Barbara Törnquist-Plewa
Biographic Data
| ID | 159792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Törnquist-Plewa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Törnquist-Plewa |
| SIGNATURE | TÖRNQUIST-PLEWA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6548-2301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
After All These Years, Still Divided by Memories? East Central Europe and European Union Politics of Memory Twenty Years after the Enlargement
The article analyzes how central and eastern European members of the EU relate to the main nodes of the EU’s politics of memory, such as the first and second world wars, the Holocaust as Europe’s negative founding myth, Soviet Communism being equally as criminal as the Nazi regime, expulsions as a pan-European trauma, the legacy of colonialism, Europe as a continent of immigration, and Europe’s post-1945 success story. The author argues that mnem…
Slow Memory. Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe. Introduction
Postmigrant Talks
Creating Cultural Heritage for a Better Future. The case of the "District of Mutual Respect" in the Polish city of Wrocław
By applying the sociological concept of ‘emplacement’, this article analyses the creation of the ‘District of Mutual Respect’ in the old, neglected part of Wrocław (former German Breslau), a city which became Polish and lost its German population due to their forced migration after the Second World War. The District has in the last 20 years been transformed from slum to attractive environment and an important symbol of Wrocław’s new identity and …
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Narrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden
Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
Inawidespreadmodelofdemocratisation,theemergenceofaneconomically strongandaffluentmiddle-classwilleventuallyresultindemandsforpolitical and civic rights. Socio-economic emancipation and the acquirement of culturalandeducationalcapitalofthismiddlesegmentisthusexpectedtoengender a will for real political influence, respect for property rights, and better qualityofgovernment.However,whenaffluencetrickleddownfastinRussia duringthefirstpartofPutin'sru…
The transnational dynamics of local remembrance
This article presents an example of how the transnational production of memory is at work in a small Polish town that, prior to the Holocaust, was a “shtetl.” The author uses transnational optics to take an in-depth look at how local memories of Jews and the Holocaust are formed in this particular locality and discusses the effects of transnational mnemonic encounters. She highlights the multiscalarity of transnational processes as well as the co…
Disputed Memory
The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th century in the region. Written by an international group of scholars from a diversity of disciplines, the chapters approach memory disputes in methodolog…
Memory politics in contemporary Ukraine
Reporting from the events of the so-called ‘Euro-revolution’ in Ukraine 2013–2014, the Western media were prompt to point out the excessive use of national symbols, including those connected with the memory of the Ukrainian nationalist organizations ‘OUN’ and ‘UPA’, which for some periods of time had cooperated with Nazi Germany and were involved in the killing of civilians. By using a postcolonial perspective, the article aims to explain this ph…
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together interdisciplinary case studies conducted in Central and Eastern European cities, exploring how present-day inhabitants “remember” past i…
Whose Memory? Which Future
Rhetoric and the cultural trauma
This study deals with the historian Jan T Gross’ book Fear, published in 2006 in the United States and in 2008 in Poland. The book deserves special attention because it became one of the most discussed historical works in post-Communist Poland. In Fear, just as in his previous book Neighbors (2000), Gross challenged the Poles’ view of themselves as solely innocent victims of German Nazism and argued that anti-Semitism could and did lead them to k…
«Enade vi stod»? Postsovjetiska berättelser om andra världskriget i Vitryssland
Nationsbildningsprocesser i Karpaterna. Rusynerna och Andy Warhol
Memory politics in contemporary Ukraine
Reporting from the events of the so-called ‘Euro-revolution’ in Ukraine 2013–2014, the Western media were prompt to point out the excessive use of national symbols, including those connected with the memory of the Ukrainian nationalist organizations ‘OUN’ and ‘UPA’, which for some periods of time had cooperated with Nazi Germany and were involved in the killing of civilians. By using a postcolonial perspective, the article aims to explain this ph…
The transnational dynamics of local remembrance
This article presents an example of how the transnational production of memory is at work in a small Polish town that, prior to the Holocaust, was a “shtetl.” The author uses transnational optics to take an in-depth look at how local memories of Jews and the Holocaust are formed in this particular locality and discusses the effects of transnational mnemonic encounters. She highlights the multiscalarity of transnational processes as well as the co…
