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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Main Author:	Wyss, Johana
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Central European University Press 2026
Subjects:	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
Online Access:	https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109916
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