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Necropolitics of Memory in the Post-socialist Croatia

The paper examine the thesis that the making of the new sovereign national states in the former Yugoslavia had necropolitical features. The aim of the paper is to explore the politics of memory in Croatia, especially, places of memory and the role of culture in the process of making new sovereign state. We conclude that this politics of memory in the making can by analogy be regarded as necropolitcs of memory. The main thesis is that necropolitics of memory resulted in the destruction of WWII monuments and memory places dedicated to the National Liberation (Partisan) struggle. This destruction occurred due to the process of naturalization of memory and monuments that contained the bits of inimical flesh as remnants of sovereign violence once inflicted to national flesh. This is the reason why monuments became objects of necropolitical purification and the destruction.

Necropolitics; Nationalism; Racism; Biopower; Flesh; Memory; National Liberation Struggle; Socialist Modernism; Post-socialism; Croatia

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