I Remember... Of Social Construction of Memory of the City Dwellers in the Western and Northern Territories on the Example of Wrocław Cover Image

Pamiętam, że... O społecznej konstrukcji pamięci mieszkańców miast Ziem Zachodnich i Północnych na przykładzie Wrocławia
I Remember... Of Social Construction of Memory of the City Dwellers in the Western and Northern Territories on the Example of Wrocław

Author(s): Kamilla Biskupska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: social memory; sites of memory; discourse analysis; identity; the Western and Northern territories; Wrocław

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this article is to present topics of social memory, which, on one hand, are based on the personal, everyday experience of an individual, and on the other hand, are incorporated into a socially negotiated framework of collective memory. The article is also a part of the discussion on sites of memory and their possible content – going beyond museums, monuments, commemorative plaques or cemeteries that maintain the collective memory – implemented in everyday life of an individual. The subject of the analyses is the social memory of the people living in Wrocław, their construction of social worlds based on a space which is culturally burdened with the “memory of the absent”.

  • Issue Year: 19/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 71-83
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish