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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... more
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 postwar 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.
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Formulas of Betrayal Bridges an obvious gap in the market of Anglophone academic literature as it provides a multidisciplinary and transnational perspective on the subject of treason, betrayal and collaboration Focuses not on historical... more
Formulas of Betrayal Bridges an obvious gap in the market of Anglophone academic literature as it provides a multidisciplinary and transnational perspective on the subject of treason, betrayal and collaboration Focuses not on historical underpinnings, but rather on mnemonic transformations of the " facts " of betrayal and collaboration Suggests an updated scholarly perspective that incorporates theoretical suggestions of memory studies, anthropology and cultural studies This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to shaping and imposition of " formulas for betrayal " as a result of changing memory politics in postwar Europe. The contributors, who specialize in history, sociology, anthropology, memory studies, media studies and cultural studies, discuss the exertion of political control over memory (including the selection, imposition, silencing or ideological " twisting " of facts), the usage of " formulas for betrayal " in various cultural-political contexts, and the discursive framing of the betraying subject for the purpose of legitimizing various memory regimes and ideologies.
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Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia’s voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian... more
Intelligentsia assumes the right to speak in the name of the entire nation and to extrapolate its own tastes, values and choices to it. Therefore, intelligentsia’s voices have been in many ways decisive in the discussions about Ukrainian national identity, which gained momentum in the post-Soviet Ukrainian society. The historical and cultural cityscape of L’viv is an especially apt site for investigation of the nexus intelligentsia-nation not only in the Ukrainian, but in the East-Central European context. This borderline city, while not being a remarkable industrial, administrative or political centre, has acquired the reputation of a site of unique cultural production and a principal center of the Ukrainian nationalist movement throughout the twentieth century. Here the popular conceptions of intelligentsia have been elaborated at the intersection of various cultural, historical and political traditions. This study addresses Ukrainian-speaking intelligentsia and intellectuals in L’viv both as a discursive phenomenon and as the social category of cultural producers who in the new circumstances both articulate the nation and are articulated by it.
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Social identity theory argues that conflict between groups diminishes if they discover they have something important in common, and if they can build a new hybrid identity together. With this premise in mind, the article demonstrates how... more
Social identity theory argues that conflict between groups diminishes if they discover they have something important in common, and if they can build a new hybrid identity together. With this premise in mind, the article demonstrates how present- day experiences of refugees, displaced ethnic groups, political exiles, foreign-born workers, diasporic populations and other migrants may be incorporated into the existing body of predominantly national historical landscapes and stories addressing expulsions, exile and forced displacement experienced by European populations in the twentieth century. It is argued that we should look closer at the compositional processes and orchestration of migrant heritage in Europe as an inherently political concept that may both amplify and interfere with social cohesion. The article discusses the compositional strategies (grafting, bifurcation and suture) that loosen up the structure of representations and have been used experimentally by four cultural institutions in Italy, Spain, Germany and Poland. The article maintains that series of hands-on small- and middle-scale experiments and compositional adjustments may be highly instrumental in enhancing the value of the heritage of forced migrations, not only as a domain of conflicting academic interpretations, but also as a factor of intercultural cohesion in a broader perspective.
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Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Eleonora Narvselius, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa take on a problem that many departments, not least in the humanities, are dealing with right now: language. They show how so- cial status in academia is decoupled... more
Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Eleonora Narvselius, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa take on a problem that many departments, not least in the humanities, are dealing with right now: language. They show how so- cial status in academia is decoupled from linguistic integration, at least if we under- stand status in terms of academic titles. Feelings of insufficiency and incomplete- ness are, however, prevalent, even among those whose Swedish proficiency is ob- jectively very high. The authors underline the value of language, how competence in English, Swedish, and other languages is crucial for academics’ possibilities to work and build careers.
