Ewa Ochman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4282220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ewa Ochman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ewa |
| FAMILY NAME | Ochman |
| SIGNATURE | OCHMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2596-7800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public Responses to the Renaming of Commemorative Street Names in Post-Communist Poland: Daily Lives, Experiences of Change and Sense of Place
The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe did not bring about widespread destruction of the material heritage of communist dictatorships in the region. In fact, given that – on the whole – public acceptance of the regime change has been high, the process of de-commemoration has been more contested than anticipated. This paper focuses on the process of de-commemoration after the fall of communism in Poland. It examines urban residents’ responses…
The Legacies of Transition, Street Renaming and the Material Heritage of Communist Dictatorship in Poland
The fall of communism in Eastern Europe did not bring about a radical and immediate destruction of the material heritage of communist dictatorships in the region. In fact, the process of de-commemoration has been more contested and more protracted than had been anticipated. Thus, what warrants a closer consideration is why this is the case since on the whole public acceptance of the regime change has been very high. This paper considers the case …
Whose Cosmopolitanism?: Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents
The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitan…
Why is Poland Unable to Celebrate Victories? “The Miracle on the Vistula,” a Century Later
Poland’s preoccupation with the tragic past and the uses of that past in the construction of national identity have been the subject of many scholarly enquiries. However, what interests me here is how memories of triumph are made relevant to national mythmaking in a nation whose memory culture is based primarily on victims’ memories. I explore what happens to Poland’s moments of glory and where the victories are located in the new commemorative h…
Jewish space in contemporary Poland
When and why is the forgotten past recovered? The Battle of Warsaw, 1920 and the role of local actors in the production of memory
Memory scholars mostly agree that although social memory is culturally constructed, political and institutional actors encounter various constraints when adapting the past to their group’s needs and values. The aim of this article is to revisit this old question of the malleability and persistence of the past but in the context of the intensive memory production that emerged during a period of rapid change in post-communist transitional states. F…
Polish Witnesses to the Shoah
Soviet war memorials and the re-construction of national and local identities in post-communist Poland
This article proposes to look afresh at the legacies of communism in urban spaces in post-1989 Poland. Specifically, it investigates the fate of Red Army monuments and explores how these public spaces have been used in the multifaceted and multileveled process of post-communist identity formation. The article suggests that Red Army monuments constitute sites for the articulation of new narratives about the country's past and future which are no l…
Commemorating the Soviet Deportations of 1945 and Community-Building in Post-communist Upper Silesia
This article focuses on the remembrance of the deportations of Silesians to the Soviet Union in 1945, undertaken in Upper Silesia, Poland, after the collapse of communism. It explores the relationship between local elite-sponsored official remembrance of the deportations and the formation of regional identity in the context of the Upper Silesia's borderland locality and the post-war population movement. The article also investigates the role of p…
Municipalities and the Search for the Local Past: Fragmented Memory of the Red Army in Upper Silesia
In administratively decentralized Poland it is the self-governing and revived municipality that is in charge of historical memory. While urban centers need to respond to a historical heritage that impacts their socioeconomic future, local authorities emerge as active constructors of commemorative practices. To connect with their electorate and define the relationship between the municipality and its citizens, not only in terms of citizens' rights…
The Search for Legitimacy in Post-Martial Law Poland: The Case of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
This article focuses on the motives and aims behind the exploitation of the Polish-Jewish past undertaken by the communist establishment in the context of the lack of legitimacy of General Jaruzelski's government, its rivalry with the Catholic Church and democratic opposition, and the economic crises of the 1980s. Using the communist regime's response to Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah in 1985 as a case study, the article examines the military regim…
Municipalities and the Search for the Local Past: Fragmented Memory of the Red Army in Upper Silesia
In administratively decentralized Poland it is the self-governing and revived municipality that is in charge of historical memory. While urban centers need to respond to a historical heritage that impacts their socioeconomic future, local authorities emerge as active constructors of commemorative practices. To connect with their electorate and define the relationship between the municipality and its citizens, not only in terms of citizens' rights…
When and why is the forgotten past recovered? The Battle of Warsaw, 1920 and the role of local actors in the production of memory
Memory scholars mostly agree that although social memory is culturally constructed, political and institutional actors encounter various constraints when adapting the past to their group’s needs and values. The aim of this article is to revisit this old question of the malleability and persistence of the past but in the context of the intensive memory production that emerged during a period of rapid change in post-communist transitional states. F…
Soviet war memorials and the re-construction of national and local identities in post-communist Poland
This article proposes to look afresh at the legacies of communism in urban spaces in post-1989 Poland. Specifically, it investigates the fate of Red Army monuments and explores how these public spaces have been used in the multifaceted and multileveled process of post-communist identity formation. The article suggests that Red Army monuments constitute sites for the articulation of new narratives about the country's past and future which are no l…
The Legacies of Transition, Street Renaming and the Material Heritage of Communist Dictatorship in Poland
The fall of communism in Eastern Europe did not bring about a radical and immediate destruction of the material heritage of communist dictatorships in the region. In fact, the process of de-commemoration has been more contested and more protracted than had been anticipated. Thus, what warrants a closer consideration is why this is the case since on the whole public acceptance of the regime change has been very high. This paper considers the case …
The Search for Legitimacy in Post-Martial Law Poland: The Case of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
This article focuses on the motives and aims behind the exploitation of the Polish-Jewish past undertaken by the communist establishment in the context of the lack of legitimacy of General Jaruzelski's government, its rivalry with the Catholic Church and democratic opposition, and the economic crises of the 1980s. Using the communist regime's response to Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah in 1985 as a case study, the article examines the military regim…
Commemorating the Soviet Deportations of 1945 and Community-Building in Post-communist Upper Silesia
This article focuses on the remembrance of the deportations of Silesians to the Soviet Union in 1945, undertaken in Upper Silesia, Poland, after the collapse of communism. It explores the relationship between local elite-sponsored official remembrance of the deportations and the formation of regional identity in the context of the Upper Silesia's borderland locality and the post-war population movement. The article also investigates the role of p…
Municipalities and the Search for the Local Past: Fragmented Memory of the Red Army in Upper Silesia
In administratively decentralized Poland it is the self-governing and revived municipality that is in charge of historical memory. While urban centers need to respond to a historical heritage that impacts their socioeconomic future, local authorities emerge as active constructors of commemorative practices. To connect with their electorate and define the relationship between the municipality and its citizens, not only in terms of citizens' rights…
Soviet war memorials and the re-construction of national and local identities in post-communist Poland
This article proposes to look afresh at the legacies of communism in urban spaces in post-1989 Poland. Specifically, it investigates the fate of Red Army monuments and explores how these public spaces have been used in the multifaceted and multileveled process of post-communist identity formation. The article suggests that Red Army monuments constitute sites for the articulation of new narratives about the country's past and future which are no l…
Polish Witnesses to the Shoah
When and why is the forgotten past recovered? The Battle of Warsaw, 1920 and the role of local actors in the production of memory
Memory scholars mostly agree that although social memory is culturally constructed, political and institutional actors encounter various constraints when adapting the past to their group’s needs and values. The aim of this article is to revisit this old question of the malleability and persistence of the past but in the context of the intensive memory production that emerged during a period of rapid change in post-communist transitional states. F…
Jewish space in contemporary Poland
Why is Poland Unable to Celebrate Victories? “The Miracle on the Vistula,” a Century Later
Poland’s preoccupation with the tragic past and the uses of that past in the construction of national identity have been the subject of many scholarly enquiries. However, what interests me here is how memories of triumph are made relevant to national mythmaking in a nation whose memory culture is based primarily on victims’ memories. I explore what happens to Poland’s moments of glory and where the victories are located in the new commemorative h…
Whose Cosmopolitanism?: Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontents
The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitan…
The Legacies of Transition, Street Renaming and the Material Heritage of Communist Dictatorship in Poland
The fall of communism in Eastern Europe did not bring about a radical and immediate destruction of the material heritage of communist dictatorships in the region. In fact, the process of de-commemoration has been more contested and more protracted than had been anticipated. Thus, what warrants a closer consideration is why this is the case since on the whole public acceptance of the regime change has been very high. This paper considers the case …
Public Responses to the Renaming of Commemorative Street Names in Post-Communist Poland: Daily Lives, Experiences of Change and Sense of Place
The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe did not bring about widespread destruction of the material heritage of communist dictatorships in the region. In fact, given that – on the whole – public acceptance of the regime change has been high, the process of de-commemoration has been more contested than anticipated. This paper focuses on the process of de-commemoration after the fall of communism in Poland. It examines urban residents’ responses…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (9 works) · History (8 works) · Communism (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works)