Naslov
How Does this Monument Make You Feel?: Measuring Emotional Responses to War Memorials in Croatia

Autori
Pavlaković, Vjeran, Perak, Benedikt

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, pp prezentacija, ostalo

Izvornik
3rd PLENARY CONFERENCE Transcultural memory and reception in Europe 16-20 April 2016, Sofia / - Sofija, 2016

Skup
3rd PLENARY COST ISTME CONFERENCE: Transcultural memory and reception in Europe 16-20 April 2016, Sofia

Mjesto i datum
Sofija, Bugarska, 16.04.2016. - 20.04.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
cultural memory ; commemoration ;

Sažetak
In our previous research presented at COST meetings related to Action ISTME 1203, the focus was on the transformation of WW2 commemorative practices that were initiated from the top-down primarily by political elites. The recasting of Nazi collaborators into victims of communism and the adoption of transnational narratives by both the left (EU antifascist discourse) and right (EU condemnation of communist crimes) in Croatia since 1990 identified the mnemonic actors (politicians, leaders of religious communities, civil society activists, media figures) who actively framed the traumatic past for specific political goals. Although remembrance of WW2 was one of the main political battlefields where the 2 leading parties (HDZ and SDP) struggled to mobilize supporters, the cultural memory of the more recent Homeland War (1991- 1995) also plays a major role in political rhetoric and rituals. Yet the challenge is to measure the reception of how the past is framed, as well as to analyze to what degree are people’s vision of past conflict shaped by all of the effort put into organizing commemorations, building monuments, holding political speeches, and influencing the media image. As a part of the project “Framing the Nation and Collective Identity in Croatia”, this paper draws upon the material gathered at several commemorations (including video footage of speeches, photographs of monuments, and media coverage) as well as surveys conducted at the University of Rijeka (in cooperation with the Department of Psychology) in order to measure emotional responses to war memorials, from purely aesthetic reactions to those influenced by the reception of political speeches and media coverage. With the aim to see the correlation of the commemoration rituals, political framing and the emotive response, we conducted the experiment with participants from University of Rijeka collecting the features of the affective appraisal of commemoration monuments from Bleiburg, Sisak, Jasenovac, Srb, Knin in two settings: a) visual data of monuments with induced political context via texts and multimedia gathered from the commemoration rituals and b) visual data of monuments without induced context. The measurement of the induced response and the correlation with specific activation of affect via exposure to the media representation of the rituals and political framing was based on the subjective questionnaire with Likert scale.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Povijest

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