Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

Authors: Light, D., Creţan, R. and Dunca, A.M.

Journal: Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea

Volume: 19

Issue: 4

Pages: 565-584

eISSN: 1743-9639

ISSN: 1468-3857

DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2019.1702619

Abstract:

This paper examines the role of education within post-communist transitional justice. It focuses on the ways in which young Romanians negotiate the communist past during an educational visit to a memorial museum. The museum enabled these visitors to better understand the repression of the communist era, had limited impact in changing their attitudes towards communism, but it did provoke reflection upon and comparison between the present and the communist past. Visitors recognized the role of the museum as a site of memory within post-communist transitional justice, but were also critically aware of the limitations to what the museum could achieve. The implications of these findings for post-communist transitional justice are examined.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33193/

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Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

Authors: Light, D., Cretan, R. and Dunca, A.-M.

Journal: SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN AND BLACK SEA STUDIES

Volume: 19

Issue: 4

Pages: 565-584

eISSN: 1743-9639

ISSN: 1468-3857

DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2019.1702619

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33193/

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Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

Authors: Light, D., Cretan, R. and Dunca, A.-M.

Journal: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

Volume: 19

Issue: 4

Pages: 565-584

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISSN: 1468-3857

Abstract:

This paper examines the role of education within post-communist transitional justice. It focuses on the ways in which young Romanians negotiate the communist past during an educational visit to a memorial museum. The museum enabled these visitors to better understand the repression of the communist era, had limited impact in changing their attitudes towards communism, but it did provoke reflection upon and comparison between the present and the communist past. Visitors recognized the role of the museum as a site of memory within post-communist transitional justice, but were also critically aware of the limitations to what the museum could achieve. The implications of these findings for postcommunist transitional justice are examined.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33193/

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Education and post-communist transitional justice: negotiating the communist past in a memorial museum

Authors: Light, D., Cretan, R. and Dunca, A.-M.

Journal: Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

Volume: 19

Issue: 4

Pages: 565-584

ISSN: 1468-3857

Abstract:

This paper examines the role of education within post-communist transitional justice. It focuses on the ways in which young Romanians negotiate the communist past during an educational visit to a memorial museum. The museum enabled these visitors to better understand the repression of the communist era, had limited impact in changing their attitudes towards communism, but it did provoke reflection upon and comparison between the present and the communist past. Visitors recognized the role of the museum as a site of memory within post-communist transitional justice, but were also critically aware of the limitations to what the museum could achieve. The implications of these findings for postcommunist transitional justice are examined.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33193/

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