Milieux de mémoire in Late Modernity Local Communities, Religion and Historical Politics
This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their traumatic experiences of the Second World War. Despite having access to many diverse memory frameworks typical of late modernity, these communities primarily function within religious memory frameworks. The book also traces how they reacte...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bern
Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
2019
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| Series: | Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics
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| Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This book shows how vernacular communities commemorate their traumatic experiences of the Second World War. Despite having access to many diverse memory frameworks typical of late modernity, these communities primarily function within religious memory frameworks. The book also traces how they reacted when their local histories were incorporated into the remembrance practices of the state. The authors draw on case studies of four vernacular communities, notably Kałków-Godów, Michniów, Jedwabne and Markowa, to argue that it is still possible in the Polish countryside to discover milieux de mémoire. At the same time, they show that the state not only uses local histories to bolster its moral capital in the international arena, but also in matters of domestic policy. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (298 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783631708316 9783653065091 9783631708309 9783631673003 b15596 |