How Generations Remember

Monika Palmberger is a Hertha Firnberg Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

• Introduction. Researching Memory and Generation.- Chapter 1. Fragments of Communicative Memory: WWII, Tito and the 1992-95 War.- Chapter 2. Divided Education: Divergent Historiographies and Shared Discursive Strategies.- Chapter 3. Two Wars and Tito In-Between: The First Yugoslavs.- Chapter 4. Ruptured Biographies: The Last Yugoslavs.- Chapter 5. The (Un)spoilt Generation: The Post-Yugoslavs.- Conclusion.

“Palmberger applies methodological creativity to capture people’s narratives on contentious and sensitive topics, while striving to avoid exposure to bias … The result is a robust example of a well-executed qualitative multimethod study.” (Tamara Trošt, Südosteuropa, Vol. 67 (1), March, 2019)