Remembering the German Past in the Czech Lands: A Key Moment Between Communicative and Cultural Memory

Spalová, Barbora

doi:10.1080/02757206.2016.1182521

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“…Na ta način država ostaja moralno nedotaknjena s poudarjanjem svoje vloge žrtve. Ta percepcija se ni drastično spremenila še danes, ko nemška zgodovina še vedno ni integrirana v češki spomin, sploh ne v primerjavi z veliko bolj javnim spominom na holokavst (Spalová 2017).…”

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V tišini spomina: »eksodus« in Istra

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2021

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Delo se skozi izkušnje in spomine različnih posameznikov /.../ predvsem sprašuje o prostovoljnosti migracij iz obalnih mest in širše Primorske po letu 1945. /.../ Nakaže, kako je vsakokratna »prostovoljna« odločitev bila dejansko družbeno-zgodovinsko, politično-ekonomsko in še kako drugače pogojena. /…/ Enako pomembna je tudi ugotovitev, da »nihče ni čist«, da je lahko tako vsak posameznik kot vsaka (denimo nacionalna) skupnost vedno obenem krvnik in žrtev, a da ravno prepoznanje tega, kot tudi priznavanje svoje in bolečine drugega lahko šele omogočita spravo in sobivanje.

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V tišini spomina: »eksodus« in Istra

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“…Most witnesses already died and those who witnessed or heard about it from their older relatives were not particularly proud of this part of their history. The reluctance to talk about this sensitive topic seems to be part of a larger project of silencing the memories related to the Germans who lived in Czechoslovakia before 1945 (see Spalová 2016). There is little interest to bring the uncanny and 'pollute' presence via inappropriate 'temporal placement' (cf.…”

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Magnetism of strangeness: Silenced histories of landscapes

Sosna

2021

History and Anthropology

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Why do certain parts of landscape become places for waste disposal? This simple question seems to be easy to answer given the existence of sophisticated tools for formal modelling of a range of environmental, economic, social, and political variables which are supposed to minimize risk, cost, and disequity. There are, however, more subtle factors that shape waste disposal and its inscription in landscape. Using examples of two Czech landfills and drawing upon my ethnographic research of wastescapes, I examine how history, economic interests, social practices, events, material indeterminacies, and multispecies encounters took part in the transformation of these places into loci of 'strangeness'. Using a metaphor of magnetism I refocus our attention to a capacity of strange entities such as garbage, rubble, military waste, dead bodies, animal farms, and shooting ranges to attract each other along a spatiotemporal continuum. I argue that strangeness sticks to places and tends to perpetuate itself through a series of 'magnetic' relations over time. This magnetism stems from the human propensity to classify and dispose of entities whose open-endedness is dangerous and must be controlled through placement. While this process of placement is often imagined as a management of absence, I point to a dialectical relationship to the opposite category of presence as a critical source of magnetism. Waste management, then, becomes envisioned as part of a more general social process that keeps the world meaningful.

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New Settlers as Implicated Subjects: Case Study of Collective Amnesia in Czech Silesia

Wyss

2023

Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience

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Remembering the German Past in the Czech Lands: A Key Moment Between Communicative and Cultural Memory

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

V tišini spomina: »eksodus« in Istra

V tišini spomina: »eksodus« in Istra

Magnetism of strangeness: Silenced histories of landscapes

New Settlers as Implicated Subjects: Case Study of Collective Amnesia in Czech Silesia

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