Browsing by Subject "collective memory"

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Pamięć o przeszłości w kulturze śląskiej
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2014) Szmeja, Maria
Silesia is a borderland area where Polish, Czech, and German people have lived for years. The culture of region has been under the influence of these nations. Now the majority of Silesia belongs to Poland. The question is, how has the Silesian group been referred to the past and how have they presented their culture? The region’s past is painted by activists as being mainly Silesian – the nation apparently not existing. Literature, films, and memories generally accentuate their Silesian character. The local dialect, local customs and everything which is other than Polish are emphasised. E. Said’s concept may be used: there are two cultures in one territory, one being dominant and the other local. The dominant cultures – the German and the Polish – are wiped away from the past and emphasis is placed on the local culture. On the Internet, Facebook, in the local press and television a new picture of the region is being constructed. People learn and remind themselves of how to speak their language, the right words to use and how to behave in certain situations. A return to their own culture is largely a rejection of the higher culture in favour of a popular culture. Actions undertaken to create a Silesian nation refer to that cultural distinction.
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Pamięć zbiorowa w publicznym dyskursie : dyskusja internetowa sąsiadujących z sobą grup regionalnych
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2010) Szmeja, Maria
Official history at school manuals and in scientific publications presented by dominant group is very often questioned by minority groups. Their interpretation of bygone events usually based on oral history. They believed that history transmitted directly in group is more »authentic«, contrary to the offi cial which is more ideological. I went through internet discussion concerning historical background of two neighboring groups. They live on South-West of country, but during the division of Poland in 1792 they were incorporated to different states. One of them – Silesians were included to Prussia, the other group to Russian Empire. The collective memory of these groups were formed in different circumstances and now descendant of these group recall history in different way. They also presented another attitudes toward offi cial history. Nowadays, because of political reason, these groups live in one administration unit. In communist time, group of Russian background was the ruling one. Now Silesians are more influential in social life. What is interesting, both group used history in very instrumental way. The internet discussion shows how both group used their history to substantiate symbolic domination, how they invent their historical position. Discussion contains past events, commemoration of heroes (monuments, name of street), right to use dialect.
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Ukraińcy grekokatolicy i Polacy mariawici wśród Polaków rzymskich katolików. Lokalne zróżnicowanie społeczne i mechanizmy jego utrzymywania w perspektywie porównawczej
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2014) Herman, Aleksandra
The aim of the analysis is to compare the local social differentiation in two culturally heterogeneous communities: 1) two-denominational and 2) two-denominational and two-national. The study focused on local mechanisms of the maintenance of differentiation. Comparative approach allowed capture of contextual conditions. The study included the areas of life where the intersection of the private and public spheres occurs. It was found that local mechanisms maintaining the differentiation lead to the phenomenon of bestowing public significance to private choices or even to sanctioning them by the public opinion. For this reason, the analysis focuses on the following areas of local social life: the genesis of local divisions and its social memory, marriage selection, political power and schools. Among the conclusions it should be noted that the depth of social division is not determined by the multiplication of differences but rather by the origin of divisions and social memory. There is larger toleration of the »mixed« identity (of the nuclear family or even of individuals) in the community of two-dimensional social diversity but with the shared experience of uprooting (among minority and majority). The research has confirmed better political minority self-organization, which can then affect political mobilisation of the majority. Finally, a way of institutionalization of differentiation in local schools (different ways of segregation) plays a significant role in the socialization to the local dualism.