Description
Book SynopsisThe study seeks to uncover the memorialisation of the Abyssinian-War in South Tyrol after 1945. Thus, it focuses on public places of remembrance, where different narrations about the Abyssinian-War circulate between various groups of memory activists. As the collective memory in South Tyrol is divided by the conflict between German speaking and Italian speaking, right-wing political groups, the divergent narrations about the Abyssinian-War also appear in a highly ideologized framework. Such different views on Mussolinis imperial war show how historiography in South Tyrol is being (mis-)used as a battleground of populist memory activists who articulate their socio-political agendas through their own version of the past. Against this background, different strategies to establish a critical historical consciousness are also discussed.
