The Politicization of History in North Macedonia (1941–2018)

Abstract

This analyses tries to map out a methodological pluralism and define the complex notion of the politicization of history, at least in its philosophical, political, and epistemological multidisciplinarity. This approach relativizes the traditional and evaluates the politicization of history as an exclusively negative social, cultural, and political phenomenon. Because of its complexity and what is colloquially understood by the term “politicization,” it could be more precise to use the more general notion of “ideology.” Furhter this analyses seeks to chronicle the development of the Macedonian collective political and cultural identity, which is currently disputed. This brief review focuses only on the modern and contemporary period of the emergence of the Macedonian nation, that is from 1941 to 2018, key years in which latent tendencies to finalize these historical processes in the form of a differentiated political identity—a modern Macedonian state—are most explicitly manifested.