Making Sense of the Past: (Re)constructing the Local Memorial Landscape in a Post-Soviet Base in Poland
Abstract
The article focuses on (re)constructing the local memorial landscape in a post-Soviet military base in Poland and the process of forging the local identity of its new inhabitants in the years 1993–2015. These processes, which occurred after the withdrawal of Russian Federation forces from the base and the establishment of a civilian town, find their reflection in the urban space of Borne Sulinowo and are written into a broader context of state policies and national debates about the past. The aim of the article is to present how the initiative in these processes has gradually shifted from the national level to the local, causing fragmentation and pluralisation of the collective memory. In this context certain significance can be attributed to the need to comply with EU standards, and to the progress of commercialisation of the past related to the development of tourism.- Making Sense of the Past. (Re)constructing of the Local Memorial Landscape in the Post-Soviet Base in Poland
- Making Sense of the Past. (Re)constructing of the Local Memorial Landscape in the Post-Soviet Base in Poland
- Making Sense of the Past. (Re)constructing of the Local Memorial Landscape in the Post-Soviet Base in Poland
- Making Sense of the Past. (Re)constructing of the Local Memorial Landscape in the Post-Soviet Base in Poland
- Making Sense of the Past. (Re)constructing of the Local Memorial Landscape in the Post-Soviet Base in Poland
- Making Sense of the Past. (Re)constructing of the Local Memorial Landscape in the Post-Soviet Base in Poland
- Making Sense of the Past. (Re)constructing of the Local Memorial Landscape in the Post-Soviet Base in Poland
Keywords
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, the author(s) and users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) under the following conditions: 1. they must attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor, 2. they may not use this contribution for commercial purposes, 3. they may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
Authors retain the following rights:
- copyright, and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
- the right to use the substance of the article in future own works, including lectures and books,
- the right to reproduce the article for own purposes, provided the copies are not offered for sale,
- the right to self-archive the article.
