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Mapping Public Memory: Counterpublics, the State and the Holocaust in Romania

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This study explores the concept of public memory by resorting to the private-public dichotomy as an analytical framework of political theory. Based on empirical evidence regarding the recollection of the Holocaust in Romania, it highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the public-private separation, as conceived by the liberal and public sphere models,with regard to the analysis of competing accounts of the past. Furthermore, drawing on subse - quent critiques of the habermasian theory of public sphere, this study discusses the memory work of marginalized publics and their counterdiscourses to the official Holocaust memory.

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5

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74-86

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Link to article (paywalled), Mapping Public Memory: Counterpublics, the State and the Holocaust in Romania

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Climescu, Alexandru Mapping Public Memory: Counterpublics, the State and the Holocaust in Romania. Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări. 2013: 74-86.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-3135