Framing the Nation and Collective Identities

Vjeran Pavlaković is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He received his PhD in history in 2005 from the University of Washington and has published articles on cultural memory, transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia and the Spanish Civil War. His recent publications include Yugoslav Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (2016) and "Monumental Narratives: Memorials and Memory Politics of the Croatian Homeland War" in In Memoriam Republika Hrvatska (2017). He is also the lead researcher on the project Framing the Nation and Collective Identity in Croatia: Political Rituals and the Cultural Memory of Twentieth Century Traumas funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. Davor Pauković is Associate Professor in the Department of Mass Communication at the University of Dubrovnik, Croatia. He received his PhD in contemporary history in 2010 from the University of Zagreb. He teaches courses in contemporary Croatian and world history. He has published five edited volumes and a dozen articles on political transition in Croatia, dealing with the past, dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Serb minority in Croatia and Serbo-Croatian relations. He is currently editor in chief of the international journal Contemporary Issues and a researcher on the project Framing the Nation and Collective Identity in Croatia: Political Rituals and the Cultural Memory of Twentieth Century Traumas funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. His recent publications include Croatia and the European Union: Changes and Development (2016).

Framing the Nation: An Introduction to Commemorative Culture in Croatia Part 1: Socio-Cultural, Philosophical and Linguistic Approaches to Croatia's Commemorative Culture 1. Sociocultural and Ideological Determinants of Memory Culture in Croatian Society 2. A Contemporary Philosophical Perspective on Cultural Memory in Croatia 3. An Ontological and Constructional Approach to the Discourse Analysis of the Commemorative Speeches in Croatia Part 2: The Second World War Commemorations: Contested Sites of the Shared Past? 4. Framing the Narrative About Communist Crimes in Croatia: Bleiburg and Jazovka 5. Contested Sites and Fragmented Narratives: Jasenovac and Disruptions in Croatia’s Commemorative Culture Part 3: The Homeland War Commemorations 6. Heroes at the Margins: Veterans, Elites and the Narrative of War 7. Ambassadors of Memory: "Honouring the Homeland War" in Croatian Sport 8. Remembering the Hague: The Impact of International Criminal Justice on Memory Practices in Croatia 9. Filling Voids with Memories: Commemorative Rituals and Memorial Landscape in Post-War Vukovar Part 4: Transnational Dimensions of Memory 10. Homeland Celebrations Far Away from Home: The Case of the Croatian Diaspora in Argentina 11. European Commemoration of Vukovar: Shared Memory or Joint Remembrance?