Introduction From Populism to Decolonisation: How We Remember in the Twenty-First Century

Memory wars in postimperial settings: The challenges of transnationalism and the risks of new totalizing mnemonics

“…This development has broad implications beyond political development in Central and Eastern European countries, where the ‘symbolic capital’ of the memory of communism (Bekus, 2021; Dujisin, 2021; Zombory, 2020) has assisted the political struggle and completion of the unfinished 1989 revolution (Mark, 2010). It was also deployed to equate Europeanization with anti-totalitarianism, while de-radicalizing the Western left (Forsdick et al, 2020). Furthermore, this development produced an important effect for the field of memory studies by opening the way for revising the mnemonic hierarchies that had underpinned the international order since the end of World War II.…”