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13 - The Past and Its Presence in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Memory Cultures

The Battle of Kosovo and the Status of Jerusalem

from Part III - Global History and the Imperial Fundaments of International Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2023

By
Anna Vlachopoulou  and
Stephan Stetter
Edited by
Klaus Schlichte  and
Stephan Stetter
Klaus Schlichte
Affiliation:
Universität Bremen
Stephan Stetter
Affiliation:
Universität der Bundeswehr München
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Summary

This chapter examines how the double historical experience with imperialism is incorporated into the collective memory of Ottoman and Post-Ottoman societies and to what end. While collective memory – sociocultural narratives and practices of collectively remembering (and forgetting) specific aspects of the past – and its cultivation reflects to the past it is a product of the respecting present. Using the example of the Battle of Kosovo and the Status of Jerusalem and focussing on the linkages between memory cultures and national identities this chapter highlights how different actors at different points in time have made use of the Ottoman past to shape the Post-Ottoman present according to their respective agenda.

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memory cultureimperialismcollective memorynation-buildingKosovoJerusalem
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The Historicity of International Politics
Imperialism and the Presence of the Past
 , pp. 267 - 288
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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