dc.contributor.author | Thorstensen, Erik | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-06T11:38:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-02-06T11:38:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Thorstensen, E. (2012). The Places of Memory in a Square of Monuments: Conceptions of Past, Freedom and History at Szabadság Tér. AHEA: E-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, (Volume 5), 1-34. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1936-8879 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | FRIDAID 1007657 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/1820 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper I try to approach contemporary Hungarian political culture through an analysis of the history of changing monuments at Szabadság Tér in Budapest. The paper has as its point of origin a protest/irredentist monument facing the present Soviet liberation monument. In order to understand this irredentist monument, I look into the meaning of the earlier irredentist monuments under Horthy and try to see what monuments were torn down under Communism and which ones remained. I further argue that changes in the other monuments also affect the meaning of the others. From this background I enter into a brief interpretation of changes in memory culture in relation to changes in political culture. The conclusions point toward the fact that Hungary is actively pursuing a cleansing of its past in public spaces, and that this process is reflected in an increased acceptance of political authoritarianism | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | E-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association;5 (8) | en_US |
dc.subject | Monuments | en_US |
dc.subject | Budapest | en_US |
dc.subject | Irredentism | en_US |
dc.subject | Memory | en_US |
dc.subject | Public spaces | en_US |
dc.title | The Places of Memory in a Square of Monuments: Conceptions of Past, Freedom and History at Szabadság Tér | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://ahea.net/e-journal/volume-5-2012/8? | |