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In popular imagery, the former Habsburg province of Galicia and its capital city Lemberg/ Lwów/Lviv have been acclaimed for their unique mixture of religions, cultures and national- ities. However, there are also darker sides of this... more
In popular imagery, the former Habsburg province of Galicia and its capital city Lemberg/ Lwów/Lviv have been acclaimed for their unique mixture of religions, cultures and national- ities. However, there are also darker sides of this Galician diversity, as became evident during the wars and crises of the first half of the twentieth century. It is instructive to explore how the entanglements between collective and individual choices, cultural genealogies and political aspirations looked in practice in this part of Europe, and how historical events of the twentieth century have reflected this complexity. This article explores one such event: the murder of a group of eminent Polish academics during the Nazi occupation of Lviv/Lwów. After the war, this tragic episode was commemorated quite independently in the two parts of Galicia now divided by the redrawn Polish–(Soviet)Ukrainian border.The episode remains controversial due to the contradictory interpretative frameworks and agenda-setting of various actors involved into the memorialization.The author draws on Michael Rothberg’s concept of multidirectional memory to highlight how reverberations of Galician diversity can be approached from an anthropological perspective, focusing on meaning-making and agency.
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The contributions to this special issue explore the multi‐ layered urban environments of East‐Central European borderlands. They bring into focus the cityscapes of Wrocław, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău, where the legacies of Nazism,... more
The contributions to this special issue explore the multi‐ layered urban environments of East‐Central European borderlands. They bring into focus the cityscapes of Wrocław, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău, where the legacies of Nazism, Marxist‐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. While much has been written about the history of these cities, there is a dearth of knowledge about how their contemporary residents make sense of the cityscapes stripped of their historical populations, and how they deal with the history and memory of those populations. This introductory essay suggests a tentative approach to the analysis of engagements with the lost diversity in historical urban milieus full of post‐war voids and ruptures. In particular, it tests the possibility of combining the theoretical propositions of Memory Studies with broader conceptualizations of borderlands, cosmopolitan sociality, and hybridity.
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Since the beginning of the new millennium, the concept of Intermarium has enjoyed a renaissance in the domain of international relations and in popular political discourse. The author contends that it may serve as a useful narrative... more
Since the beginning of the new millennium, the concept of Intermarium has enjoyed a renaissance in the domain of international relations and in popular political discourse. The author contends that it may serve as a useful narrative framework for exploring the multilayered urban environments of Lviv, Wrocław, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău whose legacies of Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, and violent ethno-nationalism have been revisited over the last decades, and whose contemporary denizens have been searching to incorporate democratic European outlooks. While volumes and volumes have been written about history of these borderline cities, not that much is known about how the present-day urbanites make sense of the cityscapes stripped of their historical populations, and how they deal with memories about the perished people. This essay suggests a tentative approach to analysis of engagements with the perished cultural diversity. In particular, it tests a possibility of combining theoretical propositions formulated within memory studies with broader conceptualizations of borderlands, cosmopolitanism, and hybridity.
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The article analyses the contexts, arguments and paradoxes of thinking about cultural heritage in Sweden of the 2000s when the topic achieved broad societal relevance in traditional media, internet fora, political communication and... more
The article analyses the contexts, arguments and paradoxes of thinking about cultural heritage in Sweden of the 2000s when the topic achieved broad societal relevance in traditional media, internet fora, political communication and academic research. The discussion focuses on four themes: the normative criticism paradigm that has been increasingly influential in the heritage sector in recent years and the tensions and conflicts it provokes, recent heritage work on and with the until the last two decades silent ethnic minority Romani Travellers, the continuing media polemic around the Sweden Democrats and its heritage policies , and the heritage debate initiated by journalist and China expert Ola Wong in 2016. The analysis builds on projects and publications featuring heritage professionals , academics, NGO people and professionals with other kinds of cultural capital working in the heritage sector, as well as on illustrative debates and interviews in the mass media. The debates are often heavily polarized, interwo-ven with positions in other politically loaded issues such as globalization, migration and integration, and laden with questions of the legitimacy and authority of political and institutional actors. ABSTRACT 58 POLITEJA 1(52)/2018
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The article explores ways in which the nineteenth-century Prussian military architecture has been used and promoted as a part of the local heritage in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Accommodation of the old fortification buildings to... more
The article explores ways in which the nineteenth-century Prussian military architecture has been used and promoted as a part of the local heritage in the Russian exclave of
Kaliningrad. Accommodation of the old fortification buildings to tourism and museum work has been publicly discussed since the beginning of the 2000s, but
neither local nor federal authorities have proposed a plan to adapt them to nonmilitary purposes. As a result, these structures, which are protected by federal
heritage laws and uniformly built of characteristic red bricks, have become an arena for various initiatives, experiments, and games with the past. Strategies of
virtualization discussed in the paper reveal a lack of open public discussion about dark episodes of Russian and Soviet history. Consequently, it is important to learn
more about how and why contemporary Kaliningraders appropriate the local German legacies, use globally accepted strategies of heritage construction, and develop
cooperation with the EU countries, while remaining receptive to official historical narratives promulgated by the national center.
