Polityka pamięci na polsko-ukraińskim pograniczu kulturowym na przykładzie nazewnictwa ulic trzech miast Galicji Wschodniej
The politics of memory in the Polish-Ukrainian cultural borderland on the example of street naming in three cities of Eastern Galicia

Summary/Abstract: In this article the authors have attempted to juxtapose two historical periods in the context of the variability of street naming in the cities of Eastern Galicia, which is a cultural borderland. The analysis includes cities – Boryslav, Kolomyia and Drohobych, during the Polish (1919–1939) and Ukrainian (from 1991) administrations. The research results are the findings of comparative analyses of the studied towns’ urbanonymy, with a description of them, supplemented by cartographic studies. On the basis of these, it was concluded that both the former Polish and the current Ukrainian policy of memory often use the same mechanisms of ideological space appropriation, forming and deepening the historical narrative of a given nation.

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