“In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device
“In Karlov, we were like a Family”: Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device

Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to answer the questions of how present perception and conceptualizations ofeveryday life in the city recreate representations of the past and the image of a long demolishedneighbourhood of a workers’ colony, and how this image is used as a “mnemonic device” when narrators seek to respond to the perceived socio-spatial problems. We deal with what we call “oppressedmemory” of a neighbourhood that does not exist in its “memory form” anymore, but is, though, livedas a communal memory space and used as a memory device to respond to the perceived current social and spatial problems of the city of Pilsen and beyond.

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