Whose Memory? Which Future?

Barbara Tornquist-Plewa is a professor of Eastern and Central European Studies at Lund University in Sweden. In the years 2005-2017 she was the head of the Centre for European Studies in Lund., 2012-2016 she led the European research network "In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe" financed by the EU's COST-programme. She is the editor and author of a number of books and articles in several languages. The latest one is the anthology: The Twentieth Century in European Memory, Amsterdam 2017, co-edited with Tea Sindbaek Andersen.

• IntroductionBarbara Tornquist-PlewaChapter 1. Wroclaw - Changes in Memory NarrativesIgor Pietraszewski and Barbara Tornquist-PlewaChapter 2. Between Old Animosity and New Mourning - Meanings of Czech Post-Communist Memorials of Mass Killings of the Sudeten GermansTomas SniegonChapter 3. Polishness as a Site of Memory and Arena for Construction of a Multicultural Heritage in L'vivEleonora NarvseliusChapter 4. Memories of Ethnic Diversity in Local Newspapers - the 600th Anniversary of ChernivtsiNiklas Bernsand Chapter 5. Zaratini: Memoriesand Absence of the Italian Community of ZadarTea SindbaekChapter 6. Echo of Silence. Memory, Politics and Heritage in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina, a case study: VisegradDragan Nikolic Chapter 7. Comparative Remarks and ConclusionsBarbara Tornquist-Plewa

"Exploring a new avenue, the study of cultural trauma, Whose Memory? Which Future? provides an original, timely and singularly stimulating contribution to several subfields of memory studies. Owing to its strong comparative dimension, the book will serve as a sound conceptual, methodological and critical springboard for scholars working on post-conflict memory and cultural trauma but also for students of urban heritage management or post-socialist political cultures... Besides the potential benefits for the cultivation of an integrating European memory discourse, the volume's contribution to the comparative study of cultural memory in Europe is thus hard to overstate." Bohemia