Professional paper
I remember only happy days." Etnography of social memory of war-time medical work
Matea Korda
Abstract
In this article the author examines social memory of war-time medical work and the memory of Homeland war from the perspective of work and workplace, through the concepts of culture of memory and politics of memory. A biographical interview conducted with the researcher's mother and a collection of testimonies of war-time medical workers are the body of the analysis. The author appliea a qualitative methodology characteristic of ethnographic research using the method of comparative narrative reading. The aim of the article is to provide a more detailed insight into the interrelation of culture of memory and politics of memory within the social memory of war-time medical work. The analysis of the contemporary construction of the shared past of war-time medical workers shows the effects this process has on constructing individual and social identities. It shows how individuals are differentiated within the group depending on their memories of war-time medical work. The purpose of this article is to offer a new perspective in the research of social memory of Homeland war – a perspective that considers the war-time everyday life of the medical worker who is constructed both literally and metaphorically in between the civilian and the soldier.
Keywords
Homeland war, social memory, culture of remebering, politics of memory, war-time medical work
Hrčak ID:
253238
URI
Publication date:
5.3.2021.
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