Croatian Interwar Memory Culture and Disabled War Veterans
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https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2021.112Abstract
In the contemporary international scientific community as a research field and subject area cultural memory related to the 1st WW is extensively problematized and studied by social sciences and humanities. Based on the available surveyed scholarly production, it is evident that Croatian 1st WW cultural memory is under researched subject. This paper therefore presents preliminary findings of conducted qualitative sociological research on the Post-WW I cultural memory development in Croatia in the interwar period. The research provides an insight into how Croatian post-war cultural memory was (de)constructed by its disabled war veterans inside newly formed multiethnic state of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), and to what extent it was connected to national and ethnical. Developed by Croatian disabled war veterans, their discourse and discursive practices are analyzed in selected newspapers (Nezavisnost, Hrvatski invalid, Ratni invalid, Vojni invalid) published in the period 1920 – 1924. Applied post-modernist sociological fallibilistic analytic strategy of Foucauldian discourse analysis methodology and Foucault’s understanding of modernist societies framed inside language appropriations of particular discourses developed by certain populations along with power relations prevailing in established discursive practices is used to explain research findings in the overall framework of what Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s calls ‘culture of defeat’. The research concludes that difficult post-war political, social and economic circumstances have profoundly shaped the way in which the 1st WW collective memory was (de)constructed by post-war disabled veterans in Croatia and subsequently induced collective amnesia thus helping to create culture of forgetting.
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Croatian interwar memory culture, disabled war veterans’ discourse and discursive practices, culture of defeat, ethnic, national
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2023-09-05
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Cvikić, S., & Dobrovšak, L. (2023). Croatian Interwar Memory Culture and Disabled War Veterans. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 66(1), 193–211. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2021.112
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