Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe

Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Photos
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Agonistic Perspectives on the Memory of War: An Introduction
	References
Chapter 2: Agonistic Memory Revisited
	Learning from the UNREST Case Studies: Mass Grave Exhumations
	Learning from the UNREST Case Studies: War Museums
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 3: The Production of Memory Modes During Mass Grave Exhumations in Contemporary Europe
	Introduction
	Intertwined Memory Modes in Spanish Exhumations
	Poland’s Memory Modes in Disguise
	Parallel Memory Modes in Contemporary Exhumations in Bosnia
	Concluding Remarks
	References
Chapter 4: Memory Cultures of War in European War Museums
	Introduction
	Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne
	The Kobarid Museum of the First World War
	The German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst
	The Oskar Schindler Factory in Kraków
	The Military History Museum in Dresden
	In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres
	Conclusion
	References
		Interviews
		Websites Consulted
Chapter 5: “Krieg. Macht. Sinn.” An Agonistic Exhibition at the Ruhr Museum Essen
	Introduction
		The Ruhr Museum
		Exhibition Concept
	Agonistic Game
	Methodology
	Visitors’ Perception of Agonism
	In Lieu of Conclusions. (Self-Critical) Theses on Agonistic Exhibitions
	References
Chapter 6: ‘To Understand Doesn’t Mean that You Will Approve’: Transnational Audience Research on a Theatre Representation of Evil
	Introduction
	Historical Contexts
	Methodology: Interviewing as a Performative Action
		Assembling Responses: Ways of Engaging with Zoran
	Analysis
		Antagonistic Refusal
		Cosmopolitan Universalism
		Agonistic Unsettling of Fixed Identities
			Perpetrator Discourse as Unsettling
			Between Understanding and Justification
			Contesting the Fictional Perpetrator and Proposing Alternatives
	Conclusions: Modes of Interpretation
	References
Chapter 7: Taking Agonism Online: Creating a Mass Open Online Course to Disseminate the Findings of the UNREST Project
	Introduction
	What Is a MOOC?
	Agonism (and Antagonism) Online
	Designing ‘How We Remember War and Violence: Theory and Practice’
	Evaluating Learner Responses
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Agonism and Memory
	Introduction
	The Origins of Agonistic Memory in Memory Studies
	The Origins of Agonistic Memory in Political Philosophy
	The Experience of UNREST with Agonistic Memory
	Agonistic Memory Amidst Re-nationalization and De-cosmopolitization
	References
Index