[Commlist] *Call for Book Chapters* The Greek 1940s in Popular Culture: Digital media, Films, Journalism, Art, and the Memory of the Occupation and Civil War

*Call for Book Chapters* The Greek 1940s in Popular Culture: Digital 
media, Films, Journalism, Art, and the Memory of the Occupation and 
Civil War

The 1940s was ‘a decade of social disintegration, political collapse, 
and mass violence unprecedented in degree and scale’ (Mazower, 2000:1). 
During the 1940s, Greece experienced some of the most significant 
moments in the contemporary history of the country, defining the 
socio-political environment until today. Yet, Greece is one of the very 
few European countries that do not official commemorate the end of the 
war and the liberation of the country, while, at the same time, the 
Civil War is considered more catastrophic than the Axis occupation and a 
turning point for the Cold War by the official historiography.
Due to the political repression of the left, right-wing narratives 
dominated the post-war era, and that had a significant impact on the 
development of collective historical memory, as seen in other countries. 
The dominant narration regarding Occupation and Civil War shaped by the 
historical changes and democratic struggles of the following decades: 
from the 1960s and the discussion around sociopolitical resistance, to 
the military dictatorship’s extreme right-wing discourse of the 1970s, 
all the way to the political reconciliation of the 1980s, signalling a 
new historical era for the country and the ideological constructions of 
the turmoiled decade of the 1940s. Until the late 1980s, the literature 
was vastly focused on the study of resistance during occupation, while 
after the early 1990s, the Civil War and collaboration with the Axis 
were some of the topics investigated in the scholarship.
Despite the fact that lately there has been an increased focus on the 
investigation of this period, it is the dominant media industries which 
constructed in different ways the public discourse and collective memory 
of the Civil War to this day. On the other hand, latest approaches on 
the study of occupation and Civil War suggest that the media silencing 
of the forces of liberation is followed by an intensified academic 
attempt at the re-writing of history. Conservative academic historians 
drive this process, claiming a sort of “hegemony of the left” in public 
discourse, which was developed especially after the fall of the military 
junta in 1974. They suggest that left-wing forces are unjustified to 
assert that their efforts are not being represented enough or 
proportionally in media and official historiography. For this reason, 
they attempt to re-write history along so-called objective lines, to 
show that the claims of the left on historiographic representation are 
on the contrary untrue, and therefore illegitimate. Latest studies show 
that such an attempt by historians fit into a framework of liberal 
democratic Europe, thus having a specific ideological agenda, which in 
no way holds an objective outlook on history. In other words, such 
frameworks of analysing and re-writing history fit into the description 
of a continuation of the civil war in other ways, because such revision 
of history is producing and reproducing ideology, politics and power by 
scholarly means.
Considering the impact of the 1940s on influencing and polarising Greek 
political culture to this day, this edited volumed aims to bring 
together academics, researchers, and practitioners to investigate:

1.Historical continuities and discontinuities in the public discourse 
and the creation of diverse sets of publics, polarisation and conflict 
in Greece and internationally;
2.Different forms of media contributing to the construction of public 
discourse and collective memory online and offline: films, digital 
media, journalism, art, memory and the representation of the 1940s;
3.Traditional, interdisciplinary approaches, and new 
digital/computational tools that can be used for the study of occupation 
and civil war in films, digital media, journalism, art, memory and the 
representation of the 1940s

The editorial team [Ioanna Ferra, Higher School of Economics, and 
Leandros Savvides, Global College Nicosia] welcomes manuscripts which 
fit with the overall focus. Chapter proposals should include (a) Title 
of the contribution/chapter and the preferred contribution section 
(1-3), (b) Name, affiliation, and email address of each author (c) 
Preliminary abstract of the proposed chapter (300-500words). Please 
submit your chapter proposals to (thegreek40sinmedia /at/ gmail.com)  by 15 
February 2022. Final chapters between 5-7000 words, all-inclusive.

Timeline:
Proposal submission deadline: 15 February 2022
Editor decisions on proposals: 14 March 2022
Complete manuscript drafts due: 12 June 2022
Final manuscript due: 14 October 2022

Please email your chapter proposal to (thegreek40sinmedia /at/ gmail.com)

*No payment from the authors will be required/ No Article Processing Charges

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