Remembering the German Past in the Czech Lands: A Key Moment between Communicative and Cultural Memory

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F17%3A10281862" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/17:10281862 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2016.1182521" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2016.1182521</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2016.1182521" target="_blank" >10.1080/02757206.2016.1182521</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Remembering the German Past in the Czech Lands: A Key Moment between Communicative and Cultural Memory

Original language description

The objective of this text is to document the ongoing shift from the communicative to the cultural memory of war and post-war events in the Czech Republic by using an example of a local struggle about a memorial for German inhabitants of a Czech town killed in June 1945. This case study of a local conflict enables one to analyse the different modes, circumstances and objectives of the production of knowledge about the German past in the Czech Republic before and after 1989. Thanks to an anthropological and social geographical approach based on interviews, family memory research, observations, an analysis of archive materials it is possible to reconstruct the local as well as the international sources of the post-1989 collective memory of the German past in Central Europe. This history is still in constant conflict with the pre-1989 version of Czech national history which had contemptuously marginalised its German component. This replacement and refinement of communicative memory of German past happens close to the shift to cultural memory and these two dynamics even sometimes overlap.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GPP404%2F12%2FP927" target="_blank" >GPP404/12/P927: Territory and social memory in Bohemian borderlands after 1990: The post socialist management of tangible and intangible traces of the German past</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

History and Anthropology

ISSN

0275-7206

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

84-109

UT code for WoS article

000393682000005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84976902781