Dolnośląskość Wrocławia? O tożsamościowej relacji miasta z regionem
Wrocław as a Lower Silesian city? On identity relations between the city and its region

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at analyzing the issue of importance of the category of „Lower Silesia” in the process of forming collective identity (and its spatial aspect) of the city and the people of Wrocław. There is a twofold justification for asking such a question. Firstly, there are new challenges that urban settlements need to tackle since they are facing shrinkage of external resources and an increasing necessity to rely on internal resources and to build up resilience against crises. Secondly, Wrocław is an example of a city which is now facing a crisis of its identity as the meeting place and is looking for new identification. The background for presenting the latest results of empirical research is a historical one — it is comprised of the description of postwar political efforts to deliver a collective identity and integrate a loose set of people who settled in a completely strange region of regained territories. The article concludes with statements on the usefulness of the Lower Silesian aspect of identity for the inhabitants and for the city — a potential metropolis — of Wrocław.

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