Spaces and Places in Transition. Urban and Rural Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe

0501747 - EÚ 2019 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Woitsch, Jiří - Sherfey, P. - Daňková, Hana - Nyklová, Blanka - Gibas, Petr - Pauknerová, K. - Beranská, Veronika
Spaces and Places in Transition. Urban and Rural Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe.
[Praha, 07.11.2018-09.11.2018, (K-WRD 65/40)]
Institutional support: RVO:68378076 ; RVO:68378025
Keywords : space transformation * urban ethnology * rural landscape * postsocialism * heritage * public space * memory
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology; Sociology (SOU-Z)
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In the decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union, countries in Central and Eastern Europe have confronted a period of transformation processes that rapidly altered earlier structures of space and society, leaving their mark throughout urban wilderness, brownfields, border landscapes, and former military zones on the one hand, and suburbanisation, gentrification of cities, and industrialisation of agriculture on the other. By exploring the unique contexts and reactions to the preservation, removal, and transformation of spaces impacted by such processes, we can learn much about the ways in which contested histories and futures are mediated through built and natural environments, and the emotions that they inspire. Conributions that explore the changing roles of rural and urban cultural heritages in rapidly transforming social and political settings, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe were thus presented at the conference. Additionally papers and keynotes were presented that addressed how different perspectives on heritage inform the representation and reinterpretation of spaces in public discourse in order to construct new cultural landscapes.


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