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Biograf 2008/45
Cesta z amnézie? Evropeizace a uznání romské minulosti a přítomnosti
The way out of amnesia? Europeanization and the recognition of the Roma´s past and present
In the course of the last two decades, various Romani activist and advocacy groups have increasingly tried to get recognized adequately the Romani Holocaust in Europe. However, despite the growing visibility of Romani monuments, exhibitions, commemorations, films and various testimonies of Romani Holocaust survivors, European audiences are still largely ignorant of the Romani Holocaust, at times even resistant to its recognition. Partly as a result of the often ineffective attempts for Holocaust recognition at local and national levels, these Romani groups and associations have lately "Europeanised" their activism and collaborated with partner and human rights organisations to "scale up" their call for recognition. Simultaneously, European institutions, those of the European Union in particular, have recently tried to assimilate the call for the recognition of the Romani Holocaust into their policies toward the Roma and their politics of European integration. This article focuses on the ongoing debate on the sites of two former Nazi concentration camps for the Roma in the Czech Republic. Both sites are occupied by businesses. Though Romani activists want to remove them to build decent memorials for an adequate recognition of the Romani Holocaust, their attempts have so far been unsuccessful. Taking this Czech Romani example, this article considers whether the recent Europeanisation of Romani activism for Holocaust remembrance could effectively challenge mechanisms that tend to marginalize European Romani groups and their histories.
Klíčová slova:
Europeanisation; Roma; memory; Holocaust remembrance; politics of integration; EU; Czech Republic
Překlad:
Marek JakoubekTémata Biografu:
Romové a romské otázky; Válka, zlo, agrese, zločinCitujte jako:
VAN BAAR, H. (2008): Cesta z amnézie? Evropeizace a uznání romské minulosti a přítomnosti. Biograf (45): 32 odst. Dostupné na adrese http://www.biograf.org/clanek.php?clanek=4503 [naposledy navštíveno 22. 10. 2024]Poděkování:
Stať je překladem textu / this text is a translation of: Huub van Baar (2008): The way out of amnesia? Europeanization and the recognition of the Roma’s past and present. Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture, 22 (3) (v tisku). Redakce děkuje autorovi a nakladatelství Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) za laskavé svolení k publikaci tohoto českého překladu / the editor thanks to the author and the publisher of the English original, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), for his their kind permission to publish the Czech translation of the paper (all rights to the article in print and online in English and in all other languages apart from Czech remain with Routledge).