Competing Memories of European Border Towns (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Frandsen, Steen Bo; Katajala, Kimmo; Hackmann, Jörg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers competing memory politics in European border towns after the First and Second World Wars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003860877
• Artikelnr.: 69854754

Autorenporträt

Steen Bo Frandsen is Professor and Head of Centre for Border Region Studies at the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses mainly on regional history and nation states (Denmark, Germany, and Italy), the Danish-German borderlands, and their entangled histories. His ongoing projects include a regional history of Schleswig, and the project Danish-German Cultures (1773-1864): Conflict and Cohesion. Jörg Hackmann is Professor at the Department of History and Director of the International Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Szczecin, Poland. His research focuses on the history of North-Eastern and East Central Europe, in particular on historiography, memory cultures, civil society, and regionalisms with a focus on transnational entanglements. He is currently working on a project dealing with the Jewish topography of Szczecin before the Holocaust. Kimmo Katajala is Professor of History at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on social disturbances, history of borders, cartography, and state building in the early modern period. His ongoing projects explore early modern state building, political space, and politics of memory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Competing Memories: Understanding the Multiple Histories of European
Border Towns - Introduction 2. Competing Memories in the Vyborg Townscape
3. Failed 'Return to Normalcy': the Legacy of Lenin Square, Klaip¿da
4. From Stettin / Szczecin to Stecin / Szczettin? National and
Transnational Mnemonic Discourses in a (new) Border City 5. Flensburg. A
Border City with Many Histories 6. Trieste: An Eclectic Culture of Memory
7. Frontier Urbanism and Memory Politics in Twentieth Century Rijeka/Fiume
8. Conclusion: Changing Politics of Memory in European Border Towns