The Mnemonic Warriors of the European Far Right is a comparative analysis of the politics and policy of memory as seen through the conceptual lens of Pierre Noras lieux de mémoire. More specifically, the research in this volume is carried out through the prism of national-populist and conservative-sovereignist narratives in the Western, Central, and Eastern European public sphere. The overall aim of this book is to examine how the European populist far right, both the governing elites and those operating on the fringes of mainstream politics, has adopted the instrumentalization of 20th-century authoritarian and totalitarian lieux de mémoire to boost their political legitimacy. The contributors to this volume explore critically the interplay between politics and collective memory, the role of historical myths in shaping collective consciousness, and the manipulation mechanisms of political communication aimed at monopolizing the real memory of the past. They explore how different and sometimes mutually exclusive narratives about places of memory interact in the public sphere of societies that have experienced non-democratic regimes in their history. This volume will be of interest to researchers of European history and politics, the far right, populism, and memory studies.
Introduction Part 1: Memory Politics, Cultures and Laws
1. The Slow
Transformation of a Marginal Problem into a Significant Challenge: Right-wing
Historical Revisionism in Germany since the 1990s
2. Political Transitions
and Memory Wars in Italy from the 1990s to the Present: The Challenge of the
Right-wing
3. Politics, Policies and Contested Legacies in Spain
4. Vichy. A
Broken Memory of an Ambiguous Past: Contemporary Rhetorical Issues
5. In
Search of an Ideology to Legitimize the Power of Contemporary Russia
6. The
Prohibition of Negationism in Poland (Article 55 of the Act on the Institute
of National Remembrance) and Questioning the Criminal Legacy of Totalitarian
Systems
7. The Memory Politics of Communism in the Discourse of the Hungarian
Right after 1989 Part 2: Memory Narratives
8. Russian Society and Official
Heroic Narratives about World War II
9. The Trauma of Trianon in the Past and
the Present - Nostalgia in the Service of Politics
10. The Revolt of the
Mnemonic Warriors: Mnemonic Constitutionalism, Mnemocracy, and Making
Contested Legacy a True Story by Law and Justice (PiS)
11. Anti-Communism as
a Legitimising Element in the Political Narrative of the National Rebirth of
Poland
12. Learning to Mobilize Memory in the Service of Illiberalism: Poland
and Hungary Serve as Models for the Slovenian Far Right
13. How has the
Reappearance of an Extreme Right Political Party in Spain affected the Memory
of the Holocaust and Francoism?
14. Dangerous Victims? Teaching Nationalist
Youth about the Holocaust. Challenges and Strategies in Poland Part 3:
Contested lieux de mémoire
15. Reviving the Memory of Salazar? The Legacy of
the Estado Novo in Contemporary Portugal
16. The Past That Does Not Want to
Pass Away? A Few Remarks on the Debate Surrounding the Project to Establish a
Museum of Fascism in Predappio
17. Difficult Heritage. The Case of German
Urban Heritage in Polish Cities
Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas is Associate Professor of Contemporary History. She teaches at the Institute of History, Anthropology, Religions, Art History, Media, and Performing Arts at the Sapienza University of Rome and at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her previous publications include The Right-Wing Critique of Europe: Nationalist, Sovereignist, and Right-Wing Populist Attitudes to the EU (Routledge 2022, edited with Francesco Berti).
Grzegorz Poarlik is Assistant Professor and a former deputy director of the Jagiellonian University Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. His current research pursues critical exploration of border governance insecuritization as well as far-right symbolic construction of memory politics in Central Europe.
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