Contemporary identity and memory in the borderlands of Poland and Germany

Resource Information

The work Contemporary identity and memory in the borderlands of Poland and Germany represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Contemporary identity and memory in the borderlands of Poland and Germany

Statement of responsibility

by Aleksandra Binicewicz

Creator

• Binicewicz, Aleksandra

Subject

• Borderlands -- Germany
• Poland -- Social conditions
• Identity (Psychology) -- Germany
• Germany -- Social conditions
• Collective memory -- Germany
• Identity (Psychology) -- Poland
• Collective memory -- Poland
• Borderlands -- Poland

Language

• eng
• pol
• pol
• eng

Summary

The book analyses issues associated with the contemporary and memory in the Polish-German borderlands a complex, multidimensional cultural and geographic area. The first section of the book, which focuses on contemporary issues, is divided into three parts: namely, a theoretical body, records of conversations with the inhabitants of the borderlands who are engaged in social activities, and records of workshops and conversations that brought together teenage inhabitants of the borderlands. Close cooperation with the inhabitants of two borderland towns resulted in several interesting perspectives on the borderlands, which are seen as a physical space, as well as a mental, intimate, close, and sometimes frustrating space subject to micro- and macro-scale transformations. In this book, the borderlands are viewed from these two perspectives. The micro-scale, is marked out by the individual experience of the inhabitants of the borderlands, and the macro-scale by the institutional framework established for the purpose of constructing an integrated community on the border.--

Assigning source

Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

943.8057-C

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

Text in English and Polish

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography