ACTIVE CITIZENS AND THE HISTORICAL IDENTITY OF A CITY: THE CASE OF BRATISLAVA-PODHRADIE

• Authors: Daniel Luther
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Social changes after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989 and the emergence of foreign companies, investors and development groups led to the rapid building development of the city, which offers an opportunity for an urban-ethnological analysis of the transformation of urban spaces. The author of this paper studied a case related to the transformation of a space considered by the city inhabitants as historically important. He discusses the issues of civic activism in the context of preservation of the historical identity of the city. He seeks answers to the following questions – What kind of processes are in conflict at the macro-level? What is the role of cultural aspects in these processes? What kind of collective identity do active members of a civic group share and demonstrate? The author seeks to grasp the issues of active citizenship through motivations and reasons, particular areas of interest, actual results, and effectiveness of civil activism. He concludes that interventions to preserve the historical identity of urban spaces have mobilised a part of the public and have become one of the incentives of growing civil engagement in the post-socialist period

Keywords

EN

CITY; SPACE; MEMORY PLACE; CIVIC ACTIVITIES; NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; BRATISLAVA; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 355 – 365

Contributors

author

Daniel Luther

• Institute of Ethnology SAS, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic