Gebundenes Buch

No Neighbors' Lands in Postwar Europe

Vanishing Others

Herausgegeben: Wylegala, Anna; Rutar, Sabine; Lukianow, Malgorzata

Beschreibung

This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians, sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives on those who now lived in 'cleansed' borderlands. Its contributors explore local subjectivities of social change through the concept of 'No Neighbors' Lands': How does it feel to wear the dress of your murdered neighbor? How does one get used to friends, colleagues, and neighbors no longer being part of everyday life? How is moral, social, and legal order reinstated after one part of the community participated in the ethnic cleansing of another? How is order restored psychologically in the wake of neighbors watching others being slaughtered by external enemies? This book sheds light on how destroyed European communities, once multi-ethnic and multi-religious, experienced postwar reconstruction, attempted to come to terms with what hadhappened, and negotiated remembrance.
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Autor

Anna Wylegäa is a sociologist and is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. She is the author of Displaced Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in Post-War Poland and Ukraine (2019) and the co-editor (with Mägorzata G¿owacka-Grajper) of The Burden of the Past: History and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine (2020). Sabine Rutar is Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, Germany, where she works as Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of Comparative Southeast European Studies. In her forthcoming monograph At Work under Hitler and Tito: Mining and Maritime Industries in Yugoslavia, 1940s-1960s she compares microhistories of industrial labour during World War II and the early Cold War. Mägorzata ¿ukianow is a sociologist and is Assistant Professorat the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her work is situated at the intersection of the sociology of culture, memory studies, and the sociology of knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
• Verlag: No Neighbors' Lands in Postwar Europe / Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Spr
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-10856-3
• 2023
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9783031108563
• ISBN-10: 3031108566
• Artikelnr.: 64155145

Rezensionen

Assessing archives, trial records, and interviews, the contributors offer micro-historical fieldwork, whose grassroots insights inform decades of analysis about the era s population upheavals. This volume brings multilingual research to English-language specialist researchers, as well as upper-level university courses on nationalism, forced migration, or memory history." (Andrew Demshuk, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Vol. 74 (1), 2025)

The volume succeeds to deconstruct unilateral memory narratives by drawing attention to the emotionality and materiality of losses, by showing different scales of individual agency in the context of structural, state-imposed violence, and by unveiling the social dimension of many national conflicts. No Neighbors Land is a fruitful contribution to the historiographical and mnemopolitical discussion of experiences of violence during and after the Second World War. (Laura Clarissa Loew, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, December 5, 2023)