Your browser does not allow JavaScript!
JavaScript is necessary for the proper functioning of this website. Please enable JavaScript or use a modern browser.
Open Science Slovenia
Open Science
DiKUL
slv
|
eng
Search
Browse
New in RUL
About RUL
In numbers
Help
Sign in
‘The primitive accumulation of capital and memory’ : mnemonic wars as national reconciliation discourse in (post-)Yugoslavia
ID
Kirn, Gal
(
Author
)
PDF - Presentation file,
Download
(135,28 KB)
MD5: 0A49D972CB60261D56DA6AEC572F406C
URL - Source URL, Visit
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17506980221133724
Image galllery
Abstract
The article elaborates on Marx’s concept of the so-called primitive accumulation of capital by extending it to the field of memory and introducing a new concept of the ‘primitive accumulation of memory’. The article argues that this concept gives us an innovative path to understand the relationship between memory and capital. To arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the break-up of Yugoslavia and its thoroughly revised memoryscape, this text combines a politicoeconomic analysis with the evaluation of memory-related ideological shifts that are in fact perceived as long-term mnemonic wars in (post-)Yugoslavia. The article analyses how nationalism and memory revisionism are internally linked to capitalist accumulation. More specifically, the article will observe how an ethnocentric mnemonic war sought to openly negate the socialist and anti-fascist past. Indeed, the creation of an anti-communist, and at times anti-antifascist, orientation was integral to the imagining of new nation-states. Juxtaposed to this creative and generative current of memory revisionism, the primitive accumulation of capital in post-Yugoslavia began with the ‘deaccumulation’ of social infrastructure and wealth, and with the dispossession of working people. The bigger the dispossession, the larger the nationalist accumulation of memory and displacement of class antagonism. Finally, the article discusses what at first glance seems to be a pacifying discourse of ‘national reconciliation’, which stoked a thorough revision of the public memory of World War II. This revision reconciled fascist collaborationists and anti-fascist Partisans, and it helped to challenge Yugoslavia’s anti-fascist consensus, while also framing the ethnic wars of the 1990s.
Language:
English
Keywords:
mnemonic war
,
national reconciliation
,
primitive accumulation
,
capital
,
memory
,
facism
,
revisionism
,
Yugoslav wars
,
rehabilitation of 
fascism
Work type:
Article
Typology:
1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:
FF - Faculty of Arts
Publication status:
Published
Publication version:
Version of Record
Year:
2022
Number of pages:
Str. 1470-1483
Numbering:
Vol. 15, iss. 6
PID:
20.500.12556/RUL-147078
UDC:
316.7:94(497.1+497.4)
ISSN on article:
1750-6980
DOI:
10.1177/17506980221133724
COBISS.SI-ID:
132050435
Publication date in RUL:
22.06.2023
Views:
377
Downloads:
51
Metadata:
Cite this work
Plain text
BibTeX
EndNote XML
EndNote/Refer
RIS
ABNT
ACM Ref
AMA
APA
Chicago 17th Author-Date
Harvard
IEEE
ISO 690
MLA
Vancouver
:
Copy citation
Share:
Record is a part of a journal
Title:
Memory studies
Publisher:
SAGE
ISSN:
1750-6980
COBISS.SI-ID:
514930457
Licences
License:
CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Link:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Description:
A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Secondary language
Language:
Slovenian
Keywords:
spomin
,
kolektivni spomin
,
jugoslovanske vojne
,
postsocializem
,
narodna sprava
,
nacionalizem
,
fašizem
,
revizionizem
,
kapitalizem
Projects
Funder:
ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:
J6-3144
Name:
Protesti, umetniške prakse in kultura spomina v postjugoslovanskem kontekstu
Funder:
Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Funding programme:
Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
Project number:
21-PR2-0015
Name:
Distrusting Monuments. War and Art in Former Yugoslavia
Similar documents
Similar works from RUL:
Similar works from other Slovenian collections:
Back