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Memory in action – Performative practices in a dispute about the past: Serbia and Croatia at the turn of the 20th and 21st century

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Memory in action – Performative practices in a dispute about the past: Serbia and Croatia at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuryThe article is an attempt to combine in one reflection the elements of two directions of critical thinking: discursive and performative. The starting point of the analysis is the assumption (derived from beliefs common in pre-performative times) that every space (including a city’s territory) can be treated as a text. This means that both static artifacts and activities in a given space communicate a certain message and can be seen as signs or symbols that refer to something outside of them. Our reflection focuses on practices in which the performative potential is fully revealed and which can be interpreted as a kind of rebellion against the present reality and official policies of memory. The analyzed activities are understood here as symbolic and cultural practices and aim to introduce changes on several levels: to change the historical consciousness of community members; to affect the nuances and expansion of national memory (in this case Serbian or Croatian); to modify the nature of memory. We are interested in interventions that are usually undertaken by persons or groups located on the outskirts of the system of power. Pamiec w dzialaniu – praktyki performatywne w sporze o przeszlosc. Serbia i Chorwacja na przelomie XX i XXI wiekuArtykul stanowi próbe polaczenia we wspólnej refleksji elementów dwóch kierunków myslenia krytycznego: dyskursywnego i performatywnego. Punktem wyjscia rozwazan jest wywodzace sie z przekonan patronujacych czasom przedperformatywnym zalozenie, ze kazda przestrzen (w tym terytorium miasta) mozna traktowac jako tekst. Oznacza to, ze zarówno statyczne artefakty, jak i odbywajace sie w przestrzeni aktywne dzialania komunikuja pewien przekaz i mozna je rozpatrywac jako znaki badz symbole odsylajace do czegos, co jest poza nimi. Nasza refleksja koncentruje sie na praktykach, w których z cala moca ujawnia sie potencjal performatywny i które mozna odczytywac jako rodzaj buntu wobec zastanej rzeczywistosci i obowiazujacych polityk pamieci. Analizowane dzialania rozumiane sa tutaj jako praktyki symboliczno-kulturowe, które stawiaja sobie za cel wprowadzenie przeksztalcen na kilku poziomach: zmiane swiadomosci historycznej czlonków spolecznosci; wplyniecie na zniuansowanie i poszerzenie pamieci narodowej (w tym wypadku serbskiej czy chorwackiej); modyfikacje charakteru pamieci. Interesuja nas interwencje podejmowane zwykle przez osoby badz grupy sytuujace sie na obrzezach systemu wladzy.

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