Rethinking History, Reframing Identity Memory, Generations, and the Dynamics of National Identity in Poland /

This book contributes to the theoretical and methodological discussion about how the diverging experiences of generations and their historical memories play a role in the process of national identity formation. Drawing from narratives gathered within the Ukrainian minority in northern Poland and cen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wangler, Alexandra (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: National Identity in Eastern Europe after Communism
  • National Identity as a Process
  • The Life Course and Social Change
  • Methodology
  • The Ukrainians in Poland: Social Structure and History
  • Homeland and Belonging as Factors of National Identity
  • Overcoming the Past: Experience, Memory and the Present
  • Talking about Identity and Prejudices: Interweaving Sameness and Otherness
  • Religion, Language and Traditions in Everyday Life
  • Conclusions: Explaining Heterogeneity in National Identity by Means of Generational Change.