#125 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/125/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:20:49 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png #125 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/125/ 32 32 Jedwabne Pogrom Memorial in Jedwabne https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/jedwabne-pogrom-memorial-in-jedwabne?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jedwabne-pogrom-memorial-in-jedwabne Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:32:50 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// The Jedwabne pogrom memorial was renewed in 2001, following controversies surrounding who the perpetrators of the massacre were. This case study explores moral questions over the commemoration and memory of perpetrators, Poland’s responsibility for the slaughter, and how tragic events such as historical pogroms should be commemorated in the contemporary era. To this day the […]

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]]> The Jedwabne pogrom memorial was renewed in 2001, following controversies surrounding who the perpetrators of the massacre were. This case study explores moral questions over the commemoration and memory of perpetrators, Poland’s responsibility for the slaughter, and how tragic events such as historical pogroms should be commemorated in the contemporary era. To this day the Jedwabne Memorial and its vital role in uncovering Poland’s tabooed past created a new precedent in the Polish public sphere and remains a site of contested memory that persists to this day.

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]]> Post-Communist Poland https://contestedhistories.org/resources/books/post-communist-poland?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=post-communist-poland Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:40:00 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// The book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland and impacts on foreign and […]

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]]> The book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland and impacts on foreign and domestic policy.

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