Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Climescu, Alexandru
Year: 2013
Title: Mapping Public Memory. Counterpublics, the State and the Holocaust in Romania
Journal: Holocaust. Studii şi cercetări
Issue: 6
Pages: 74-86
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, political science, recollection, public opinion, holocaust
Abstract: (En) This study explores the concept of public memory by resorting to the private-public dichotomy as an analytical framework of political theory. Based on empirical evidence regarding the recollection of the Holocaust in Romania, it highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the public-private separation, as conceived by the liberal and public sphere models,with regard to the analysis of competing accounts of the past. Furthermore, drawing on subsequent critiques of the habermasian theory of public sphere, this study discusses the memory work of marginalized publics and their counterdiscourses to the official Holocaust memory.