1st Edition

Media and Past Conflict in Europe Dynamics of Mediation and Power

Edited By Eugenia Siapera, Anke Fiedler, Kenneth Andresen Copyright 2026
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on how the history of past conflicts is mediated in the present and recent past in six European countries, this book explores media processes as they intersect with power dynamics and hegemonic narratives of history and historical memory.   The analysis centers around six countries that have experienced past conflict and traumatic past histories–Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus,... Read more

1. Mediation of Memories of Past Conflict

2. Dealing with Troubled History: How Journalists in History Newsbeat Reconstruct the Past in Media Productions Today

3. Journalism and War Heritage: Representation of the Past in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina

4. Regimes of Historicity of the Cyprus Conflict in Media Discourses

5. Remembering the Horror: National Socialism and the Holocaust in the Discourse of Germany’s Leading News Magazine Der Spiegel

6. The Missing Link: Assessing the Role of the Greek News Media in Shaping and Orienting Collective Memory and Discussion on the Greek Civil War

7. Media Conflict Memory in Ireland: Dislocation, Fracture, and a Public Path Forward

8. Epilogue

 

Index

Biography

Eugenia Siapera is Professor of Digital Technology Policy and Society at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Anke Fiedler is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Greifswald, Germany.

Kenneth Andresen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Agder, Norway.