SÚČASNÉ OBRAZY SOCIALIZMU V (JEDNOM) LOKÁLNOM KONTEXTE: OD REFLEXIÍ KU KONTRANARATÍVOM

• Authors: Koza Beňová Kamila

Title variants

EN

Contemporary images of socialism in (one) local context: from reflections to counternarratives

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The study focuses on epistemological, theoretical-methodological, and ethical questions that touched on individual phases of the implementation of oral history, or biographical research, focused on the life histories of people who lived their adult life in the former Czechoslovakia. It pay attention to the specifics of the ethnological approach to the research of everyday life, the connection between the representation of the past in its current interpretations, and describes the possibilities and limits of the ethnological research of the past in the present. An essential factor in the interpretation and analysis of research data is the local context and the connection with a small industrial town that developed during the socialist era. The theoretical starting point of the research is the concept of memory, which is thematised from several points of view, while the moment of asymmetry between collective and individual memory is at the centre of analytical interest. The subject of the analysis are the so-called micro-stories that communicate the current view of an ordinary person on their daily life in the past, i.e. in socialism, which is viewed not only as a specific historical epoch, but also as a special type of culture. The chosen perspective is based on the thesis that the perception and experience of lived socialism at the local level can differ significantly from the official interpretation of historical events, while this narrative is recognized as dominant. The chosen ethnological perspective does not seek to reconstruct history; it also notes the role of emotions in the research process and opens up the possibilities of the social significance of biographical research in the present.

Keywords

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BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; NARRATOR; SOCIALISM; MEMORY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 21 - 44

Contributors

author

Koza Beňová Kamila

• Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici, Tajovského 40, 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9714-2491

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/EtnoRozpra.2022.29.2.02