A European Memory? Contested histories and Politics of Remembrance

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: A European Memory? Magorzata Pakier and Bo Strath Part I. Europe, Memory, Politics, and History. Uneasy Relationships Chapter 1. On 'European Memory': Some Conceptual and Normative Remarks Jan -Werner Muller Chapter 2. The Uses of History and the Third Wave of Europeanization Klas-Goran Karlsson Chapter 3. Halecki Revisited: Europe's Conflicting Cultures of Remembrance Stefan Troebst Chapter 4. Iconic Remembering and Religious Icons: Fundamentalist Strategies in European Memory Politics? Wolfgang Kaschuba Chapter 5. Culture, Politics, Palimpsest. Theses on Memory and Society Heidemarie Uhl Chapter 6. Damnatio Memoriae and the Power of Remembrance. Reflections on Memory and History Frederick Whitling Chapter 7. Seeing Dark and Writing Light: Photography Approaching Dark and Obscure Histories James Kaye Part II. Remembering Europe's Dark Pasts Section 1. Remembering the Second World War: Chapter 8. Remembering the Second World War in Western Europe 1945 - 2005 Stefan Berger Chapter 9. Practices and Politics of Second World War Remembrance. (Trans-)National Perspectives from Eastern and South-eastern Europe Heike Karge Chapter 10. A Victory Celebrated. Danish and Norwegian Celebrations of the Liberation Clemens Maier Section 2. Towards a Europeanization of the Commemoration of the Holocaust: Chapter 11. Remembering Europe's Heart of Darkness - Legacies of the Holocaust in Post-war European Societies Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke Chapter 12. Holocaust Remembrance and Restitution of Jewish Property in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 Stanisaw Tyszka Chapter 13. A Europeanization of the Holocaust Memory? German and Polish Reception of Europa, Europa (1990) by Agnieszka Holland Magorzata Pakier Chapter 14. Italian Commemoration of the Shoah. The Construction of a Survivor-oriented Narrative and its Impact on Italian Politics and Practices of Remembrance Ruth Nattermann Section 3. Coming to Terms with Europe's Communist Past: Chapter 15. Managing the History of the Past in the Former Communist States Arfon Rees Chapter 16. Eurocommunism. Commemorating Communism in Contemporary Eastern Europe Peter Apor Chapter 17. The Memory of the Dead Body Senadin Musabegovi Chapter 18. Neither Help nor Pardon? Communist Pasts in Western Europe Kevin Morgan Section 4. Coming to Terms with Europe's Colonial Past: Chapter 19. Politics of Remembrance, Colonialism, and the Algerian War in France Jan Jansen 20. Memory Politics and the Use of History: Finnish-speaking Minorities at the North Calotte Lars Elenius Conclusion. Nightmares or Daydreams? A Postscript on the Europeanization of Memories Konrad H. Jarausch Bibliography