Avrupa Birliği’nin Kaygı, Uyumsuzluk ve Emperyal Unutkanlığı
Filip Ejdus
According to the master commemorative narrative of EU, European integration project represents a break with violent past characterised by fragmentation and nationalism, which culminated in World War Two crimes Nazism Stalinism. However, recent scholarship has criticised omission 19th 20th-century colonialism from memory narratives advanced EU. In this article, I use permanent exhibition House History (HEH) Brussels take insight one step further make two arguments. Firstly, show that it is not only erased official but, more broadly, empires imperialism, although most history over 2000 years was imperial. Secondly, understand “imperial amnesia” as an anxiety-controlling mechanism aimed at reducing dissonance between self-proclaimed image normative civilian power on hand imperial-like tendencies its behaviour other.
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