Keywords: Kaliningrad; Great Patriotic War; heritage; fortifications; virtualization; mythscapes
Kaliningrad. Accommodation of the old fortification buildings to tourism and museum work has been publicly discussed since the beginning of the 2000s, but
neither local nor federal authorities have proposed a plan to adapt them to nonmilitary purposes. As a result, these structures, which are protected by federal
heritage laws and uniformly built of characteristic red bricks, have become an arena for various initiatives, experiments, and games with the past. Strategies of
virtualization discussed in the paper reveal a lack of open public discussion about dark episodes of Russian and Soviet history. Consequently, it is important to learn
more about how and why contemporary Kaliningraders appropriate the local German legacies, use globally accepted strategies of heritage construction, and develop
cooperation with the EU countries, while remaining receptive to official historical narratives promulgated by the national center.
Keywords: Kaliningrad; Great Patriotic War; heritage; fortifications; virtualization; mythscapes
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Translation of the article Eleonora Narvselius (2015). "Tragic Past, Agreeable Heritage: Post-Soviet Intellectual Discussions on the Polish Legacy in Western Ukraine," The Carl Beck Papers no. 2403, ISSN
0889-275X
0889-275X
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The article is a result of field studies on the transformations of multicultural heritage in the East-Central European cities of Cracow, Wrocław, Lviv and Chernivtsi. In all these cities, a majority of the pre-war populations (and in... more
The article is a result of field studies on the transformations of multicultural
heritage in the East-Central European cities of Cracow, Wrocław, Lviv and Chernivtsi. In all
these cities, a majority of the pre-war populations (and in Wrocław, practically all pre-war
residents) disappeared as a result of WWII. After decades of silence imposed by the ruling
communist elites, collective memories of the post-war populations are now surfacing in public
discourse. Precisely how the contemporary populations living in the zones of ‘dismembered
multiethnicity’ approach the past’s cultural diversity in the everyday life remains, however,
an underinvestigated topic. Under these circumstances, ethnography proves to be an
innovative methodological approach particularly suited to studying local expressions of
transnational memory. Based on the methodological approach of multi-sited ethnography, the
article examines thematic restaurants which allude to cultures of some perished ethnic groups
(in particular, Jews, Poles, and Germans).
heritage in the East-Central European cities of Cracow, Wrocław, Lviv and Chernivtsi. In all
these cities, a majority of the pre-war populations (and in Wrocław, practically all pre-war
residents) disappeared as a result of WWII. After decades of silence imposed by the ruling
communist elites, collective memories of the post-war populations are now surfacing in public
discourse. Precisely how the contemporary populations living in the zones of ‘dismembered
multiethnicity’ approach the past’s cultural diversity in the everyday life remains, however,
an underinvestigated topic. Under these circumstances, ethnography proves to be an
innovative methodological approach particularly suited to studying local expressions of
transnational memory. Based on the methodological approach of multi-sited ethnography, the
article examines thematic restaurants which allude to cultures of some perished ethnic groups
(in particular, Jews, Poles, and Germans).
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This study examines intellectual arguments detectable in the public debate on the thorny history of the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands. It focuses primarily on discourses generated by the Ukrainian (first and foremost, West Ukrainian) party... more
This study examines intellectual arguments detectable in the public debate on the thorny history of the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands. It focuses primarily on discourses generated by the Ukrainian (first and foremost, West Ukrainian) party of the dispute. As subordinated to the nation-centric historical accounts, but increasingly important theme opened for multiple uses, the historical diversity of the Polish- Ukrainian borderlands became an object of intellectual re-interpretation in Western Ukraine since the 2000s. Framing this intellectual asset in terms of multicultural heritage (bahatokul’turna spadshchyna) has signaled the effort of the Ukrainian intellectuals to inscribe the local—and, at the same time, transnational—past to a coherent national narrative. On the way, however, it proved to be that the multi- cultural “universes”—in particular, the Polish one—resist the seamless inclusion into the fabrics of Ukrainian-centric historical accounts due to unresolved memory conflicts rooted in the events of WWII and the post-war period. One of them is the resonant Polish-Ukrainian controversy over interpretation of the anti-Polish action of 1943—44 in Volhynia and Galicia whose ups and downs demonstrate, among other things, that a lack of mutually compatible intellectual conceptualizations of the shared past may undermine trustworthiness of gestures of political reconcilia- tion. Nevertheless, taking the lid off the topic of Polish-Ukrainian violence that was hushed up during the Soviet period allowed Western Ukrainian memory actors to start talking about the multicultural heritage as a public good that deserves public attention. Nevertheless, in the author’s opinion, it is still unclear whether in the nearest future the narratives on the dismembered Galician polyethnicity will appeal to cultural imagination of wider audiences or will instead remain an exclusive asset of elitist custodians.
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Despite geographical proximity and some comparable features of historical development since the fall of the Soviet system, Lviv and Chernivtsi betray quite different patterns of commemoration and practices in approaching the past.... more
Despite geographical proximity and some comparable features of historical development since the fall of the Soviet system, Lviv and Chernivtsi betray quite different patterns of commemoration and practices in approaching the past. Different commemorative practices and attitudes to the recent past in the two cities might point out the existence of different cultures of memory that sustain a basic narrative about acceptance or denial of ethnic diversity. Aside from references to, by and large, the same historical periods and types of political regimes, the cultures of memory in the two cities have another common characteristic, namely, the mode in which memory works among contemporary urbanites. The attitudes to the past among the great majority of present-day urban populations are formed not through personal experience and family transmission of past-memories, but rather through prosthetic memory, relying on hearsay, media, literature, popular culture and the arts. As the deliberate choice of the past comes to the fore, the work of stitching together contradictory historical representations within various identity projects is guided not so much by path-dependent logic of collective memory, but rather by present-day expediency and power games of different mnemonic actors. Therefore, we argue, the most observable trend in cultures of memory in present-day Lviv and Chernivtsi is pillarization, i.e., the basic agreement of both external and internal memory entrepreneurs and marketeers that every population group is a custodian of its “own” heritage. However, the condition of heritage envisioned in the two cities seems to be rather an assimilationist “incorporation-to-the-core” model, where the core consists of various versions of Ukrainian national heritage.
У цій статті проаналізовано основні інтелектуальні стратегії, використані в дискусії про одну з найнапруженіших тем польсько-українського минулого – а саме про міжетнічне насильство у Волині та Галичині впродовж 1943–1944 рр. Йтиметься... more
У цій статті проаналізовано основні інтелектуальні стратегії, використані в дискусії про одну з найнапруженіших тем польсько-українського минулого – а саме про міжетнічне насильство у Волині та Галичині впродовж 1943–1944 рр. Йтиметься передусім про аргументи, які в цій дискусії запропонувала західноукраїнська сторона. Інтелектуальні дискурси польських опінієтворців щодо Волині згадано лише побіжно, адже ця широка тема заслуговує на окремe дослідження[1]. Головна теза статті полягає в тому, що певні викривлення, непослідовності та пробіли в інтерпретаціях Волині можна пояснити в контексті ширшого інтелектуального процесу вписування локального – і водночас транснаціонального – минулого в зв’язний національний наратив. Адже в процесі з’ясовується, що розмаїття польсько-українських історичних зв’язків на прикордонні не можна просто й безпроблемно підлаштувати під україноцентричні історичні візії через невирішені конфлікти пам’яті, закорінені в подіях Другої світової війни та повоєнного періоду.
This article explores the core propositions articulated by several public actors in the so-called Bandera debate, i.e., discussions about the usable past and legacy of the wartime Ukrainian nationalist insurgency and its central symbolic... more
This article explores the core propositions articulated by several public actors in the so-called Bandera debate, i.e., discussions about the usable past and legacy of the wartime Ukrainian nationalist insurgency and its central symbolic figure, Stepan Bandera. In Western Ukraine, popular historical imagery as well as intellectual polemics about “Ukrainization” of World War II challenged both the Soviet myth of the Great Patriotic War and the European model of politics of regret. Correspondingly, one of the main ideas conveyed during the Bandera debate in Western Ukraine was the necessity of liberalization of the national politics of memory, i.e., the process of opening the political discourses and public debate to a circulation of diverse voices and narratives concerning the national past, a circulation unrestrained by political pressure. Generally, however, wartime events and figures continue to be presented in line with dichotomous national discourses. As the example of a chain of restaurants exploiting the theme of World War II demonstrates, one-dimensional interpretations of the contentious past suggested to the public by the actors involved in the commercialization of historical knowledge may have far-reaching, unpredictable implications. This is especially true in the post-Orange Western Ukraine where politics—including politics of memory—is increasingly determined by ultra-right forces such as VO Svoboda.
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With Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada) and Dr. Eleonora Narvselius (Lund University, Sweden) Recorded as part of the second Witnessing the War in Ukraine Summer... more
With Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada) and Dr. Eleonora Narvselius (Lund University, Sweden)
Recorded as part of the second Witnessing the War in Ukraine Summer Institute (12-16 June, 2023 in Kraków, Poland)
This presentation takes for its vantage point the idea that the unprecedented geopolitical circumstance of the ongoing displacement of Ukrainians has to be reflected in corresponding theoretical optics and conceptual approaches. The EU’s protection mechanism activated in the wake of Russia’s aggression in February 2022 has a temporary character. It aims to both facilitate sustenance and accommodation of Ukrainians (the majority being women and children), and at the same time envisions their quick return with the end of the war. In this situation the question of migrant integration as a long-term and more or less fixed state of belonging has to be considered against the possibility of home-making as a process of creating a safe, familiar, and controllable gendered space that does not need to be permanent, but nevertheless should not look like “stuckness” against one’s wishes. Even in a situation of great uncertainty it is necessary to think about not only the material, but also the psychological well-being of affected Ukrainians and the people around them.
This exploration of personal and collective memories of home among Ukrainian refugees as well as their ‘homing’ in the new environments where some shared pasts, recognizable historical triggers, and (post)colonial histories may be decoded and interpreted, will enrich the studies of home-making with the manifested focus on the right of historicity.
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Witnessing the War in Ukraine Summer Institute Organizers:
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Lund University, Sweden
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Warsaw, Poland
Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Dobra Wola Foundation, Poland
Ukrainian Oral History Association, Ukraine
Polish Oral History Association, Poland
Learn more about the WWSI here: https://www.ualberta.ca/canadian-inst...
Recorded as part of the second Witnessing the War in Ukraine Summer Institute (12-16 June, 2023 in Kraków, Poland)
This presentation takes for its vantage point the idea that the unprecedented geopolitical circumstance of the ongoing displacement of Ukrainians has to be reflected in corresponding theoretical optics and conceptual approaches. The EU’s protection mechanism activated in the wake of Russia’s aggression in February 2022 has a temporary character. It aims to both facilitate sustenance and accommodation of Ukrainians (the majority being women and children), and at the same time envisions their quick return with the end of the war. In this situation the question of migrant integration as a long-term and more or less fixed state of belonging has to be considered against the possibility of home-making as a process of creating a safe, familiar, and controllable gendered space that does not need to be permanent, but nevertheless should not look like “stuckness” against one’s wishes. Even in a situation of great uncertainty it is necessary to think about not only the material, but also the psychological well-being of affected Ukrainians and the people around them.
This exploration of personal and collective memories of home among Ukrainian refugees as well as their ‘homing’ in the new environments where some shared pasts, recognizable historical triggers, and (post)colonial histories may be decoded and interpreted, will enrich the studies of home-making with the manifested focus on the right of historicity.
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Witnessing the War in Ukraine Summer Institute Organizers:
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Lund University, Sweden
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Warsaw, Poland
Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Dobra Wola Foundation, Poland
Ukrainian Oral History Association, Ukraine
Polish Oral History Association, Poland
Learn more about the WWSI here: https://www.ualberta.ca/canadian-inst...
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SO-CLOSE meeting in Lund, Sweden on December 14th 2022. Experts talk about challenges of digital storytelling for sharing the cultural heritage of forced migration. Dominika Kasprowicz, Director, Willa Decjusza, Krakow Kasia Ioffe,... more
SO-CLOSE meeting in Lund, Sweden on December 14th 2022.
Experts talk about challenges of digital storytelling for sharing the cultural heritage of forced migration.
Dominika Kasprowicz, Director, Willa Decjusza, Krakow
Kasia Ioffe, Willa Decjusza, Krakow
Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Lund University
Eleonora Narvselius, Senior Lecturer, Lund University
Experts talk about challenges of digital storytelling for sharing the cultural heritage of forced migration.
Dominika Kasprowicz, Director, Willa Decjusza, Krakow
Kasia Ioffe, Willa Decjusza, Krakow
Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Lund University
Eleonora Narvselius, Senior Lecturer, Lund University
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Інтерв'ю журналу "Коридор", Ася Сеніна 7 Листопада 2016. Елеонора Нарвселіус – дослідниця етнології, кандидатка філологічних наук, докторка філософії за спеціальністю Ethnic Studies (Університет Лінчопінга, Швеція), мешкає й працює у... more
Інтерв'ю журналу "Коридор", Ася Сеніна 7 Листопада 2016. Елеонора Нарвселіус – дослідниця етнології, кандидатка філологічних наук, докторка філософії за спеціальністю Ethnic Studies (Університет Лінчопінга, Швеція), мешкає й працює у Швеції. Елеонора – авторка книги " Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv: Narratives, Identity and Power " , досліджує проблематику колективної пам'яті в Центрально-Східній Європі, формування еліт, комерціалізації пам'яті. У жовтні пані Нарвселіус побувала з лекцією «Аромат пам'яті з присмаком ностальгії: сучасні тематичні ресторани та брендування Галичиною» в рамках проекту ПогранКульт: ГаліціяКульт у Харкові. KORYDOR поговорив із Елеонорою Нарвселіус про найцікавіші процеси, які відбуваються нині в українській культурі пам'яті й політиці жалю й ушанувань.
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The article analyses the contexts, arguments and paradoxes of thinking about cultural heritage in Sweden of the 2000s when the topic achieved broad societal relevance in traditional media, internet fora, political communication and... more
The article analyses the contexts, arguments and paradoxes of thinking about cultural heritage in Sweden of the 2000s when the topic achieved broad societal relevance in traditional media, internet fora, political communication and academic research. The discussion focuses on four themes: the normative criticism paradigm that has been increasingly influential in the heritage sector in recent years and the tensions and conflicts it provokes, recent heritage work on and with the until the last two decades silent ethnic minority Romani Travellers, the continuing media polemic around the Sweden Democrats and its heritage policies, and the heritage debate initiated by journalist and China expert Ola Wong in 2016. The analysis builds on projects and publications featuring heritage professionals, academics, NGO people and professionals with other kinds of cultural capital working in the heritage sector, as well as on illustrative debates and interviews in the mass media. The debates are often heavily polarized, interwoven with positions in other politically loaded issues such as globalization, migration and integration, and laden with questions of the legitimacy and authority of political and institutional actors.
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This volume collects selected contributions to the international conference Beyond Transition? New Directions in Eastern and Central European Studies, held in Lund on 2-4 October 2013. The conference emerged in cooperation between the... more
This volume collects selected contributions to the international conference Beyond Transition? New Directions in Eastern and Central European Studies, held in Lund on 2-4 October 2013. The conference emerged in cooperation between the Centre for European Studies at Lund University, the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University (Stockholm), with generous financial support from the Swedish Society for the Study of Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The event served as a follow-up conference to the 8th ICCEES World Congress, held in Stockholm in 2010. The conference encouraged participants from various academic fields and with different subregional focuses to go beyond the study of the post-Soviet states and the former socialist countries in Eastern and Central Europe in relation to their trajectory from the old system. It suggested that it might be more rewarding to take into account patterns of convergence and divergence between European countries on both sides of the former Iron Curtain facing the pressures and possibilities of globalisation. Consequently, all the papers in this volume in their own way, more or less explicitly, deal with cases where problems of change and continuity transgress the old East-West border under the impact of larger political, sociocultural and intellectual trends.
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The article analyses the contexts, arguments and paradoxes of thinking about cultural heritage in Sweden of the 2000s when the topic achieved broad societal relevance in traditional media, internet fora, political communication and... more
The article analyses the contexts, arguments and paradoxes of thinking about cultural heritage in Sweden of the 2000s when the topic achieved broad societal relevance in traditional media, internet fora, political communication and academic research. The discussion focuses on four themes: the normative criticism paradigm that has been increasingly influential in the heritage sector in recent years and the tensions and conflicts it provokes, recent heritage work on and with the until the last two decades silent ethnic minority Romani Travellers, the continuing media polemic around the Sweden Democrats and its heritage policies, and the heritage debate initiated by journalist and China expert Ola Wong in 2016. The analysis builds on projects and publications featuring heritage professionals, academics, NGO people and professionals with other kinds of cultural capital working in the heritage sector, as well as on illustrative debates and interviews in the mass media. The debates are of...
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Despite geographical proximity and comparable historical development since the fall of the Soviet Union, Lviv and Chernivtsi betray different approaches to commemorating the past. This might point to the existence of different cultures of... more
Despite geographical proximity and comparable historical development since the fall of the Soviet Union, Lviv and Chernivtsi betray different approaches to commemorating the past. This might point to the existence of different cultures of memory that sustain a narrative about acceptance or rejection of ethnic diversity. But the cultures of memory in the cities also have common characteristic, namely, contemporary urbanites form their attitudes towards the past not through personal experience and family transmission of past memories but through prosthetic memory, which relies on hearsay, media, literature, popular culture and the arts. When deliberate choice comes to the fore in building various identity projects, the work of stitching together contradictory historical representations is guided not so much by path-dependent logic of collective memory as by present-day expediency and power games of different mnemonic actors. Therefore, this paper argues that the most observable trend ...
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Om minneskultur i Lviv, Ukraina
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The study examines intellectual arguments detectable in the public debate on the thorny history of the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands. It focuses primarily on discourses generated by the Ukrainian (first and foremost, West Ukrainian) party... more
The study examines intellectual arguments detectable in the public debate on the thorny history of the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands. It focuses primarily on discourses generated by the Ukrainian (first and foremost, West Ukrainian) party of the dispute. As subordinated to the nation-centric historical accounts, but increasingly important theme opened for multiple uses, the historical diversity of the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands became an object of intellectual re-interpretation in Western Ukraine since the 2000s. Framing this intellectual asset in terms of multicultural heritage (bahatokul’turna spadshchyna) has signaled the effort of the Ukrainian intellectuals to inscribe the local—and, at the same time, transnational—past to a coherent national narrative. On the way, however, it proved to be that the multicultural “universes”—in particular, the Polish one—resist the seamless inclusion into the fabrics of Ukrainian-centric historical accounts due to unresolved memory conflicts ro...
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On 24 February, Russia invaded its neighbour, Ukraine. This has resulted in the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two. Millions have crossed Ukraine’s borders into neighbouring countries in the west, and many will continue... more
On 24 February, Russia invaded its neighbour, Ukraine. This has resulted in the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War Two. Millions have crossed Ukraine’s borders into neighbouring countries in the west, and many will continue on through Europe to get to their final destination in one of the Nordic countries.
Ukrainian refugees ought to be met by professional services with expertise and capabilities in many fields. Many of those who are responsible for planning and designing the services should have the latest knowledge about migration and integration issues, enabling them to plan and organise the refugees’ arrival and integration in the best way possible.
Since 2020, NordForsk has funded seven international research projects on migration and integration with researchers from all the Nordic countries and the UK. We invited these seven projects and one additional project that we funded in a previous call to submit tailor-made articles presenting results and analysis which could help us better understand the needs of Ukrainian refugees.
The articles are based on the results from the researchers’ own work on refugees and migrants in the Nordic countries and the UK. This research-based knowledge is presented in a popular way to provide valuable insight into how refugees think, feel, and should be met in order to facilitate their introduction to the Nordic societies.
