“In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device

• Authors: Burzová Petra , Dvořáková Ilona
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper attempts to answer the questions of how present perception and conceptualizations of everyday life in the city recreate representations of the past and the image of a long demolished neighbourhood of a workers’ colony, and how this image is used as a “mnemonic device” when narrators seek to respond to the perceived socio-spatial problems. We deal with what we call “oppressed memory” of a neighbourhood that does not exist in its “memory form” anymore, but is, though, lived as a communal memory space and used as a memory device to respond to the perceived current social and spatial problems of the city of Pilsen and beyond.

Keywords

EN

collective memory; community of remembering Pilsen; workers; narrative identity

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 13-23

Contributors

author

Burzová Petra

• Ústav etnologie Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy

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Dvořáková Ilona

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