THE ONGOING EXISTENCE OF PARTITION BORDERS IN PRACTICES,  OLLECTIONS AND LANDSCAPE. IN SEARCH OF COMMON POINTS OF SOCIOLOGY, MUSEOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Cover Image

TRWANIE GRANIC ROZBIOROWYCH W PRAKTYKACH, KOLEKCJACH I KRAJOBRAZIE. W POSZUKIWANIU PUNKTÓW STYCZNYCH SOCJOLOGII, MUZEOLOGII I ARCHITEKTURY KRAJOBRAZU
THE ONGOING EXISTENCE OF PARTITION BORDERS IN PRACTICES, OLLECTIONS AND LANDSCAPE. IN SEARCH OF COMMON POINTS OF SOCIOLOGY, MUSEOLOGY AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Author(s): Agata Gajdek, Dominik Porczyński
Subject(s): Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Architecture, Environmental Geography
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: phantom border; borderscaping; collective identity; collection; cultural landscape;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the phenomenon of the so called phantom borders – former political borders, presently non‑existing, however influencing the social environment. Concentrating on practices, collections and landscape we attempt to integrate three disciplines: sociology, museology and landscape architecture to study today’s manifestations of these boundaries separating the territories of Poland for 123 years. Recognizing the perspective of borderscaping we assume (phantom) borders as complex and multilevel phenomena thus requiring holistic approach reflected in the application of aforementioned disciplines during intensive ethnographic studies of former Kingdom of Poland and Kingdom of Galicia borderland communities. We argue that successful integration of methods can be based on the assumption of materiality as a common element of interactions, collections and space, making possible – in the second step – a study of meanings invoked by these tangible components and then a recreation of material‑symbolic systems shaping everyday life and festive times of phantom‑borderlands communities.

  • Issue Year: 16/2019
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 311-339
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish