Memory in Transition Southeast Europe: Generational Change an Age of Turmoil: 23

Situated at a time of geopolitical turmoil, this volume illuminates the multiple “transmissions of memory” of socialism that in Southeast Europe have led to historical revisionism and exclusionary interpretations of the past and the impacts of this on the new postsocialist generations. 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.