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Diversity and Local ContextsThe Containment of Memory in the “Meeting Place”: City Marketing and Contemporary Memory Politics in Central Europe

Diversity and Local Contexts: The Containment of Memory in the “Meeting Place”: City Marketing... [In 1945, the German city of Breslau was transferred to Polish administration that drew a thick line between the city’s German past and its Polish present. After 1989, Wroclaw marketed itself as a European metropolis with ambitions to build on its multicultural heritage. We argue, however, that the city’s self-labeling, which serves as a marker of distinction on the global market, is a form of neo-liberal containment rather than a serious change in how the past of the city informs current policy. In the early 1980s, both scholars and local citizens began delving into a vast archive of the city’s past. We see the current policy as narrowing the horizons of collective memory that helps exclude from the discourse and practices of contemporary identity building the diverse cultural memories of “the other.”] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Diversity and Local ContextsThe Containment of Memory in the “Meeting Place”: City Marketing and Contemporary Memory Politics in Central Europe

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Krase, Jerome; Uherek, Zdeněk
Cervinkova, Hana; Golden, Juliet
Diversity and Local Contexts — Nov 3, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-53951-5
Pages
55 –70
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53952-2_4
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[In 1945, the German city of Breslau was transferred to Polish administration that drew a thick line between the city’s German past and its Polish present. After 1989, Wroclaw marketed itself as a European metropolis with ambitions to build on its multicultural heritage. We argue, however, that the city’s self-labeling, which serves as a marker of distinction on the global market, is a form of neo-liberal containment rather than a serious change in how the past of the city informs current policy. In the early 1980s, both scholars and local citizens began delving into a vast archive of the city’s past. We see the current policy as narrowing the horizons of collective memory that helps exclude from the discourse and practices of contemporary identity building the diverse cultural memories of “the other.”]

Published: Nov 3, 2017

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