Naslov
Jasenovac Concentration Camp, The Independent State of Croatia and Jasenovac: A Contested Past. The Collective Trauma, Historical Interpretations and The Politics of Memory

Autori
Benčić, Andriana

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

Skup
USHMM Fellowship Lecture (moderated by dr. Emil Kerenji, USHMM Applied Research Scholar)

Mjesto i datum
Sjedinjene Američke Države, 15.01.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Jasenovac Concentration Camp, contested past, historical trauma, politics of memory

Sažetak
This presentation addresses a part of my doctoral thesis, and it depends on close examination of Jasenovac, as an aspect of the holocaust history of WWII in Croatia. We will argue that pro-Serbian Yugoslav elites and intellectuals, admittedly aided by a particular constellation of socio-political and socio-economic factors in Yugoslavia at the end of the 1980s, were critical in forging identity narratives in such a way as to allow for harsh identity binaries (among Serb and Croat people). Consequently, we attempt to show how the mythic view of the Independent State of Croatia, and in particular of the concentration camp Jasenovac, was used in creating war propaganda, which then led to fatal consequences and created a brutal wartime conflict in the 1990s.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

Napomena
Predavanje u sklopu istraživačke stipendije u Muzeju holokausta u Washingtonu (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

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