Emotions and memory. Contribution to the “emotional geography” based on the interviews with inhabitants of historic workers’ settlements of Będzin and Cover Image

Emocje i pamięć Przyczynek do „geografii emocjonalnej” w ramach analizy wywiadów mieszkańców osiedli postrobotniczych w Będzinie i Rudzie Śląskiej
Emotions and memory. Contribution to the “emotional geography” based on the interviews with inhabitants of historic workers’ settlements of Będzin and

Author(s): Monika Gnieciak
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: urban studies; worker’s estate; emotional geographies; postindustrial landscape

Summary/Abstract: The present article describes memories and stories recalled by the residents of postindustrial estates of Będzin and Ruda Śląska. The told stories are about spaces, landscapes and places that have changed during the inhabitants lives. Analysis of interviews is focused particularly on residental areas and workplaces, but also includes some other places which came up during research and are significant for the interviewees. It is of interest how the interrelations between personal lives and estates transformations reported in interviews can be described using the perspective of emotional geography.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 60-89
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Polish