Disputed Histories - Personal and Official Narratives in (Post) Yugoslav Era History Textbooks

• Main Author: Vahida Ramujkić
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MI-AN Publishing 2015-08-01
• Series: Kultura (Skopje)
• Subjects: history textbooks, history curriculum, official historical narratives and identities, private histories and identities, socially engaged art practice, art and ideologies, history and ideology, Post-Yugoslav nati¬o¬na-lisms, socialist era
• Online Access: http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/128

<p class="IEEEAbtract">This paper examines the shift that took place when official historical narratives began to be conceived from the perspective of personal histories (and ident­ities) in the post-Yugoslav context. It opens up a space in which to imagine new positions that can lead to the construction of more coherent official historical narra­ti­ves, beyond narrow national perspectives. This paper is based on material arising from the experience of wor­king on the artistic/research project <em>Disputed Histories, </em>which consists of a library of history textbooks and a series of complementary workshops, which compare and analyse a series of different history curricula.</p>