Flooded with memories: Emergence and development of the “memory boom”

pages: 91-105

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the development of the recent wave of interest in memory and the past in general (so-called “memory boom”), as well as the overall cultural climate that encouraged this “invasion” of the past in both public and scientific discourses. While the first wave of memory boom was supposed to legitimate the emerging nation-states, the second boom signified the exhaustion of the old paradigm of nationalism, decline of the nation-state, as well as the emergence of a new paradigm: globalization. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179049: Politike društvenog pamćenja i nacionalnog identiteta - regionalni i evropski kontekst] Keywords: globalization of memory, memory boom, memory, memory studies, politics of memory