{"id":35869,"date":"2023-05-26T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=35869"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:25:22","slug":"the-past-is-now-politics-of-denial-and-dealing-with-the-past-in-the-western-balkans-perspectives-no-10-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=35869","title":{"rendered":"The Past is now: Politics of Denial and Dealing with the Past in the Western Balkans (Perspectives No. 10, May 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Belgrade and Sarajevo offices of the Heinrich B\u00f6ll Foundation, together with our editor Milo\u0161 \u0106iri\u0107, have invited relevant voices to reflect on what was achieved over the past decades in the fields of documentation, memorialization, and processing of recent history. We wanted to learn which actors and factors determine the cultural context, who could deconstruct the hate narratives, how nationalism affects the culture of remembrance in the respective societies, and why the most brutal of experiences did not lead to a better understanding of common history in the region. In this volume, the role of the external actors is also critically questioned: what were Western donors able to achieve? Why has dealing with history never become mainstream despite the efforts of many brave, consistent and professional individuals? Is there even a need for a moratorium on dealing with the past so that new spaces for peaceful coexistence can emerge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Date of Publication: 24.05.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher: Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung Sarajevo, Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung Belgrade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Number of Pages: 78<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Language of publication: English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 unclosed chapters of the past<br>Nino Lejava<br>3 facing the past in the post-Yugoslav space<br>Tamara \u0160midling<br>9 the past is still someone\u2019s present<br>Vildana Selimbegovi\u0107<br>14 why the facts matter<br>Bekim Blakaj<br>17 Serbia: nationalism without alternative and politics of memory without self-reflection<br>Milivoj Be\u0161lin<br>20 Bosnia and Herzegovina: three decades of facing the past<br>Lejla Ga\u010danica<br>23 Croatia: facts about the past in the shadow of victorious narratives<br>Branka Vierda<br>26 Kosovo: wartime memories challenged by the courts<br>Una Hajdari<br>29 Montenegro: is there anything to remember at all?<br>Milo\u0161 Vukanovi\u0107<br>33 North Macedonia: amnesty and silence around the 2001 insurgency<br>Prof. dr Irena Stefoska<br>36 towards politics of hope: an interview with Orli Fridman<br>Milo\u0161 \u0106iri\u0107<br>40 the case of Prijedor: struggle for victims\u2019 recognition<br>Edin Ramuli\u0107<br>43 decades of women-led initiatives for peace<br>Marijana Stoj\u010di\u0107<br>46 the media: from tools of war to vehicles of denial<br>Dinko Gruhonji\u0107<br>50 efforts to deconstruct the hateful narratives<br>Aleksandra Bosni\u0107 \u0110uri\u0107<br>53 the war in the classrooms<br>Sr\u0111an Milo\u0161evi\u0107, Aleksandar R. Mileti\u0107<br>56 imposition of legal standards and their sustainability<br>Selma Korjeni\u0107, Ajna Mahmi\u0107<br>59 a critique of western-funded memorialization initiatives in the Balkans<br>Jasmin Mujanovi\u0107<br>62 the clash of the myths<br>Mirko Medenica<br>66 on populism and historical revisionism<br>Thomas Schad<br>70 the future without remembrance<br>Dragan Markovina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PDF:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ba.boell.org\/en\/2023\/05\/24\/perspectives-past-now\">https:\/\/ba.boell.org\/en\/2023\/05\/24\/perspectives-past-now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neopopulismus: Revisionismus und Meta-Katastrophe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ba.boell.org\/en\/2023\/05\/24\/perspectives-past-now\" target=\"_blank\">Perspectives Southeastern Europe<\/a><\/strong> is a publication series of the Southeastern Europe offices of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ba.boell.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Heinrich B\u00f6ll Stiftung<\/a>. The focus is on Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the foundation has established offices. The new volume titeld <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ba.boell.org\/en\/2023\/05\/24\/perspectives-past-now\" target=\"_blank\">The Past is now \u2013 Politics of Denial and Dealing with the Past in the Western Balkans<\/a><\/strong> was just published today and is now online available. I had the opportunity to contribute with an essay <strong>On populism and historical revisionism \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0at once a (very) brief evaluation of the Public History project <strong>Histoire pour la libert\u00e9<\/strong> from 2021, coordinated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/\">KROKODIL Belgrade<\/a>, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kliofest.hr\/\">Kliofest Zagreb<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/umhis.ba\/\">UMHIS Sarajevo<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/umhis.ba\/history-fest\/\">History Fest Sarajevo<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de\/de\/bereiche-und-lehrstuehle\/gesuedosteu\">Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin<\/a>, and others.&#8221; <strong>(Thomas Schad)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-neopopulismus\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kAwfvx9KRt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neopopulismus.de\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/the-past-is-now-politics-of-denial-and-dealing-with-the-past-in-the-western-balkans-perspectives-no-10-may-2023\/\">The Past is now \u2013 Politics of Denial and Dealing with the Past in the Western Balkans (Perspectives No. 10, May 2023)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8222;The Past is now \u2013 Politics of Denial and Dealing with the Past in the Western Balkans (Perspectives No. 10, May 2023)&#8220; &#8212; Neopopulismus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neopopulismus.de\/index.php\/2023\/05\/25\/the-past-is-now-politics-of-denial-and-dealing-with-the-past-in-the-western-balkans-perspectives-no-10-may-2023\/embed\/#?secret=omg3j7KHO8#?secret=kAwfvx9KRt\" data-secret=\"kAwfvx9KRt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Perspectives.jpg?fit=608%2C855&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52641,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52641","url_meta":{"origin":35869,"position":0},"title":"CfP: WHO OWNS THE PAST? 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