Memory in Transition in Southeast Europe: Generational Change in an Age of Turmoil

This edited collection explores the multifaceted experiences of post-socialist generations in Southeast Europe through the lens of postmemory. At different levels of analysis, the concept of “memory in transition” highlights a historical period where radical changes and transformations are shaping different, non-linear, and often ambiguous narrations of the socialist past and, in some cases, of its violent end. The various chapters examine the reverberations of this memory in people’s lived experience, as well as in politics, education and the urban memoryscape, in the context of geopolitical turmoil and generational change. The volume is a project initiated by the Balkan History Association in mid-summer 2022.

Francesco Trupia is Adjunct at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Democracy Institute of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His research focuses on the intersections of democracy, memory politics and history of ideas in Southeast and Eastern Europe. Over the last ten years, he has also worked as a policy analyst, commentator and practitioner in the field of minority and migration studies.

Jasna Dragović-Soso is Director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Professor of International Politics and History at University College London. Her current research focuses on memory politics and transitional justice in the post-Yugoslav region after the wars of the 1990s.