Publications

In its 31st volume (issue 3, 2017), 'East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures' features a special section on the Genealogies of Memory. Its guest editors are Ferenc Laczó and Joanna Wawrzyniak.

Articles included in the special section:

Memories of 1989 in Europe between Hope, Dismay, and Neglect - Ferenc Laczó, Joanna Wawrzyniak

1939 versus 1989—A Missed Opportunity to Create a European Lieu de Mémoire? - Aline Sierp

1989 in European Vernacular Memory - Lars Breuer, Anna Delius

A Tale of Two Revolutions: Hungary's 1956 and the Un-doing of 1989 - Victoria Harms

The "Children of Crisis": Making Sense of (Post)socialism and the End of Yugoslavia - Ljubica Spaskovska

The book was published as a result of the first editions of the "Genealogies of Memory" project, organised by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and coordinated by the editors of the volume, Małgorzata Pakier and Joanna Wawrzyniak.

In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region's experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.

Published in 2015 by Berghahn Books.

Issue 3(183)/2013 of Polish Sociological Review is composed of the articles presented during the first edition of the ‘Genealogies of Memory’ conference organised by the ENRS. Starting from the growing interest in social memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the authors aim at discussing possible theoretical approaches to social remembrance. The texts also pose questions of a possible use of the ‘region’ as a theoretical framework for inquiries about the divergent ways of forgetting and remembering in Central and Eastern European societies.

Published by Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne [Polish Sociological Association]