"Češi si vždy vybrali správnou stranu.“ Rodinné generační vzpomínání krajanů v Chorvatsku a státní politika paměti

• Authors: Michal Pavlásek

Title variants

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“The Czechs always chose the right side.” Family generational remembering of expatriates in Croatia, and the state politics of memory

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The Croatian society is still coping with traumatizing events (World War II and civil war) and memories of them. The politics of memory, articulated by Tudjman´s strategy of generational and memory reconciliation of the society in the early 1990s, led to the relativization and even promotion of the pro-fascist Ustashe regime, and simultaneously to the marginalization and stigmatization of narratives relating to the role of national liberation struggle within multi-ethnic partisan movement. This also included members of local Czech minority. The study shows how - despite this - the narratives concerning the partisan resistance are still alive in family memory, and they form, through generational transmission, a value alternative to the contemporary nationally-oriented state ideology as well as to the cultural presentation of Czech minority. Family memory works as an autonomous ”intimate space/area” of expatriates in Croatia, which is based on searching for a generational value continuities in the period of post-communist social uncertainties.

Keywords

EN

Croatia; expatriates; politics of memory; family memory; generation; partisan resistance; nationalism

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 35_(77)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 29-52
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michal Pavlásek

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic