CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Buier, Natalia Cornelia |
|---|---|
| Title | Officializing the Past - An Analysis of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania |
| Summary | This work puts forward an analysis of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Romanian Communist Dictatorship. Relying on a broadened understanding of the field of historical production, I try to identify and explain the mentions and silences which constitute a historical narrative and the relationship in which this stands to an act of official nomination. I argue that the imposition of schemes of classifying the past functions so as to reproduce and legitimize existing relations, while disconnecting the past from the possibility of plural structurations. A particular view on the past sanctioned in the official narrative takes the appearance of a singular one, and as such functions to naturalize a contingent social relationship and its reflection in a form of remembering as a necessary one. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Fabiani, Jean-Louis |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/buier_natalia.pdf |
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