In: Kivimäki V., Leese P. (eds) Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe after World War II. Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham., 2022
This chapter focuses on the multidimensional trauma of witnesses to mass ethnic violence. The aut... more This chapter focuses on the multidimensional trauma of witnesses to mass ethnic violence. The author analyzes the personal experiences of civilians during World War II in Eastern Galicia (once a multi-ethnic borderland region: before 1939 in Poland, now in Ukraine). What makes Galicia an exceptional case study is the continuity of mass violence of different kinds and against different groups of the population: Soviet repression and mass killings, the Holocaust, ethnic cleansing of Poles committed by Ukrainian nationalists, and conflict between Soviet authorities and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Drawing on existing concepts from the field of bystanders’ studies, for example, Michael Rothberg’s implicated subject and Omer Bartov’s communal genocide, the author proposes to understand the trauma of Galician bystanders as a complex and multidimensional experience, psychological as well as collective and communal.
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Na podstawie analizy ponad stu pięćdziesięciu wywiadów biograficznych i biograficzno-tematycznych autorka odtwarza proces kształtowania się nowej, powojennej rzeczywistości społecznej w obu miastach, ograniczony przez represywny system polityczny, wewnętrzne konflikty i indywidualne ludzkie dramaty. Pokazuje, w jaki sposób różne grupy nowych mieszkańców odnoszą się do przeszłości grupy własnej, obecnego miejsca zamieszkania oraz ludzi, którzy żyli tu przed nimi. Pamięć przesiedlenia i postmigracyjna rekonstrukcja tożsamości, dynamika procesów zakorzenienia w różnych pokoleniach mieszkańców Krzyża i Żółkwi, lokalne spory o bohaterów i zdrajców – to najważniejsze tematy pojawiające się w książce. Osadzając analizę empiryczną w instrumentarium teoretycznym współczesnych studiów nad pamięcią biograficzną i zbiorową, praca proponuje oryginalne spojrzenie porównawcze na problematykę pamięci w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej.
(ul. Dobra 55) on 25-27 September 2024 in a hybrid format with possible online participation.
The vital and complex role of the landowning elites in the political, economic, and cultural history of Europe has been extensively researched, resulting in a wealth of literature. However, the question of how this role has been remembered since the dissolution of these elites as a social class, and what the implications of this memory and legacy are for contemporary European societies, has only recently been addressed by sociologists, historians, and anthropologists.
The opening hypothesis of the conference is that post-feudal social structures, which were a consequence of the power dynamics between the landowners and peasants, can be examined through a perspective of the longue durée. The existence of landowners as a class was brought to an end by political decisions and revolutionary movements, or gradually transitioned into social and political systems based on more democratic principles. This led to various legacies from the past, modes of remembrance, and finally, legal and economic circumstances. These diverse trajectories serve as a reminder of the East-West dichotomy in Europe, as in part of Central and Eastern Europe the end of the landowners' domination came with bloodshed and violence, as part of the making of the ‘Bloodlands’. However, our aim is to go beyond this dichotomy and see whether schemes other than East-West can be employed to understand the diversity of the gentry, nobility and aristocracy history in Europe.
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How does the past exist in contemporary Ukraine? The works collected in The Burden of the Past focus on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture. The works explore contemporary memory culture in Ukraine and the ways in which it is being researched and understood. Drawing on work from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and political scientists, the collection represents a truly interdisciplinary approach. Taken together, the groundbreaking scholarship collected in The Burden of the Past provides insight into how memories can be warped and abused, and how this abuse can have lasting effects on a country seeking to create a hopeful future. bit.ly/BurdenofthePast