Limits of Universalization: The European Memory Sites of Genocide
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The twentieth century became known as the era of genocides.However, historians do not yet agree on the use of the categoryof genocide for all mass killings in the twentieth century and stillare debating their place in European civilization. My articlefocuses on the European lieux de mémoire of the genocides withinthe associative framework of the fundamental question about thematerial evidence of crime. This framework helps highlight thelimits of universalization in European memory politics. Inunderstanding them as a dynamically developing socialphenomenon, this article analyses it in two dimensions: theemergence of the memory of the Holocaust as an archetype ofgenocide, and the crimes of Communism as a rival memoryframework in Eastern Europe. In closing, I will return to theincessant search for the material evidence of genocide. This articlechallenges the general concept of the European lieux de mémoireof the genocide from this point of view as well.
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20(4)
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490-509
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Limits of Universalization: The European Memory Sites of Genocide. 2018: 490-509. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/14623528.2018.1522825
