Beyond Collective Memory — The Social Dimensions of Remembering a City: An Outline of the Issue Using the Example of the “Wrocław, Remember...” Project Cover Image

Poza pamięć zbiorową — społeczne wymiary pamiętania miasta. Zarys problematyki na przykładzie projektu „Wrocław. Pamiętam, że...”
Beyond Collective Memory — The Social Dimensions of Remembering a City: An Outline of the Issue Using the Example of the “Wrocław, Remember...” Project

Author(s): Kamilla Biskupska
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: autobiographical memory; pamięć autobiograficzna; social memory; pamięć społeczna; collective memory; pamięć zbiorowa; memory of senses; pamięć zmysłów; places of memory; miejsca pamięci; memory of th

Summary/Abstract: The author suggests that research into the socially constructed collective past should be expanded to include motifs of social memory that are negotiated in private discourse and emerge intersubjectively (often unconsciously) at the level of everyday life. She considers the relation between places of memory and memory of places, and between social memory and individual memory. The article is based on empirical material from the reminiscences of Wrocław inhabitants published in the book Wrocław: I Remember... [Wrocław. Pamiętam, że...], which was prepared in connection with Wrocław’s role as European Capital of Culture 2016.

  • Issue Year: 62/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 103-119
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish