Współczesne autoidentyfikacje mieszkańców Zaolzia

• Authors: Katarzyna Marcol

Title variants

EN

Contemporary self-identificatons of Zaolzie residents

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

For the residents of Cieszyn Silesia, especially Czech, the establishment of national boundaries along the course of the Olza River in 1920, meant that they had to form a new picture of the world and determine their own place in the community, which also had to be redefined. For Zaolzie residents, the process of constructing their own identity depends on mechanisms of competition, negotiation and power (media, education and administration). It also is a consequence of the recognition of the boundary as something natural and “ever” existent. The clash of different self-identifications is seen on the symbolic level, especially linguistic.

Keywords

EN

Cieszyn Silesia; frontier; self-identification; identity

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Pages: 240-250

Dates

published

2015-02-20

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Marcol