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Diversity in the East-Central European Borderlands

Memories, Cityscapes, People
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Built on up-to-date field material, this edited volume suggests an anthropological approach to the palimpsest-like milieus of Wrocław, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău. In these East-Central European borderline cities, the legacies of Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, and violent ethno-nationalism have been revisited in recent decades in search of profound moral reckoning and in response to the challenges posed by the (post-)transitional period. Present shapes and contents of these urban settings derive from combinations of fragmented material environments, cultural continuities and political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective memories about the contentious past, expressive architectural forms and less conspicuous meaning-making activities of human actors. In other words, they evolve from perpetual tensions between choices of the past and the burden of the past. A novel feature of this book is its multi-level approach to the analysis of engagements with the lost diversity in historical urban milieus full of post-war voids and ruptures. In particular, the collected studies test the possibility of combining the theoretical propositions of Memory Studies with broader conceptualizations of borderlands, cosmopolitan sociality, urban mythologies, and hybridity. The volume's contributors are Eleonora Narvselius, Bo Larsson, Natalia Otrishchenko, Anastasia Felcher, Juliet D. Golden, Hana Cervinkova, Paweł Czajkowski, Alexandr Voronovici, Barbara Pabjan, Nadiia Bureiko, Teodor Lucian Moga, and Gaelle Fisher.

Author Biography:

The editors: Dr. Eleonora Narvselius studied ethnology and ethnic studies in Lviv and Linköping. Since 2021, she is Associate Professor of Ethnology at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University. Her previous books include Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet Lviv: Narratives, Identity and Power (Lexington 2012) and the co-edited volume Traitors, Collaborators and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory: Formulas of Betrayal (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). Her papers have been published by, among other outlets, Slavic Review, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Carl Beck Papers and Nordisk Østforum. Narvselius is a member of the editorial team of the journal Ukraina Moderna. Dr. Julie Fedor is Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD in History at King’s College Cambridge. Fedor is, among others, the author of Russia and the Cult of State Security (Routledge 2011), co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity 2012), co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), and contributing co-editor of Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States (Routledge 2013) as well as War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). Since 2015, she is the General Editor of the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (www.jspps.eu).
Release date Australia
November 16th, 2021
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Alexandr Voronovici
  • Contributions by Anastasia Felcher
  • Contributions by Bo Larsson
  • Contributions by Hana Cervinikova
  • Contributions by Juliet D. Golden
  • Contributions by Natalia Otrishchenko
  • Contributions by Pawel Czajkowski
  • Edited by Eleonora Narvselius
  • Edited by Julie Fedor
  • Series edited by Andreas Umland
Edition
New edition
Pages
426
ISBN-13
9783838215235
Product ID
35095742

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