“In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device

This paper attempts to answer the questions of how present perception and conceptualizations of everyday life in the city recreate representations of the past and the image of a long demolished neighbourhood of a workers’ colony, and how this image is used as a “mnemonic device” when narrators seek...

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Main Authors: Petra Burzová, Ilona Dvořáková
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta 2019-01-01
Series:Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
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Online Access:https://studiaethnologicapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/Petra_Burzova_-_Ilona_Dvorakova_13-23.pdf
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description This paper attempts to answer the questions of how present perception and conceptualizations of everyday life in the city recreate representations of the past and the image of a long demolished neighbourhood of a workers’ colony, and how this image is used as a “mnemonic device” when narrators seek to respond to the perceived socio-spatial problems. We deal with what we call “oppressed memory” of a neighbourhood that does not exist in its “memory form” anymore, but is, though, lived as a communal memory space and used as a memory device to respond to the perceived current social and spatial problems of the city of Pilsen and beyond.
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spelling doaj.art-17013581cce74545a8d8d83dc4dea40c2022-12-22T00:27:56ZcesUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická FakultaStudia Ethnologica Pragensia1803-98122336-66992019-01-0111323“In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic devicePetra Burzová0 Ilona Dvořáková1Ústav etnologie Filozofické fakulty Univerzity KarlovyNárodní archivThis paper attempts to answer the questions of how present perception and conceptualizations of everyday life in the city recreate representations of the past and the image of a long demolished neighbourhood of a workers’ colony, and how this image is used as a “mnemonic device” when narrators seek to respond to the perceived socio-spatial problems. We deal with what we call “oppressed memory” of a neighbourhood that does not exist in its “memory form” anymore, but is, though, lived as a communal memory space and used as a memory device to respond to the perceived current social and spatial problems of the city of Pilsen and beyond.https://studiaethnologicapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/Petra_Burzova_-_Ilona_Dvorakova_13-23.pdfcollective memorycommunity of rememberingpilsenworkersnarrative identity
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“In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device
Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
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community of remembering
pilsen
workers
narrative identity
title “In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device
title_full “In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device
title_fullStr “In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device
title_full_unstemmed “In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device
title_short “In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device
title_sort in karlov we were like a family communal memory space as lived mnemonic device
topic collective memory
community of remembering
pilsen
workers
narrative identity
url https://studiaethnologicapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/11/Petra_Burzova_-_Ilona_Dvorakova_13-23.pdf
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