%0 Journal Article %T Flooded with memories: Emergence and development of the ¡°memory boom¡± %A Bajovi£¿ Tijana %J Filozofija i Dru£¿tvo %D 2012 %I Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade %R 10.2298/fid1203091b %X This paper aims to describe the development of the recent wave of interest in memory and the past in general (so-called ¡°memory boom¡±), as well as the overall cultural climate that encouraged this ¡°invasion¡± of the past in both public and scientific discourses. While the first wave of memory boom was supposed to legitimate the emerging nation-states, the second boom signified the exhaustion of the old paradigm of nationalism, decline of the nation-state, as well as the emergence of a new paradigm: globalization. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 179049: Politike dru tvenog pam enja i nacionalnog identiteta - regionalni i evropski kontekst] %K globalization of memory %K memory boom %K memory %K memory studies %K politics of memory %U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2012/0353-57381203091B.pdf