Subtitle:

The process of the autochthons’ and displaced people’s growing into the new cultural space of Silesia after the Second World War ; Journal of Urban Ethnology 17 (2019)

Publisher:

Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

In compliance with the resolutions made at the Yalta Conference in 1945, new borders of the post-war Polish state were demarcated and the necessity of displacing the German population from the lands incorporated into Poland was agreed upon. This led to mass-scale displacements of the population from the former eastern lands of the Second Republic of Poland to the so-called Recovered Territories (or Western Lands), which in turn triggered the exceptionally traumatic process of people’s “growing into” the new space. The author follows this complicated and long-lasting process, using the example of the Opole Region, where two communities co-existed side by side: the displaced and the autochthonous, both sides equally going through the peculiar shock connected with their difficult adjustment to the new socio-political reality. The drama of the situation resulted also from the clash of two totally different communities of remembrance. In the author’s opinion, presently we can speak of the progressing finalization of the process of “taming the space” at last, as documented by the experiences of the third generation of the so-called “uprooted” persons

Relation:

Journal of Urban Ethnology

Volume:

17

Start page:

109

End page:

121

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:113599 ; 1429-0618

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 714 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 1505 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Access:

Open