Memory relations: cross-border collaboration between mnemonic actors in Germany, Central Eastern Europe, and the MENA region

Sara Jones

Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, 2020, vol. N° 2-3, issue 2, 225-259

Abstract: This article explores the cross-border collaborations of two German institutions focused on memory of communist repression. It combines quantitative network analysis with qualitative narrative research. The article demonstrates how networks created by the two institutions are divided into ?memory regions? and shows the structurally influential position of (Western) German actors. The institutions construct an apparently subaltern ?Eastern? region in their engagement within Europe. In contrast, in co-operations with actors in the MENA region, they narrate themselves as the agents of a progressive ?Western? mode of memory, from which the non-European partners should learn. This suggests that cross-border co-operations can be used to perpetuate unequal power structures in global memory activism.

Keywords: transnational memory; Germany; Central and Eastern Europe; MENA; network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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