Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums: Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia (Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict)

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• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyzes how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia. It argues that in all three countries, a reluctance to confront undesirable parts of their national histories is the root cause explaining why the state-funded Second World War memorial museums remain stuck in the postsocialist transition. In most cases, Second World War museums, exhibitions, and displays conceived in the Yugoslav period have been left unchanged. However, there are also examples where new sections were added to the old ones and there are a small number of completely reconceptualized permanent exhibitions. The transitional position of the Second World War museums has made it possible to view these institutions as historical formations in their own right. The book will appeal to students and academics working in the fields of heritage and museums studies, memory studies, and culturalhistory of Southeast-Europe.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Second World War Heritage as (Dis)Integration Tool
Notes
References
Part I Museums of the People’s Liberation Struggle in Yugoslavia (1945–1990)
2 The Yugoslavization of the Museum Sphere
Introduction
Legislation: Developing a Heritage Policy
Collections: Second World War (Arti-)facts
Topics: The Ranking of Historical Events
Conclusion
Notes
References
3 The People’s Liberation Struggle Museum
Introduction
Discourse: Role and Message
Praxis: Image of the Artifact
Theory: Neither East nor West
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II Second World War Memorial Museums in the Yugoslav Successor States (1991–2022)
4 Broken Museality
Introduction
Revision: Raising a Heritage Dissonance
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
War: Second World War Memorial Museums on the Front Lines
Ethnonationalization: (B)ordering Second World War Memories
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
Conclusion
Notes
References
5 Curating (in) Transition
Introduction
Distancing Museum Documents from Their Ideological Links
Second World War History Through the Lens of the Nineties
The Pedagogical Function of “Time Capsule” Exhibitions
Conclusion
Notes
References
6 Exhibitions as Dysfunctional Mosaic Narratives
Introduction
Croatia: The Jasenovac Memorial Museum
Republika Srpska: The Museum of Old Herzegovina
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Museum of the Second AVNOJ Session
Serbia: The Museum “21 October”
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 Conclusion: Transitional Metamuseology
Note
References
Index