Post-communist city text in Košice, Slovakia as a liminal landscape

• Authors: Brett R. Chloupek

Abstracts

EN

During the communist period in Slovakia (1948-1989), street toponyms and monuments were a few of the many realms of ideological infusion by the communist government. Renaming streets and establishing monuments in honor of local and international socialist figures was intended to have an aggregate efect on public consciousness in a way that helped legitimize the political rule of the communist regime. However, because the nature of socialist commemorations is fundamentally more complex that those of other competing ideologies like nationalist movements, these commemorations took on complex and sometimes contradictory meanings in the public memory that, in some cases, cause them to persist to this day. This paper utilizes Turner's (1975) concept of 'liminality' to examine elements of city text like toponyms and statues in the eastern Slovak city of Košice to demonstrate why many of these communist-era elements of city text remain as leftover landscapes of the communist period.

Keywords

EN

Toponyms; liminality; Slovakia; Košice; city text; communism

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 71-75

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Brett R. Chloupek

• Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, MO USA

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2019-0009

Biblioteka Nauki

2135541