Redeveloping history in postsocialist Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2616412 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaro Stacul (University of Newfoundland [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 2018 |
| Issue | 81 |
| Pages | 72-85 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Focaal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/fcl.2018.810106 |
| OpenAlex | W2809892064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article analyzes the reorganization of public memory space in postsocialist Poland and how the state and municipal councils use it to legitimate themselves. Drawing on research conducted in Gdańsk, the birthplace of the social movement (Solidarność) that questioned the legitimacy of the socialist state in the 1980s, it examines the proposed redevelopment of the shipyard where the movement was formed. While the redevelopment sets out to create a public memory space, it is rife with contradictions, for it involves demolishing many buildings associated with the movement. What legitimated the municipal council's authority over its memorial landscapes was not so much its rediscovery of complex local histories as it was its ability to define the local past in "material" terms
Archaeology · Art · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public housing · Public space · Redevelopment · Shipyard · Social movement · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Engineering · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |