When the Orthodox Went Away
Histories of Displacement and Extermination on the Polish/Belarusian Border
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2430751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aimée Joyce (0000-0003-4248-4704, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 427-450 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anq.2019.0021 |
| OpenAlex | W2962966213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article asserts that the current rise of right wing nationalism in Poland utilizes a set of nested historical erasures and silences. As Trouillot demonstrates, all history making is about selective acts of remembering and forgetting, and close attention to specific “unthinkable” histories reveals how power infuses the process of history making (1995:29). In the Polish case, the authorized historical record produces a homogeneous model of Polish identity by excluding specific histories of dispossession and destruction. Here, I focus on two places that relate to the horrors of Operation Vistula and the Holocaust. I begin by introducing these two silent spaces which trouble a small town on the eastern Polish border. The article moves first to explore how local people engage and evoke these silent spirits via the fragmented and intricate materiality of these haunted spaces and through acts of remembrance and forgetting. I argue that these practices are an attempt to negotiate a complex multi-ethnic history of conflict and cohesion. Yet they also reveal that some conflicts are more unsayable than others. Finally, the article demonstrates the different qualities of silence around these two historical atrocities. It draws on this difference to understand how local memory interacts with, and is undermined by, the historical narrative espoused by the current government
Aesthetics · Art · Forgetting · Literature · Materiality (auditing) · Narrative · Nationalism · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
Neighbors
Silencing the Past
Social Life of Stories
The Make-Believe Space
Notes from the Balkans
The Reconstruction of Nations
Surviving Images
The absent ‘Others’
To Resolve the Ukrainian Problem Once and for All”
Trapped between two churches
The Establishment of Communist Rule in Poland, 1943-1948
Postsocialist Nationalism
Ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe
Beyond Broken
The Affect Theory Reader
Memory in an Amnesic World
Lessons about Humanity and Survival from My Mother and from the Holocaust
Missing the Holocaust
Anthropology and traces
Placing and tracing absence
Affective spaces, melancholic objects
Dying Is an Art, like Everything Else
Dying out
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |