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This book focuses on managing competing memories of disputed territories in Eastern and Central Europe, the Caucasus and South Asia. Through an empirical, practice-oriented approach it explores memory work undertaken by institutions and social actors in different cultural and national settings. The book identifies examples of agonistic engagement with the memory of disputed territories that have the potential to build trust-based relationships between divided communities and overcome antagonistic separation through mutually beneficial joint enterprises. The volume also highlights blind spots and shortcomings of the agonistic approach by focusing on socio-political conditions that might hinder or prevent the broader dissemination of this memory mode.
Christina Horvath, Ph.D. (2003), is a Reader of French Politics at the University of Bath. She widely published on cities, urban marginality and memory, including
Breaking the Dead Silence: Engaging with the Legacies of Slave Ownership in Bath and Bristol (2024).
Tomasz Rawski, Ph.D. (2018), is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. He is a political and cultural sociologist. He has published on memory politics, nationalism, war and state socialism in contemporary Eastern Europe and beyond.
Tomasz Rawski, Ph.D. (2018), is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw. He is a political and cultural sociologist. He has published on memory politics, nationalism, war and state socialism in contemporary Eastern Europe and beyond.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Pathways to Agonism: Memory Practices in Disputed Territories
Christina Horvath and Tomasz Rawski
1 Performance and Peacebuilding, between Consensus and Agonism: The Sejny Chronicles and Moush, Sweet Moush
David Clarke, Weronika Czyżewska-Poncyljusz and Nina Parish
2 Participatory Walking as an Alternative Heritage Practice in Two UNESCO World Heritage Cities: Bath and Lahore
Christina Horvath and Mudassir Farooqi
3 Reinforcers and Challengers: War-Related Street Art in Contemporary Poland and Armenia
Tomasz Rawski and Nelly Manucharyan
4 Liminal Spaces of Memory and Remembrance: Realignment of Agonistic Interpretations at Sites of Complex Histories in Sarajevo
Selma Ćatović Hughes and Sabina Tanović
5 Culture of Remembrance and the Use of the Repertory Grid Technique (RGT): Preparing for a Design Approach
Thomas Duschlbauer
6 Curating Mnemonic Security: Museum Responses to War in Armenia and Poland
Joanna Wawrzyniak and Ruzanna Tsaturyan
7 Military Museums in Postcolonial Countries: Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas and the Army Museum in Lahore
Agnieszka Nowakowska and Umber bin Ibad
8 Commemorative Practices and Memorial Sites: The Armenian Genocide Memorial
Harutyun Marutyan
9 The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: from War to Postwar Memory Politics
Arsen Hakobyan
10 The Memory of Neighbours: Lithuania and Poland in School Textbooks of Both Countries
Tomasz Błaszczak, Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Rūstis Kamuntavičius and Agnieszka Nowakowska
11 Burgenland: Agonistic Memory in an Acknowledged Multicultural Borderland?
Melinda Harlov-Csortán
12 Translating the International to the Local: the Case of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Poland and Armenia
Sophie Whiting and Ruzanna Tsaturyan
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
Pathways to Agonism: Memory Practices in Disputed Territories
Christina Horvath and Tomasz Rawski
part 1: Pathways to Agonism
1 Performance and Peacebuilding, between Consensus and Agonism: The Sejny Chronicles and Moush, Sweet Moush
David Clarke, Weronika Czyżewska-Poncyljusz and Nina Parish
2 Participatory Walking as an Alternative Heritage Practice in Two UNESCO World Heritage Cities: Bath and Lahore
Christina Horvath and Mudassir Farooqi
3 Reinforcers and Challengers: War-Related Street Art in Contemporary Poland and Armenia
Tomasz Rawski and Nelly Manucharyan
4 Liminal Spaces of Memory and Remembrance: Realignment of Agonistic Interpretations at Sites of Complex Histories in Sarajevo
Selma Ćatović Hughes and Sabina Tanović
5 Culture of Remembrance and the Use of the Repertory Grid Technique (RGT): Preparing for a Design Approach
Thomas Duschlbauer
part 2: Mnemonic Responses to Wars
6 Curating Mnemonic Security: Museum Responses to War in Armenia and Poland
Joanna Wawrzyniak and Ruzanna Tsaturyan
7 Military Museums in Postcolonial Countries: Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas and the Army Museum in Lahore
Agnieszka Nowakowska and Umber bin Ibad
8 Commemorative Practices and Memorial Sites: The Armenian Genocide Memorial
Harutyun Marutyan
9 The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: from War to Postwar Memory Politics
Arsen Hakobyan
part 3: International Pressures and Local Memoryscapes
10 The Memory of Neighbours: Lithuania and Poland in School Textbooks of Both Countries
Tomasz Błaszczak, Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper, Rūstis Kamuntavičius and Agnieszka Nowakowska
11 Burgenland: Agonistic Memory in an Acknowledged Multicultural Borderland?
Melinda Harlov-Csortán
12 Translating the International to the Local: the Case of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Poland and Armenia
Sophie Whiting and Ruzanna Tsaturyan
Index
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