Contemporary Auschwitz/Oświęcim by Thomas Van De Putte

Contemporary Auschwitz/Oświęcim by Thomas Van De Putte

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 and Erving Goffman. With attention to narratives concerning pre-war Catholic–Jewish coexistence, wartime Nazi occupation, the Holocaust and post-war Communist Poland, the author explores the complementary, fluid and contradictory nature of meaning-making processes in various contemporary interactional contexts, both online and offline. As such, it will appeal to social scientists with interests in memory studies, the Holocaust and interactional sociology.

Thomas Van de Putte is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy.

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ISBN 13	9780367697310
ISBN 10	0367697319
Title	Contemporary Auschwitz/Oświęcim
Author	Thomas Van De Putte
Series	Memory Studies: Global Constellations
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2023-05-31
Number of pages	128
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