Since 2010, the public memory of the working class has become more conflicted. The notion that âtheyâ are reactionary bigots has been strengthened by the result of the Brexit referendum of 2016. Most journalists overlook that many affluent residents of southern, rural England, voted to leave the European Union. They focus their ire on the deindustrialised areas of northern England â constituencies which also helped give Boris Johnsonâs Conservative Party a landslide win in the 2019 General Election.
Siobhan Kattago, PhD, New School for Social Research of the University of Tartu Cover picture: People queue in front of the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square, in the background St. Basilâs Cathedral and Kremlin. March 1925 | Bundesarchiv via Wikimedia Deutschland âLenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live!â Vladimir Mayakovsky Much has changed since the …
Aleksandar Jakir, University of Split, Croatia, Department of History Cover picture: Monument to the Revolution (1967), World War II memorial in PodgariÄ, Croatia, one of DĆŸamonjaâs best-known works | Plamen at Serbian Wikipedia In all modern societies, monuments play an important role in the process of construction of the historical or collective memory. During the …
Orli Fridman, Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK) & School for International Training (SIT) In these times of new media ecologies and hyperconnectivity, hashtags have become an integral part of our everyday communication. The hashtag symbol (#) is often used as a way of marking a conversation on social media platforms. Hashtags can function like …
Celeste Muñoz MartĂnez, Lecturer in the History of Africa, University of Barcelona Cover picture: View of the room Rituals and Ceremonies, MusĂ©e royal de lâAfrique centrale | © MRAC, Tervuren, photo Jo Van de Vijver In 2006, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair caught the world by surprise when he issued an unprecedented apology for …
Montse Morcate , PhD, artist, researcher and lecturer of photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona Cover picture: Christian Boltanski. RĂ©serve des Suisses Morts, 1991 The contemporary photographic art project has incontrovertible value as a tool for transmitting and reflecting on historical memory and genocide. In this respect, teaching in …
Picture: Horst Hoheisel, Die Tore der Deutschen, 1997, lighting display on the Brandenburg Gate. By Horst Hoheisel, Artist Aleida Assmann, who will be awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade together with her husband Jan Assmann this year (14 October 2018), has chosen one of my works (1) as the title image for …
All images by Ana MiloĆĄeviÄ By Ana MiloĆĄeviÄ, a researcher at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences and the LINES Institute (Leuven International and European Studies). In 2014, the Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg won a competition for a memorial to the victims of the UtĂžya …
Picture: Detail of the penitentiary file of Celestino GarcĂa Moreno, peasant of Morata de Tajuña, shot on June 14, 1939, in the walls of the East Madrid cemetery | quieneseran.blogspot By Fernando HernĂĄndez Holgado, associate professor at the Department of Contemporary History of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid A historical note Madrid was one …
Stefanie Endlich Honorary Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Berlin University of the Arts (UniversitĂ€t der KĂŒnste Berlin) Cover picture: Imperial Eagle with Swastica at the âFĂŒhrerâs Buildingâ in Munich; picture taken in the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism (picture: Stefanie Endlich  Right after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, …
