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Author Narvselius, Eleonora.

Title Diversity in the East-Central European Borderlands [electronic resource] : Memories, Cityscapes, People.

Imprint Berlin : Ibidem Verlag, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource (437 p.).
Series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; v.235
Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Contents Intro -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Remembering Diversity in East-Central European Cityscapes -- Urban Environment and Perished Populations in Chişinău, Chernivtsi, L'viv, and Wrocław. Historical Background and Memories Versus City Planning and Future Perspectives -- Between Anonymity and Attachment. Remembering Others in Lviv's Pidzamche District -- On the Peripheries of Memory. Tracing the History of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław's Urban Imaginary -- Moving Forward through the Past. Bukovina's Rediscovery after 1989-91
Thinking Differently, Acting Separately? Heritage Discourse and Heritage Treatment in Chişinău -- Myths and Monuments in the Collective Consciousness and Social Practice of Wrocław -- A Tragedy of the Galician Diversity. Commemoration of Polish Professors Killed in Lviv during World War II -- A Tangle of Memory. The Eternitate Memorial Complex in Chişinău and History Politics in Moldova -- Patterns of Collective Memory. Socio-Cultural Diversity in Wrocław Urban Memory -- Identificational and Attitudinal Trends in the Ukrainian-Romanian Borderland of Bukovina -- About the Editors
About the Contributors -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Built on up-to-date field material, this edited volume suggests an anthropological approach to the palimpsest-like milieus of Wrocław, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău. In these East-Central European borderline cities, the legacies of Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, and violent ethno-nationalism have been revisited in recent decades in search of profound moral reckoning and in response to the challenges posed by the (post-)transitional period. Present shapes and contents of these urban settings derive from combinations of fragmented material environments, cultural continuities and political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective memories about the contentious past, expressive architectural forms and less conspicuous meaning-making activities of human actors. In other words, they evolve from perpetual tensions between choices of the past and the burden of the past. A novel feature of this book is its multi-level approach to the analysis of engagements with the lost diversity in historical urban milieus full of post-war voids and ruptures. In particular, the collected studies test the possibility of combining the theoretical propositions of Memory Studies with broader conceptualizations of borderlands, cosmopolitan sociality, urban mythologies, and hybridity. -- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Geopolitics -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century.
Geopolitics -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Geopolitics
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Added Author Fedor, Julie.
Umland, Andreas.
Larsson, Bo.
Otrishchenko, Natalia.
Golden, Juliet D.
Cervinikova, Hana.
Felcher, Anastasia.
Czajkowski, Pawel.
Voronovici, Alexandr.
Other Form: Print version: Narvselius, Eleonora Diversity in the East-Central European Borderlands Berlin : Ibidem Verlag,c2021
ISBN 9783838275239
3838275233