Built on up-to-date field material, this edited volume suggests an
anthropological approach to the palimpsest-like milieus of Wroclaw,
Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău. In these East-Central European
borderline cities, the legacies of Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, and
violent ethno-nationalism have been revisited in recent decades in
search of profound moral reckoning and in response to the
challenges posed by the (post-)transitional period. Present shapes
and contents of these urban settings derive from combinations of
fragmented material environments, cultural continuities and
political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective
memories about the contentious past, expressive architectural forms
and less conspicuous meaning-making activities of human actors. In
other words, they evolve from perpetual tensions between choices of
the past and the burden of the past. A novel feature of this book
is its multi-level approach to the analysis of engagements with the
lost diversity in historical urban milieus full of post-war voids
and ruptures. In particular, the collected studies test the
possibility of combining the theoretical propositions of Memory
Studies with broader conceptualizations of borderlands,
cosmopolitan sociality, urban mythologies, and hybridity. The
volumes contributors are Eleonora Narvselius, Bo Larsson, Natalia
Otrishchenko, Anastasia Felcher, Juliet D. Golden, Hana Cervinkova,
Pawel Czajkowski, Alexandr Voronovici, Barbara Pabjan, Nadiia
Bureiko, Teodor Lucian Moga, and Gaelle Fisher.
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