Zielona plama Polski. Naturalizowanie krajobrazu mazurskiego w narracjach turystycznych
The Green Spot of Poland. Naturalization of the Masurian Landscape in Tourist Narratives

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the process of naturalization of Masuria in Polish contemporaryculture through the paradoxical naturalization of vegetation, and more broadly the nature ofthe region, understood as the construction of its naturalniess, timelessness and non-intrusioninto historical and geopolitical processes. This process is referred to earlier Polonizationefforts of the Masurian landscape. The author pays attention to the main changes in the attitude towards the Masurian greenery and the natural landscape on the example ofthe walking path around Lake Ołów in Ryn. Nature is presented as an element determiningthe identity of the place in the face of effective erosion of the Masurian identity in thecourse of geopolitical processes, supporting, from the second half of the twentieth century,the erasure of the memory of Prussian or German identity of these areas and sometimesdeliberately used for it, and at the same time sometimes constituting the only trace of thisidentity.

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