Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia

Negotiating Identity and Collective Memory in Czech Silesia



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English | 2026 | ISBN: 9633867908 | 217pages | True PDF,EPUB | 25.33 MB

How do people negotiate identity, memory, and history in Czech Silesia? How do they make sense of a turbulent past marked by mass displacement, shifting borders, and successive political regimes? And what do dominant narratives of Czech nationalism mean for communities living with the absence of others?

This rich ethnography of the city of Opava and the neighbouring Hlučín region follows a diverse cast of local actors involved in shaping and remaking regional collective memory. From the bottom up, the book examines how memory is selectively preserved, silenced, or commodified in response to different mnemonic challenges, including contested Wehrmacht legacies, linguistic politics, and the branding of Silesian cuisine.