CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Semren, Ivona |
|---|---|
| Title | Politics of memory and identity formation in the context of violent conflicts: war commemorations in Croatia and Ukraine |
| Summary | The process of collective identity formation raised to the state level formulates the official identity narrative that reflects and legitimizes certain politics. Commemoration rituals are one of many manifestations of the official state narrative, which are particularly relevant for formulating the collective memory of wars. Therefore, studying the commemoration events allows to look into the commemorations related to war as an institutionalized nation-building project. How these two conflicts are related to the revision of the history of WWII is tracked through the changes in the discourse in commemorations related to WWII, in which the newer conflicts are reflected. The process of nation-building in Croatia and Ukraine has different patterns in terms of the changes in commemoration rituals related to the Second World War, despite the fact that both countries had similar pre-conditions in terms of their controversial past related to WWII and regime change after the break-up of the USSR and Yugoslavia. Institutionalized changes of commemoration rituals in Ukraine happened only after the outbreak of the conflict in Donbas, while in Croatia they took place earlier after the Homeland War. |
| Supervisor | Jenne, Erin Kristin |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/semren_ivona.pdf |
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