How Does This Monument Make You Feel? Measuring Emotional Responses to War Memorials in Croatia

Since the collapse of communism and the disintegration of Yugoslavia, collective remembrance in all of the successor states has undergone dramatic transformations as part of nation-building projects and strategies to bolster the legitimacy of new political elites. This has included nationalist revisionism of the narratives of the Second World War and the creation of founding myths based on the bloody wars accompanying Yugoslavia’s dissolution. Although there is a general agreement across the political spectrum regarding the dominant nation-building narrative in Croatia, which emphasizes its victory in the War of Independence (known as theDomovinski rat, or Homeland War, 1991–1995),