SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities

English abstract: The article’s primary goal is to conduct case studies of Spanish memory policies introduced after 2007 and its comparison with CEE countries activities in the same field. The primary research hypothesis is: Do several case studies of several memory policies implemented in postcommunist states help examine the Spanish model of dealing with the past reformulation? This paper intends to show similarities and differences between Spanish and Central and Eastern European models of dealing with the past, which both are using legal means. I present some of the specific elements of postcommunist constitutionalisation in CEE, including memory narrations locations in several constitutions in the region. I also show the impact of memory narrations on individual states’ institutional policies from the CEE and the Kingdom of Spain. Finally, I show the hidden potential for Spanish political community reconstruction located in the memory laws.

Keywords: memory laws, juridification of the memory, collective memory, constitutionalism, democratic transtion

Language: Polish

Published: Number 3(28)/2021, pp. 22-38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2021.3.22

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University of New South Wales / University of Wrocław /
University of Zielona Góra

English abstract: This paper aims at explaining the concepts of collective memory, institutions, politics, law, as well as relations between them. By means of a short explanation of a network of mutual relations between these notions, we want to show how law and collective memories interact and how the relation between them is formed. At the same time, we see three modes of relations between collective memories and law: 1) past before the law, 2) memory laws and 3) law as collective memory. The first view consists in evaluating the past under a court trial. The second one in creating legal rules which promote or demand commemoration of a specific vision of the past. The third approach perceives law itself as institutionalized collective memory.

Keywords: collective memories, institutions, memory laws, politics of memory

Language: English

Published: Number 3(21)/2019, pp. 6-21.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36280/AFPiFS.2019.3.6

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