Learning from the atrocities of the past protects us today from threats to peace, freedom and democracy. However, through distorted representations of the past or derivatives thereof, history becomes a political weapon. How do you portray history so that that doesn’t happen? How do you not fall into the trap of distorted truths? We asked the expert.
Wars, genocides, suffering: this is what political scientist Ljiljana Radonić from the Institute for Cultural Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) is confronted with every day in her work. What could be so fascinating about it? “It’s not about fascination,” she explains, “but about the fact that critical research into the criminal past is essential for a somewhat sensible coexistence today.”
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