About Women in Conflicts and Wars: Theories of Violence and Collective Memory

• Authors: Kuźma Inga B. , Pietrzak Edyta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the subject of relations between theories of violence and the category of collective memory in relation to women’s war stories. The text introduces the issue of war and conflict, understanding the theory of violence, the category of collective memory and female war narratives, as well as the ways of their political interpretation. The interpretation is crucial because of method used in the research, meaning hermeneutics, but also because of the, presented here, perspective of polyphony.

Keywords

EN

collective memory; violence; herstory

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 1 (48)
• Pages: 49-64

Contributors

author

Kuźma Inga B.

• University of Łódź (Poland)

author

Pietrzak Edyta

• Łódź University of Technology (Poland)

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