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This chapter categorizes the ways in which Second World War memorial museums, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, have transformed since the dissolution of Yugoslavia. It asks: which curatorial strategies can be singled out as the common denominators of the way these museums have been redefined after the breakup of Yugoslavia? The majority of publications on this topic focus on the biographies of individual museums. Others explore museums in Socialist Yugoslavia or in an individual successor state. In contrast, this research employed a comparative cross-regional approach, with the goal of illustrating the cultural pattern of collective memory in Yugoslavia whilst underlining the contested memory politics of post-socialist and post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia. This chapter asserts that even though reconceptualized museums—in all three of the countries in question—are communicating divergent historical narratives, the tactics of their translation into museal realities are surprisingly similar.
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Jagdhuhn, N. (2021). The Post-Yugoslav Kaleidoscope: Curatorial Tactics in the (Ethno) Nationalization of Second World War Memorial Museums in Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Bădescu, G., Baillie, B., Mazzucchelli, F. (eds) Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76401-2_12
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