Tourism as remembrance activity : the International gathering of military vehicles in a post-military base in Poland

• Authors: Dominika Czarnecka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article intends to explore the practices developed within the International Gathering of Military Vehicles “Caterpillars and Horseshoes” in Borne Sulinowo – a former military base in Poland. Focusing on this specific event, I attempt to demonstrate how tourism provides remembrance activities. Because all the practices mentioned in the text below have been established as a result of and in relation to the post-military base, it is also significant to examine how the tourist practices developed within the gathering are affected by the materiality of the site.

Keywords

EN

memorial; military object; Poland; post-military space; post-Soviet base; remembrance activity; tourism

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 106
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 463-490
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dominika Czarnecka

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic