The City of Solidarity's Diverse Legacies: A Framework for Interpreting the Local Memory of the 1963 Skopje Earthquake and the Post-earthquake Urban Reconstruction

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.2478/jnmlp-2021-0007

Naum Trajanovski

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Abstract On July 26, 1963, a calamitous tremor struck Skopje, the capital of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, the southernmost Yugoslav federal unit. The politically nonaligned Yugoslav government immediately issued a call for help for its third-largest city. The call was initially picked up by the Yugoslav republics, who were then followed by more than 80 states across the globe and a high number of international organizations, all providing help to Skopje and Skopjans in the aftermath of the catastrophe—an episode of human solidarity many contemporaries described as unprecedented. This paper aims to provide an overview of commemorative activities held in Skopje from 1964 to 2020 related to the 1963 Skopje earthquake. I aim to reconstruct both the commemorative events and commemorative narratives about the 1963 Skopje earthquake in Skopje as well as its major memory agents and agencies by triangulating archival materials, media and institutional discourses, and secondary literature. I identify and discuss three commemorative phases, 1963–81, 1981–2000, and 2001–20, and I structure the argument on the multidirectionality of the notion of solidarity in the public domain.

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团结之城的多元遗产:1963年斯科普里地震和震后城市重建的地方记忆解读框架

1963年7月26日，一场灾难性的地震袭击了南斯拉夫最南端的联邦单位马其顿社会主义共和国的首都斯科普里。政治上不结盟的南斯拉夫政府立即呼吁为其第三大城市提供帮助。这一呼吁最初是由南斯拉夫共和国响应的，随后全球80多个国家和大量国际组织也响应了这一呼吁，所有这些国家都在灾难过后向斯科普里和斯科普里人提供了帮助——许多同时代的人将这一人类团结的时刻描述为前所未有的。本文旨在概述1964年至2020年在斯科普里举行的与1963年斯科普里地震有关的纪念活动。我的目标是重建1963年斯科普里地震的纪念事件和纪念叙述，以及主要的记忆媒介和机构，方法是将档案材料、媒体和机构话语以及二手文献进行三角分析。我确定并讨论了三个纪念阶段，1963-81年，1981-2000年和2001-20年，并构建了关于公共领域团结概念的多向性的论点。

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