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A beautiful flourish. The foundation story of Wroclaw (and Wroclaw residents)
2020
In the article, I present the content and the context of the foundation story of Wroclaw – created after 1945 in one of the largest and most destroyed cities which joined Poland after World War II (Polish Western and Northern Territories). The analyzed empirical material consists of personal documents – statements of Wroclaw residents written and submitted in 1966 for the competition entitled: “What does the city of Wrocław mean to you”. The most important element of this story about the creation of the city is the figure of a pioneer, shaped in the image of a mythical hero. The features of pioneers (such as courage, uncompromising love for the city and openness to others) have become an im…
Green Wrocław: Urban Narratives of Three Post-War Generations of Wrocław’s Inhabitants
2020
This study is an invitation to reflect on issues that fall within the area of collective memory, an area that awaits further in-depth analysis. More specifically, this article is a proposal of a broader study on cultural landscape and places of memory than that which is dominant in the sociological literature. In particular, I examine the relationship between the inhabitants of the Polish “Western Lands” and the material German heritage of the cities in which they happen to live. I mainly focus on the relation between socially constructed memory and greenery—a “negligible” part of the space of human life. As I demonstrate in the article, the “green” narrations about Wrocław created after Wo…
I remember... Of Social Construction of Memory of the City Dwellers in the Western and Northern Territories on the Example of Wrocław
2017
Celem artykulu jest przedstawienie wątkow pamieci spolecznej, ktore z jednej strony opierają sie na indywidualnym, potocznym doświadczeniu jednostki, z drugiej umieszczane są w spolecznie wynegocjowanych ramach pamieci zbiorowej. Artykul ten wpisuje sie rowniez w dyskusje nad miejscami pamieci i ich mozliwą treścią – wykraczającą poza podtrzymujące pamiec zbiorową muzea, pomniki, upamietniające tablice czy cmentarze – realizowaną w codziennym zyciu jednostki. Przedmiotem analiz jest pamiec spoleczna mieszkancow Wroclawia, ich konstrukcje światow spolecznych opierające sie na przestrzeni miasta obciązonej obcą kulturowo „pamiecią nieobecnych”.