1st Edition
Contemporary Auschwitz/Oświęcim An Interactional, Synchronic Approach to Collective Memory
By Thomas Van de Putte
Copyright 2022
136 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
136 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
136 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book presents an innovative theoretical and empirical approach to the present attributions of meaning to the past. Based on the author’s fieldwork in the contemporary Polish town of Oświęcim – Auschwitz, in German – it observes the manner in which residents remember and narrate the past of their town, drawing on theoretical perspectives from the work of figures such as George Herbert Mead... Read more
Biography
Thomas Van de Putte is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy.
