Descripción del proyecto
Una análisis más detallado de los proyectos imperiales del pasado
¿Cómo logran articularse las memorias colectivas de los imperios de los Habsburgo, otomano y los Romanov a través de conjuntos de personas, lugares y objetos? El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos REVENANT buscará responder está pregunta de investigación. Desde una perspectiva comparativa, los investigadores estudiarán los proyectos imperiales del pasado (indisociables de la vida cultural y política contemporánea) a través de la amplia geografía de Europa central y oriental, los Balcanes, Asia central y el Cáucaso, y Oriente Próximo. El equipo del proyecto analizará cómo y por qué algunos personajes históricos galvanizan las memorias colectivas de los imperios, además de estudiar cómo determinados lugares se convierten en sitios conmemorativos posimperiales. La investigación se basará en conocimientos de antropología, sociología, historia, literatura comparativa, arte e historia de la arquitectura, estudios de la memoria y estudios de cultura material.
Objetivo
The research project REVENANT will examine contemporacollective memories and legacies of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Romanov Empires from a capacious, comparative perspective. Across the broad geography of central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, central Asia and the Caucasus, and the Middle East, bygone imperial projects are increasingly inseparable from contemporary political and cultural life. REVANANT will constitute the first comprehensive research project to grapple with these complex, overlapping post-imperial memories and legacies. Our overarching research question is: How do collective memories of the Habsburg, Ottoman and Romanov Empires achieve articulation through ensembles of persons, places and things? The threefold heuristic of persons, places, and things determines three secondary research questions. First, how and why do certain historical personages galvanize collective memories of empires? Secondly, how do specific places become sites of post-imperial memory? Thirdly, how are bygone empires embodied through a variety of objects and material culture? The research for REVENANT will be resolutely interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from Anthropology, Sociology, History, Comparative Literature, Art and Architectural History, Memory Studies, and Material Culture Studies. Accordingly, it will rely on a variety of methods, including participant observation, visual ethnography, archival research, targeted interviews with key actors, and discourse analysis. In addition to the principal investigator, the research group will consist of three postdoctoral fellows and three doctoral students. REVENANT will be based at the Cultural Studies Department of the University of Rijeka, Croatia; Rijeka will also be one of the project's research sites. The envisioned results and outputs of REVENANT include a variety of scholarly publications and academic symposia, as well as a documentary film, a photographic exhibition, and a multi-faceted project website.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
51000 Rijeka
Croacia