Contested Memory

This chapter provides a core and developed definition of contested memory, and presents the outline biography of this concept. The definition shows that contested memory points to the political dimension and the relational nature of the link between the past and the present which are intepreted in different ways in each of the three major sociological traditions of thought, used in memory studies. The outline biography shows that contested memory has been an integral part of modern political practice since its very beginnings and has been met with growing interest in memory studies from the 1980s to the present.