Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia
This study offers an ethnographic exploration of how memory, identity, and history are contested in the city of Opava and the surrounding Hlu.ín area – former sites of Austrian and Prussian rule shaped by post-imperial legacies, displacement, and shifting national narratives. Drawing on extensive fi...
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| description | This study offers an ethnographic exploration of how memory, identity, and history are contested in the city of Opava and the surrounding Hlu.ín area – former sites of Austrian and Prussian rule shaped by post-imperial legacies, displacement, and shifting national narratives. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book investigates how local communities navigate dominant Czech nationalism and vernacular Silesian identities through memorials, oral histories, cultural expression, and tourism. Chapters explore themes such as Wehrmacht legacies, linguistic politics, and the branding of Silesian cuisine, revealing how cultural memory is selectively preserved, silenced, or commodified. Through rich case studies, the book highlights the tensions between official discourses and grassroots memory practices, showing how identity in this Central European borderland is continually reconstructed. Blending theoretical depth with lived experience, this study offers new insight into the role of collective memory in shaping belonging in post-imperial, post-socialist Europe. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1712802026-02-12T05:06:03Z Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia Wyss, Johana Collective Memory Ethnonationalism Identity Negotiation Central-Eastern Europe Czech Silesia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFN Nationalism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology This study offers an ethnographic exploration of how memory, identity, and history are contested in the city of Opava and the surrounding Hlu.ín area – former sites of Austrian and Prussian rule shaped by post-imperial legacies, displacement, and shifting national narratives. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book investigates how local communities navigate dominant Czech nationalism and vernacular Silesian identities through memorials, oral histories, cultural expression, and tourism. Chapters explore themes such as Wehrmacht legacies, linguistic politics, and the branding of Silesian cuisine, revealing how cultural memory is selectively preserved, silenced, or commodified. Through rich case studies, the book highlights the tensions between official discourses and grassroots memory practices, showing how identity in this Central European borderland is continually reconstructed. Blending theoretical depth with lived experience, this study offers new insight into the role of collective memory in shaping belonging in post-imperial, post-socialist Europe. 2026-02-12T05:06:02Z 2026-02-12T05:06:02Z 2026-02-11T13:19:11Z 2026 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109916 9789633867921 9789633867914 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171280 eng Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109916/2/9789633867914.pdf Central European University Press Central European University Press 10.5117/9789633867907 10.5117/9789633867907 49dd7c40-8e8d-4f66-b9e6-2895b535a0e0 9789633867921 9789633867914 Central European University Press 220 open access |
| spellingShingle | Collective Memory Ethnonationalism Identity Negotiation Central-Eastern Europe Czech Silesia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFN Nationalism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology Wyss, Johana Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia |
| title | Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia |
| title_full | Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia |
| title_fullStr | Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia |
| title_short | Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia |
| title_sort | negotiating identity and collective memory in czech silesia |
| topic | Collective Memory Ethnonationalism Identity Negotiation Central-Eastern Europe Czech Silesia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFN Nationalism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology |
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