What is it about?
How do the young people form ideas about the past if they never experienced it personally? This is crucial in order to understand how 'old' conflicts are renewed among new generations. This paper analyses young Croats and their memory of the socialist Yugoslavia. It shows the importance of trusted or loved older people and family members who share their experiences of the past. But, these memories of the past become important for young people only if they can use them to make sense of their own lives.
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Why is it important?
This study compares how young people evaluate contrasting interpretations of the past coming from the people around them, from school and from the media. Therefore, this study is uniquely able to show what is it about different forms of the presented past that makes them more or less credible to the young people.
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This page is a summary of: ‘Things were good during Tito’s times, my parents say’: How young Croatian generations negotiated the socially mediated frames of the recent Yugoslav past, Memory Studies, July 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1750698018790122.
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