Creating Cultural Heritage for a Better Future. The case of the "District of Mutual Respect" in the Polish city of Wrocław
By applying the sociological concept of ‘emplacement’, this article analyses the creation of the ‘District of Mutual Respect’ in the old, neglected part of Wrocław (former German Breslau), a city which became Polish and lost its German population due to their forced migration after the Second World War. The District has in the last 20 years been transformed from slum to attractive environment and an important symbol of Wrocław’s new identity and …
Rhetoric and the cultural trauma
This study deals with the historian Jan T Gross’ book Fear, published in 2006 in the United States and in 2008 in Poland. The book deserves special attention because it became one of the most discussed historical works in post-Communist Poland. In Fear, just as in his previous book Neighbors (2000), Gross challenged the Poles’ view of themselves as solely innocent victims of German Nazism and argued that anti-Semitism could and did lead them to k…
Nationsbildningsprocesser i Karpaterna. Rusynerna och Andy Warhol
«Enade vi stod»? Postsovjetiska berättelser om andra världskriget i Vitryssland
Rhetoric and the cultural trauma
This study deals with the historian Jan T Gross’ book Fear, published in 2006 in the United States and in 2008 in Poland. The book deserves special attention because it became one of the most discussed historical works in post-Communist Poland. In Fear, just as in his previous book Neighbors (2000), Gross challenged the Poles’ view of themselves as solely innocent victims of German Nazism and argued that anti-Semitism could and did lead them to k…
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume brings together interdisciplinary case studies conducted in Central and Eastern European cities, exploring how present-day inhabitants “remember” past i…
Whose Memory? Which Future
Memory politics in contemporary Ukraine
Reporting from the events of the so-called ‘Euro-revolution’ in Ukraine 2013–2014, the Western media were prompt to point out the excessive use of national symbols, including those connected with the memory of the Ukrainian nationalist organizations ‘OUN’ and ‘UPA’, which for some periods of time had cooperated with Nazi Germany and were involved in the killing of civilians. By using a postcolonial perspective, the article aims to explain this ph…
The transnational dynamics of local remembrance
This article presents an example of how the transnational production of memory is at work in a small Polish town that, prior to the Holocaust, was a “shtetl.” The author uses transnational optics to take an in-depth look at how local memories of Jews and the Holocaust are formed in this particular locality and discusses the effects of transnational mnemonic encounters. She highlights the multiscalarity of transnational processes as well as the co…
Disputed Memory
The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th century in the region. Written by an international group of scholars from a diversity of disciplines, the chapters approach memory disputes in methodolog…
Narrating Otherness in Poland and Sweden
Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
Inawidespreadmodelofdemocratisation,theemergenceofaneconomically strongandaffluentmiddle-classwilleventuallyresultindemandsforpolitical and civic rights. Socio-economic emancipation and the acquirement of culturalandeducationalcapitalofthismiddlesegmentisthusexpectedtoengender a will for real political influence, respect for property rights, and better qualityofgovernment.However,whenaffluencetrickleddownfastinRussia duringthefirstpartofPutin'sru…
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Postmigrant Talks
Creating Cultural Heritage for a Better Future. The case of the "District of Mutual Respect" in the Polish city of Wrocław
By applying the sociological concept of ‘emplacement’, this article analyses the creation of the ‘District of Mutual Respect’ in the old, neglected part of Wrocław (former German Breslau), a city which became Polish and lost its German population due to their forced migration after the Second World War. The District has in the last 20 years been transformed from slum to attractive environment and an important symbol of Wrocław’s new identity and …
After All These Years, Still Divided by Memories? East Central Europe and European Union Politics of Memory Twenty Years after the Enlargement
The article analyzes how central and eastern European members of the EU relate to the main nodes of the EU’s politics of memory, such as the first and second world wars, the Holocaust as Europe’s negative founding myth, Soviet Communism being equally as criminal as the Nazi regime, expulsions as a pan-European trauma, the legacy of colonialism, Europe as a continent of immigration, and Europe’s post-1945 success story. The author argues that mnem…
Slow Memory. Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe. Introduction
Sociology (7 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (4 works) · Collective memory (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)