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Nicolae Ceausescu: between Vernacular Memory and Nostalgia

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F16%3A10327104" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/16:10327104 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/tcc11_03asavei.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/tcc11_03asavei.pdf</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Nicolae Ceausescu: between Vernacular Memory and Nostalgia

  • Original language description

    The hierarchical ranking of history, memory and nostalgia classifies the ubiquitous enactments of Nicolae Ceauşescu from the vernacular memory of post-communist Romania as "unhealthy nostalgia" for the communist past. This paper explores various instances of Ceauşescu's memorialization as reflected in contemporary art and living memorials inked on the skin (nostalgia tattoos). These vernacular memorials and commemorations of the former communist leader occasion a peculiar culture of remembrance where "nostalgia" for Ceauşescu exceeds its boundaries of meaning and becomes a term which can be mobilized against present wrongdoings and capitalist injustices. From an epistemological narrative standpoint, this paper attempts to argue that to construct a harmonious but counterfeit picture of the past (in which Nicolae Ceauşescu and his era are exclusively demonized) is not desirable or acceptable because the individuals (and the communities) who remember that past are not homogeneous and their memories and longings for the past are not similar. Thus, nostalgia ought not to be understood exclusively as an abnormal (unauthentic, unhealthy) memory of the past but rather as a peculiar form of memory illuminating a healthy critique of the present in the light of the past.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Twentieth Century Communism : A Journal of International History

  • ISSN

    1758-6437

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    Neuveden

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    11

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    16

  • Pages from-to

    27-42

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database