Ukrainian refugees ought to be met by professional services with expertise and capabilities in many fields. Many of those who are responsible for planning and designing the services should have the latest knowledge about migration and integration issues, enabling them to plan and organise the refugees’ arrival and integration in the best way possible.
Since 2020, NordForsk has funded seven international research projects on migration and integration with researchers from all the Nordic countries and the UK. We invited these seven projects and one additional project that we funded in a previous call to submit tailor-made articles presenting results and analysis which could help us better understand the needs of Ukrainian refugees.
The articles are based on the results from the researchers’ own work on refugees and migrants in the Nordic countries and the UK. This research-based knowledge is presented in a popular way to provide valuable insight into how refugees think, feel, and should be met in order to facilitate their introduction to the Nordic societies.
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Про деконфедерацію у Сполучених Штатах Америки і про те, який це може мати стосунок до України
This book does not seek to examine proofs of betrayal or the legal base of accusations of disloyalty throughout history. Instead, it is geared to demonstrate how certain “formulas of betrayal” were formed, imposed, and exploited for the... more
This book does not seek to examine proofs of betrayal or the legal base
of accusations of disloyalty throughout history. Instead, it is geared to
demonstrate how certain “formulas of betrayal” were formed, imposed,
and exploited for the purpose of achieving specific political, moral,
and ideological goals in twentieth-century Europe. It contends that accusations of betrayal, acquittal, and withdrawal of the charges, and
sometimes even complete reversal of meaning of the act theretofore
considered treachery, are not invented at random. The comparative
approach applied within the volume makes it possible to observe how
certain patterns of betrayal emerge in a multitude of cultural and political
contexts across Europe.
of accusations of disloyalty throughout history. Instead, it is geared to
demonstrate how certain “formulas of betrayal” were formed, imposed,
and exploited for the purpose of achieving specific political, moral,
and ideological goals in twentieth-century Europe. It contends that accusations of betrayal, acquittal, and withdrawal of the charges, and
sometimes even complete reversal of meaning of the act theretofore
considered treachery, are not invented at random. The comparative
approach applied within the volume makes it possible to observe how
certain patterns of betrayal emerge in a multitude of cultural and political
contexts across Europe.
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This chapter aims to explore a controversial theme that emerged in the wake of the warfare, namely allusions to betrayal directed at Soviet forced laborers or, more exactly, female forced laborers. As persons with links to the enemy,... more
This chapter aims to explore a controversial theme that emerged in
the wake of the warfare, namely allusions to betrayal directed at Soviet
forced laborers or, more exactly, female forced laborers. As persons with
links to the enemy, after their return home they were encountered with
suspicion, insults and abuse. In this respect, they were not different
from a great number of their compatriots whom the Soviet authorities
regarded as unreliable subjects and possible collaborators. Soviet POWs,
repatriated Ostarbeiters, population of the occupied territories—practically
everyone who was exposed to German propaganda and had contacts
with Germans fell under suspicion of disloyalty. It should be noted
straight away that female Ostarbeiters were never directly accused of anything in the official discourse, where the word “betrayal” was not applied
to them. Arguably, this detail exposes the gendered nature of betrayal
which was ascribed by means of allusions, subtext, and innuendoes that
were decoded by the recipients, and subsequently applied in everyday
practices much more straightforwardly.
the wake of the warfare, namely allusions to betrayal directed at Soviet
forced laborers or, more exactly, female forced laborers. As persons with
links to the enemy, after their return home they were encountered with
suspicion, insults and abuse. In this respect, they were not different
from a great number of their compatriots whom the Soviet authorities
regarded as unreliable subjects and possible collaborators. Soviet POWs,
repatriated Ostarbeiters, population of the occupied territories—practically
everyone who was exposed to German propaganda and had contacts
with Germans fell under suspicion of disloyalty. It should be noted
straight away that female Ostarbeiters were never directly accused of anything in the official discourse, where the word “betrayal” was not applied
to them. Arguably, this detail exposes the gendered nature of betrayal
which was ascribed by means of allusions, subtext, and innuendoes that
were decoded by the recipients, and subsequently applied in everyday
practices much more straightforwardly.