Overcoming European Civil War

Patterns of Consolidation in Divided Societies, 2010–1800

Bibliographic Data

ID12416874
AuthorsIván Zoltán Dénes (Budapest Institute, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume20
Issue4
Pages455-474
Publication date2012-09-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1062-7987 • E-ISSN: 1474-0575
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s106279871200004x
OpenAlexW2129595123
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

Divided, sometimes antagonistic, communities in officially unified nations seem to be the rule in Europe. In some cases, they conjure up the most painful memories of actual civil-war events, but usually they constitute the common experience of most Europeans, who lived through different kinds of war, revolutions, counter-revolutions, coups d’état, dictatorships, totalitarian systems, regime changes, territorial losses, ethnic cleansings, and exchanges of population. In spite of major breakthroughs, we find all over Europe that the experiences and humiliations of previous generations have remained mainly unspoken and unelaborated at both individual and community levels. Dangerous as they are, such narratives and undigested traumas necessarily call for well-advised, learned and thoughtful acts of overwriting and reworking. A broadly based, well-founded, historical, multi- and interdisciplinary research project for the comparison of the various modes of trauma management in the different countries and regions of Europe can open up new perspectives and provide essential tools for working out individual and collective traumatic historical experiences. Its main question is how different communities were able to process their collective traumatic historical experiences, and what can be learned from the outcomes of these processes. The project will compare the common and different characteristics of the various regimes of memory and patterns of consolidation

Consolidation (business · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economics · Ethnic group · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Demography · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Migration, Health and Trauma · Military, Security, and Education Studies

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