Memory Politics and Populism in Southeastern Europe Southeast European Studies Series

This book explores the politics of memory in Southeastern Europe in the context of rising populisms and their hegemonic grip on official memory and politics.

It speaks to the increased political, media and academic attention paid to the rise of discontent, frustration and cultural resistance from below across the European continent and the world. In order to demonstrate the complexities of these processes, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries to explore memory politics, examining the interconnections between memory and populism. It shows how memory politics has become one of the most important fields of symbolic struggle in the contemporary process of "meaning-making," providing space for actors, movements and other mnemonic entrepreneurs who challenge and point to incoherencies in the official narratives of memory and forgetting.

Charting the contemporary rise of populist movements, the volume will be of particular interest to regional specialists in Southeastern Europe, Balkan and postcommunist studies, as well as researchers, activists, policy-makers and politicians at the national and EU levels and academics in the fields of political science, sociology, history, cultural heritage and management, conflict and peace studies.

Editorial Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: Memory Politics and Populism in Southeastern Europe – Toward an Ethnographic Understanding of Enmity Chapter 2: (Not) Remembering A Populist Event: The Serbian Antibureaucratic Revolution (1988-1989) Chapter 3: The Modernist Abject: Ruins of Socialism, Reconstruction And Populist Politics In Belgrade And Sarajevo Chapter 4: Whose Is Herceg Kosača? Populist Memory Politics of Constructing “Historical People” In Bosnia And Herzegovina Chapter 5: Of (Anti)Fascists And (Anti)Communists: Constructing the People and Its Enemies at The Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar Chapter 6: Populism Versus Working-Class Culture in The Memory Politics of Korčanica Memorial Zone Chapter 7: The "War for Peace": Commemoration of The Bombing of Dubrovnik In Montenegro Chapter 8: Contested Narratives of Bleiburg In the Context of WW II Remembrance in Croatia Chapter 9: Populism, Memory Politics and The Ustaša Movement 1945-2020 Chapter 10: Operation Museum: Memory Politics As "Populist Mobilization" In North Macedonia (2006-2011) Chapter 11: Integration Versus Identity: Memory Politics, Populism and The Good Neighborliness Agreement Between North Macedonia And Bulgaria Chapter 12: Lukov March As A "Template of Possibility" For Historical Revisionism: Memory, History and Populism In Post-1989 Bulgaria

Jody Jensen is the Director of the Polányi Centre at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Kőszeg (iASK). She is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Political Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.