Narrative interviews in research on post-war socio-historical processes as formative factors of the regional identity of the population. Case study of the Svitavy region (Czech Republic)

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15201/hungeobull.65.1.3" target="_blank" >10.15201/hungeobull.65.1.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Narrative interviews in research on post-war socio-historical processes as formative factors of the regional identity of the population. Case study of the Svitavy region (Czech Republic)

Original language description

The aims of the paper are twofold. The first aim is a methodological one, the article presents the possibilities of using narrative interviews in research on post-war socio-historical development. The second aim is to evaluate the experiences of eyewitnesses who experienced the expulsion of the German-speaking population and the process of resett lement in the distinctive region of Svitavy. Being the largest migratory population movement in the 20th century in the Czech lands, the displacement of the Germans and the subsequent process of resettlement brought significant social, cultural, and economic consequences. Their influence on the inhabitants of the affected regions and regional identities of these inhabitants is evident even now. The method of narrative interviews contributes to unveiling the importance of these processes in witnesses´ minds. The successful fulfilment of both objectives allows evaluation of the appropriateness of the methods applied in research on regional identities of the population, as well as a better understanding of the importance of post-war events for the eyewitnesses to them. As these events occurred in a specific region (Svitavy), it is possible to identify important factors that contributed to the formation of regional identities of these witnesses. The article is a contribution to the existing knowledge about the phenomenon of regional identity of populations, which is understood as a process. In addition, it also contributes to a deeper knowledge of the role of the (dis)continuity of settlement in this process.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin

ISSN

2064-5031

e-ISSN

2064-5147

Volume of the periodical

65

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

27-42

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84962744768