Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
The paper looks at the renaming of streets as a significant aspect of post-socialist change using an example of the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It discusses politics, processes and practices of (de-re)commemoration in street names, which reflect transformations of memory (remembering and forg...
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Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2022-12-01
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| description | The paper looks at the renaming of streets as a significant aspect of post-socialist change using an example of the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It discusses politics, processes and practices of (de-re)commemoration in street names, which reflect transformations of memory (remembering and forgetting), identity, heritage, power and resilience related to public space in a post-socialist city. Changing street names creates new connections between the past and the present and reflects political power struggles for control over contested space between various groups that tend to privatise their own history, heritage, memory, identity, places and symbols. The case of Banská Bystrica demonstrates strategies of the street renaming based on the decommunisation of names (done by restoration of the names from older periods or by introducing non-commemorative names), and on commemoration of names based primarily on local (or regional/national) heritage, events and personalities that might become areas of contested heritage. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c4f740b2fd344ad84926d3bd3a158d32022-12-22T04:42:20ZengResearch Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungarian Geographical Bulletin2064-50312064-51472022-12-0171440141710.15201/hungeobull.71.4.68170Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, SlovakiaAlexandra Bitušíková0Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech RepublicThe paper looks at the renaming of streets as a significant aspect of post-socialist change using an example of the city of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. It discusses politics, processes and practices of (de-re)commemoration in street names, which reflect transformations of memory (remembering and forgetting), identity, heritage, power and resilience related to public space in a post-socialist city. Changing street names creates new connections between the past and the present and reflects political power struggles for control over contested space between various groups that tend to privatise their own history, heritage, memory, identity, places and symbols. The case of Banská Bystrica demonstrates strategies of the street renaming based on the decommunisation of names (done by restoration of the names from older periods or by introducing non-commemorative names), and on commemoration of names based primarily on local (or regional/national) heritage, events and personalities that might become areas of contested heritage.https://ojs.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/8170street renamingurban spacememoryidentityheritagebanská bystricaslovakia |
| spellingShingle | Alexandra Bitušíková Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Hungarian Geographical Bulletin street renaming urban space memory identity heritage banská bystrica slovakia |
| title | Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia |
| title_full | Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia |
| title_fullStr | Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia |
| title_short | Transformations of place, memory and identity through urban place names in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia |
| title_sort | transformations of place memory and identity through urban place names in banska bystrica slovakia |
| topic | street renaming urban space memory identity heritage banská bystrica slovakia |
| url | https://ojs.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/8170 |
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