Professional paper

The Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar

Mateo Gospić

Abstract

In this article, the author uses the history of the city of Mostar to illuminate the relationship between collective memory and a changing social and political paradigm. Indeed, the author writes about the history of the Partisan Memorial Cemetery, a necropolis/monument built in 1965, to show how a dramatic rupture of the dominant social and political paradigm reflected on the material state of the monument. The introduction gives a short historical overview and establishes the importance of the Partisan Memorial Cemetery for those studying collective memory. In the analysis, the author separates the life of the Partisan Memorial Cemetery into three stages and describes the relationship between the citizens of Mostar and the monument. In the conclusion, the author sums up the connection between a shifting collective memory and the treatment of the Partisan Memorial Cemetery.

Keywords

Partisan Memorial Cemetery; Mostar; collective memory; collective identity; Yugoslavia; Croatia; Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hrčak ID:

279041

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/279041

Publication date:

31.12.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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