11. mail esineb Dr Comer ettekandega \u2018Necropolitics, Memory, and War: Contested Heritage and Security in Estonia\u2019 iga-aastasel Cambridge Heritage s\u00fcmpoosionil “Encountering Human Remains: Heritage Issues and Ethical Considerations\u201d. Ettekanne on osa paneelist \u2018European Conflictscapes and the War Dead\u2019. Ettekanne on inglise keeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This paper examines the intersection of heritage, memory, politics, and national identity in contemporary Tallinn, capital of Estonia. Specifically, it analyzes sites of mass killing and mass burial related to the first and second Soviet occupations; the Nazi occupation, including the Holocaust; and the Great Patriotic War\/World War II. In the aftermath of the war, memorials to Red Army losses were erected across Estonia, many including burials. Some memorials to victims of Nazism were also erected, but the Jewish identity of Holocaust victims went unmentioned. After 1991, memorials and museums commemorating victims of Soviet repression developed across Estonia, while Holocaust memorials were revamped and Red Army memorials reconsidered. The widespread \u2018double genocide\u2019 presentation of Holocaust and Soviet repression has long been criticized for downplaying crimes under fascism and eliding local collaboration, while the necropolitics of burial sites have become more urgent since the 2022 intensification of the war in Ukraine; as the \u2018red monuments\u2019 to Soviet military victory have come to signify a \u2018danger\u2019 to contemporary Estonia, the question of how to handle the sites\u2019 human remains has arisen. This paper examines how rhetoric and decisions about these sites compares to the heritage narratives and necropolitics on display at former sites of violence such as Patarei Prison, the KGB Prison Cells, and the unmarked site of the Uus Street Holocaust massacre. How are different types of killing and death interpreted, and how are victims and perpetrators identified? How do these identifications change over time, and to what political usages are narratives of loss and death put?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Comeri ettekande pealkiri on \u2018Necropolitics, Memory, and War: Contested Heritage and Security in Estonia\u2019 ","protected":false},"author":4,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1444","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n