Transformacja ekonomiczna a tożsamość kulturowa Stare regiony przemysłowe Europy w procesie zmian — przypadek badań Górnego Śląska w projekcie SPHERE
Economic transformation and cultural identity. The old post-industrial regions of Europe in the process of change — the case of SPHERE project study o

Summary/Abstract: The Silesian Voivodship is a typical area of cultural borderland where different patterns of ethnic and industrial culture blend into a specific new quality. The economic transformations of the early nineties (20th century) undermined the foundations on which the traditional regional symbolic order was laid. The pauperization of mining settlements is a particularly important factor affecting the process of the contemporary regional identity. Our paper is based on partial research outcomes from the project “Space, Place and the Historical and contemporary articulations of regional, national and European identities through work and community in areas undergoing economic REstructuring and regeneration” (SPHERE). Briefly, the project seeks to examine the role of different discursive narratives in shaping ideas and experiences of identity, region and place. Discursive and material ‘effects’ of re-shaping communities through an economic change seek to examine how the past and present hold possibilities for the future. In the text we also intend to introduce into epistemological perspective received in SPHERE.

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