Thursday, June 27, 2013
A1.18C (Oudemanhuispoort)
The paper discuses the ways in which memory of the Second World War, as a foundational moment of Slovenian nationhood and simultaneously a point of division of Slovenian nation, is being negotiated in Slovenia after country's independence in 1991 and EU accession in 2004. Through the analysis of political discourses which commemorate important events from Slovenian recent history, the paper highlights mechanisms of the national essence making in the independent Slovenia and ways in which it deals with obstacles posed by ideological and historical divisions in the Slovenian society based on the opposed roles (partisans vs. domobrans) in the WW2.
