1st Edition

European Memory in Populism Representations of Self and Other

Edited By Chiara De Cesari, Ayhan Kaya Copyright 2020
320 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and populism in contemporary Europe. Focusing on circulating ideas of memory, especially European memory, in contemporary populist discourses, the book also analyses populist ideas in sites and practices of remembrance that usually tend to go unnoticed. More broadly, the theoretical heart of the book reflects upon the similarities,... Read more
 

Introduction

Ayhan Kaya and Chiara De Cesari

Chapter 1. (Why) do Eurosceptics believe in a common European heritage?

Chiara De Cesari, Ivo Bosilkov, and Arianna Piacentini

Chapter 2. Anti-totalitarian Monuments in Ljubljana and Brussels: From Nationalist Reconciliation to Open Rehabilitation of Fascism

Gal Kirn

Chapter 3. The Use of the Past in Populist Political Discourse: Justice and Development Party Rule in Turkey

Ayhan Kaya and Ayse Tecmen

Chapter 4. ‘A great bliss to keep the sensation of conquest alive!’: The emotional politics of the Panorama 1453 Museum in Istanbul

Gönül Bozoglu�

Chapter 5. The Mediterranean as a mirror and ghost of the colonial past: The role of cultural memory in the production of populist narratives in Italy

Gabriele Proglio

Chapter 6. Textures of urban fears: the affective geopolitics of the ‘oriental rug’

Luiza Bialasiewicz and Lora Sariaslan

Chapter 7. Social Media and Affective Publics: Populist Passion for Religious Roots

Ernst van den Hemel

Chapter 8. Caring for Some and not Others: Museums and the Politics of Care in Post-Colonial Europe

Markus Balkenhol and Wayne Modest

Chapter 9. European Culture, History, and Heritage as Political Tools in the Rhetoric of the Finns Party

Tuuli Lähdesmäki

Chapter 10. Between appropriation and appropriateness: instrumentalizing dark heritage in populism and memory?

Susannah Eckersley

Chapter 11. Memory Games and Populism in Postcommunist Poland

Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski

Chapter 12. Mizrahi Memory-of and Memory-against "the People:" remembering the 1950s

Hilla Dayan

Final Commentary

Learning from the Past/s? Contesting Hegemonic Memories

Ruth Wodak,

Afterword

Against Populism: Memory for an Age of Transformation

Astrid Erll

Biography



Chiara De Cesari is an anthropologist and senior lecturer, with a double appointment in European studies and in cultural studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.



Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University; Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence; and a member of the Science Academy, Turkey.