Contemporary Auschwitz/oswiecim - An Interactional, Synchronic Approach to Collective Memory

Based on fieldwork in the contemporary Polish town of Oswiecim - Auschwitz in German - and drawing on interactionist thought, this book presents an innovative theoretical and empirical approach to the present attribution of meaning to the past, thus shedding light on the manner in which residents remember and narrate the past of their town.

List of contents

1. Introduction: A Synchronic, Interactional Approach to Collective Memory 2. A Critique of Memory Studies’ Epistemologie s 3. Collective Memory and the Self: Towards an Epistemology of ‘Dividuals’ 4. Interactional Memory Methods 5. The Politization of Auschwitz/Oświęcim since 1944: Memory Politics in Poland and Beyond 6. Including or Excluding Jews? An Analysis of Context-Dependent Othering in Auschwitz/Oświęcim 7. Ethnifying Agency: Inhabitants of Auschwitz/Oświęcim Narrating 1939–1945 8. Renegotiating Auschwitz: Attribution of Meaning to Spatial Realms in Auschwitz/Oświęcim 9. Conclusion

About the author

Thomas Van de Putte is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy.

Summary

Based on fieldwork in the contemporary Polish town of Oswiecim - Auschwitz in German - and drawing on interactionist thought, this book presents an innovative theoretical and empirical approach to the present attribution of meaning to the past, thus shedding light on the manner in which residents remember and narrate the past of their town.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Van de Putte, Thomas (University of Trento Van De Putte
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780367697280
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69728-0
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Memory Studies: Global Constellations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Sociology, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, REFERENCE / Research, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Research methods: general, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater