoretically and empirically, linking theories of European Union (EU) integration with the study of collective memory at transnational, EU level. Collective memory is a deeply political phenomenon: it is politically embedded, reflecting political visions, and enacting social and political worlds. Traditionally studied in Sociology and History, Nationalism and Cultural Studies, the politics of manifold memory practices has more recently emerged as an object of academic interest for International Relations (IR), International Law, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Theory, Comparative Politics and the transdisciplinary field of Memory Studies proper. However, only recently has the study of collective memory overcome the boundaries of methodological nationalism to question and analyse the impact the EU has had on nation-state memories, and vice versa.

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The Cambridge History of the European Union , pp. 591 - 611
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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De Cesari, C. and Kaya, A. (eds.). European Memory in Populism: Representations of Self and Other (New York, NY, Routledge, 2020).Google Scholar
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