Melanie Mroz
Biographic Data
| ID | 170743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Mroz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Mroz |
| SIGNATURE | MROZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4944-6543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Knowing My Way around" - The Role of Urban Spaces for Migrant Identity Content and Sense of Belonging in Germany
Sense of belonging (SoB) and identity content have been studied focusing on social relations, but, as we suggest, might also involve a spatial dimension. The present project set out to better understand the relationship between space, SoB and identity content in the context of relocation. The research consisted of qualitative semi-structured and go-along interviews with 36 external migrants who live in four different German cities: Berlin, Bremen…
Elemental World Cinema
Recent ecocritical strands of thought have proposed a conceptualisation of the environment on the basis of its elemental constitution rather than an amorphous 'nature' supposedly divorced from humans In this burgeoning 'elemental ecocriticism' , the classical elements -earth, air, fire and water -reappear as objects of sustained philosophical enquiry and as concrete entities with which to recalibrate our interaction with the environment in the so…
Earth After Death
Recent environmental turns in research on the Holocaust and the moving images produced in its aftermath have suggested the potential of earth to bear “eco-witness” to atrocity and signal sites of mass burial through alterations to the topsoil and vegetation. However, the conjunction between the elemental and the human that occurs when a violated body decomposes in the earth to become ‘humus’ indicates a particularly distressing point of “trouble”…
Elemental World Cinema
The Monument and the Sewer
Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał/Kanal (1957) was expected by many audience members finally to portray the ‘true’ history of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, a history that had been distorted by Poland’s Communist government. This article argues that the virtual sphere of cinema could enact particular commemorative practices, partly founded upon constructing the viewer as a witness to authentic events. My analysis of the film’s internal conflicts partly draws upon…
Signs and Meaning in the Decalogue
"Knowing My Way around" - The Role of Urban Spaces for Migrant Identity Content and Sense of Belonging in Germany
Sense of belonging (SoB) and identity content have been studied focusing on social relations, but, as we suggest, might also involve a spatial dimension. The present project set out to better understand the relationship between space, SoB and identity content in the context of relocation. The research consisted of qualitative semi-structured and go-along interviews with 36 external migrants who live in four different German cities: Berlin, Bremen…
Signs and Meaning in the Decalogue
The Monument and the Sewer
Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał/Kanal (1957) was expected by many audience members finally to portray the ‘true’ history of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, a history that had been distorted by Poland’s Communist government. This article argues that the virtual sphere of cinema could enact particular commemorative practices, partly founded upon constructing the viewer as a witness to authentic events. My analysis of the film’s internal conflicts partly draws upon…
Elemental World Cinema
Recent ecocritical strands of thought have proposed a conceptualisation of the environment on the basis of its elemental constitution rather than an amorphous 'nature' supposedly divorced from humans In this burgeoning 'elemental ecocriticism' , the classical elements -earth, air, fire and water -reappear as objects of sustained philosophical enquiry and as concrete entities with which to recalibrate our interaction with the environment in the so…
Earth After Death
Recent environmental turns in research on the Holocaust and the moving images produced in its aftermath have suggested the potential of earth to bear “eco-witness” to atrocity and signal sites of mass burial through alterations to the topsoil and vegetation. However, the conjunction between the elemental and the human that occurs when a violated body decomposes in the earth to become ‘humus’ indicates a particularly distressing point of “trouble”…
Elemental World Cinema
"Knowing My Way around" - The Role of Urban Spaces for Migrant Identity Content and Sense of Belonging in Germany
Sense of belonging (SoB) and identity content have been studied focusing on social relations, but, as we suggest, might also involve a spatial dimension. The present project set out to better understand the relationship between space, SoB and identity content in the context of relocation. The research consisted of qualitative semi-structured and go-along interviews with 36 external migrants who live in four different German cities: Berlin, Bremen…
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropocentrism (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)