Between Old Traditions and New Approaches
Locating Oral History and Memory Studies in East Central Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15068549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková (0000-0002-6722-7176, Palacký University Olomouc, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-218 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slovenský národopis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1335-1303 • E-ISSN: 1339-9357 |
| Publisher | Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2478/se-2021-0011 |
| OpenAlex | W3186324592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
The article explores how oral history and memory studies have been used in East Central Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain. It focuses particularly on the question of whether Eastern European scholars only reproduce what was invented in the West, or whether they advance their original concepts and ideas. Both disciplines have been involved in reassessing the history of communism and the communist version of history itself and both contributed to revealing memoires obscured by the communist regime, even if the role of oral history may be considered as pivotal in this process. Although oral history had been practiced in the region at least since the 1970s, it was introduced as a new discipline according to the Western criteria after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Memory studies and their most successful concept, the “lieux de mémoire”, were implemented into to the region later and the promoters of the concept were predominantly Western scholars. Drawing on the uses of the term “historical consciousness” in Czech and Polish research, the article argues that various strategies associated with the “return to Europe” can be found in the region when promoting native traditions and equalizing them with the Western ones
Archaeology · Cold war · Communism · Consciousness · Czech · East-Central Europe · Epistemology · Iron Curtain · Oral history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Western europe · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
The Oral History Reader
Europäische Erinnerungsorte 3
Twenty Years After Communism
A European Memory
Provincializing memory studies
Reclaiming the Personal
Commentary
Between Transnational Embeddedness and Relative Isolation
From Legacy and Tradition to lieux de mémoire
Historical Memory Research in Slovakia
Disputed Memory
Four Paradigm Transformations in Oral History
Social Memory Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |