‘Are You Looking for a Body?’: Excavating Contemporary Homeless Places

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Kiddey
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Convenience Store ◽  
World War ◽  
Long Day ◽  
Linguistic Evidence ◽  
Second World

About halfway up Stokes Croft, Bristol, there is an area known locally as Turbo Island. It remains an unassuming triangle of land that, about five metres at its widest point, houses an advertising billboard and an electricity substation. Turbo Island was once the site of three buildings—71 to 73 Stokes Croft—that received a direct hit from a 400 lb bomb during a Second World War air raid. The foundations of the buildings remain and form a wall upon which homeless people have been known to sit, chat, and drink for several decades. The name ‘Turbo Island’ is said to derive from the amount of ‘turbo’—that is, super-strength—cider that homeless people consume at the site, cultural linguistic evidence perhaps of Turbo Island being a homeless place, a place that belongs to homeless people. Turbo Island also happens to be directly opposite the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft (PRSC) headquarters (32 Jamaica Street). It was one of the first places that PRSC attempted to promote the idea that we—the wider local community—could collectively and collaboratively improve Stokes Croft for the enjoyment of everyone if we took responsibility for simple things. For example, if we collected litter, kept the streets clean and tidy, and cared for the few green spaces we had to make the area a more attractive, healthy place to spend time. It was in this vein that PRSC installed a picnic table painted with a chessboard,1 so that people who used Turbo Island had somewhere to sit and something to do. Turbo Island was (and remains to this day) a nexus point for homeless people. It was often where I first met homeless people with whom I went on to develop close working relationships. It was the place to which people most commonly returned. One afternoon, after a particularly long day of ethnographic mapping, I dived into Abdul’s convenience store to buy myself and Little Tom a drink before we crossed the street to sit on Turbo Island.

scholarly journals Collective actions for reconfiguration of urban space Biały Bór, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Sergiy Ilchenko
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
World War ◽  
Complete Replacement ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Biały Bór is located in the former German territories that came to Poland after the Second World War. The almost complete replacement of the indigenous German and Jewish populations, initially by Polish and soon Ukrainian communities, was the result of the displacement of state borders by the eviction and relocation of millions of people. To do this, the authorities used certain strategies, which brought different approaches and constraints to local communities and urban spaces. The article considers the differences between the declared principles and the actual actions of the authorities in the context of “small stories” of all actors (national communities), as well as the tactics of indirect resistance of the local community to government pressure. Due to the remoteness of the place from the state center and due to its unanimity, the local community becomes the driving force of the spatial development of the city. And since the city is multicultural, the development of public spaces is influenced by the competitiveness (not confrontation) of two local communities. Therefore, the creation of public spaces is considered in the context of the rights of different groups to the city. This paper argues the conditions under which it is the collective actions of local communities that determine the change in the configuration of urban space.

scholarly journals Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian–Hungarian Borderlands, 1945–1956

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK PITTAWAY
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
State Reconstruction ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Legitimate State ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

AbstractThis article examines the process of state reconstruction in Austria and Hungary's borderlands that followed the Second World War. This process of state reconstruction was also a process of pacification, as it represented an attempt to (re)build states on the foundations of the military settlement of the war. The construction of legitimate state authority was at its most successful on the Austrian side of the border, where political actors were able to gain legitimacy by creating a state that acted as an effective protector of the immediate demands of the local community for security from a variety of threats. On the Hungarian side of the border the state was implicated with some of the actors who were seen as threatening local communities, something that produced political polarisation. These differences set the stage for the transition from war to cold war in the borderlands.

scholarly journals Protection of old forges in Sułkowice – symbol of the local crafts-manship

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-160
Author(s):  
Barbara Zin
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Times ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Wooden Structures ◽  
The Town ◽  
Second World

Wooden structures linked to agriculture are disappearing from the image of the Polish countryside, villages and small towns at the beginning of the 21st century. It is worthy to start the discussion on the fate of desolate, deteriorating forges, sawmills, carpentries, or water mills which are relics of the traditional technology. Sułkowice, a small town in the Małopolskie voivodeship, has been known for ages as a prominent centre of blacksmiths and their craft. Even today one feels the specific character of the landscape; in the mid-19th century circa 1000 blacksmiths worked there. Tradition lived until the times after the Second World War – when artisans in Sułkowice forged, among others, artful fittings for the MS ‘Batory’ [famed Polish liner]. Inventories, surveys and measurements of old forges, elaborated by the authoress within the framework of the research grant “Image of villages and small towns in Poland of the last decade of the 20th century” (led by Prof. Wiktor Zin) led to gathering of the documentation of circa 20 structures hailing from the close of the 19th century. After 20 years that elapsed since the research there are only a few left, and their days are numbered. Local Programme of Revitalisation of the Town from the year 2007 which is a strategic plan for enterprises aiming at amelioration of the area, does not mention the protection of the last witnesses of the local crafts’s tradition. Whereby the activisation of the local community, deriving from the tradition of the place, should be the aim of such a programme. Thus maybe there should be reconstruction and later ‘cyclical rebuilding’ of the structures which have no chance to exist with their primary function? “Old-new” wooden structures shall be a reminder of the blacksmiths’ tradition.

(A)symmetry of (Non-)memory

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Magierowski
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Working Through ◽  
The Village ◽  
Second World ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Local Leaders

During the Second World War, the village of Pawłokoma, nowadays located a dozen kilometres from the Polish–Ukrainian border, was an area of conflict between the two nations. It has been almost ten years since a ceremony was held commemorating the victims of the conflict. The ceremony was attended by the Polish and Ukrainian Presidents. Today, the village is a symbol of reconciliation between the two nations. This article analyzes the dynamics of local collective memory about the conflict, using the “working through” concept and works on social remembering as a theoretical framework. In my discussion of the causes and effects of the changes in dynamics, I use data from individual in-depth interviews with three categories of respondents: the inhabitants of Pawłokoma, local leaders, and experts. The aforementioned ceremony was an opportunity for working through the traumatic past in the local community of Pawłokoma. Although social consultations were held in Pawłokoma rather than a comprehensive working-through process, we should be talking about a symbolic substitute for this process. Despite the fact that material commemorations of the Polish and Ukrainian victims were erected, some factors essential to accomplishing the working-through process were missed, such as complex institutional support, the engagement of younger generations, and empathy towards the “Others” and their sufferings.

scholarly journals Mass sport in the Gdańsk lands in the years 1945–1989

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Połaniecka ◽  
Julian Jaroszewski
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Sport Tourism ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
World War ◽  
Family Activities ◽  
Recreation Centers ◽  
Second World

After the Second World War, physical culture in Poland undoubtedly became an instrument for strengthening the position of communist authorities in public. However, despite the unfavourable political aspects, participation in mass sport has definitely contributed to the integration of local community, followed by collective social initiatives. The rebuilding of structures of physical culture in Pomerania proceeded differently in comparison to other areas of our country. Several factors contributed to this, including economic, social and demographic changes that took place after the end of warfares, which were closely related to the process of settling and developing the Regained Territories. The Society of Physical Culture Propagation had the most important role in the dissemination of physical culture. It was followed by: Provincial Sports, Tourism and Leisure Center named Balt-Tourist, with its counterparts at the lower organizational level, The Municipal Sport, Tourism and Recreation Centers of Gdańsk, Gdynia and Sopot, which often organized Saturday and Sunday leisure time as well as The Polish Tourist – Sightseeing Society, while among youth organizations the Polish Scouting Association. The term “mass sport” was a product of the PRL period, to a large extent its existence was a fiction, along with the progressing ideologisation of physical culture, based on the Soviet model. At the same time, the proposed activities were a form of spending free time and the possibility of joint family activities, integration of the local community.

scholarly journals When All Could No Longer Be Equal in Death: A Local Community’s Struggle to Remember Its Fallen Soldiers in the Shadow of Serbia’s Civil War, 1955-1956

2010 ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Max Bergholz
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
War Dead ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
The Village ◽  
Second World

In the spring of 1956, a plaque was hung in the Orthodox Church in the village of Brezna, located in western Serbia. On it were carved the names of local men who had been killed fighting during the Second World War. However, contrary to Communist policy, the list included not only those who had fought with the Communist-led Partisan resistance movement, but also those they had fought against, the Chetniks. Based on archival documents, the contemporary press, and interviews with local residents, this essay reconstructs the experience of the war years in this region, the factors that led to the hanging of the plaque, and the consequences faced by the village priest for its creation. The purpose is to examine how a local community, composed of combatants and their families from both sides of the wartime and postwar ideological divide, dealt with the mandate to simultaneously remember and forget the war dead. The main argument is that the incident in Brezna was a clash between traditional local practices of inclusive commemoration of the war dead and new exclusionary forms that emerged after the Second World War, due to the fratricidal nature of wartime violence, which were supported by Communist political elites as well as many local villagers.

scholarly journals LOCAL PATTERN OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE SECULAR STATE: ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PECHERSKY DISTRICT OF THE PSKOVSKAYA OBLAST IN THE LATE 20TH - EARLY 21ST CENTURIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Olga V. Kalinina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
World War ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Second World

The article deals with results of research on transmission of religious tradition in local community after the Second World War. The research is based on field materials collected by the author in ethnographic expeditions of 2007-2017 and archive materials. It examines the ways of transmission of religious norms and practices on the example of the population of the Pechersky District of the Pskovskaya Oblast situated outside the sphere of state atheistic ideology until 1940. First it's interpersonal communication within family (seniors-juniors) and in church (priest-parishioners). Second it's implicit influence of environment - acting churches of the Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery and sustainable reproduction of religious tradition by local population. The Soviet educational system implied predominance of social education over domestic one, but it couldn't completely exclude children from the local ecclesiastical culture; they continued to participate in many religious practices even in conditions of absence of systematic religious education. The educational resources of the Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery started to develop immediately after the democratization of society in the 1980s. In the 20th - early 21st centuries monastery functioned as important actor of religion's integration in local educational process both in form of optional catechism lessons and broader context of spiritual-ethical education.

scholarly journals KAMPANYE SADAR LINGKUNGAN DI AREA WISATA PANTAI ARMY DOCK KABUPATEN PULAU MOROTAI

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Kismanto Koroy ◽  
Nurfani Nurfani
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Environmentally Conscious ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Psychological Behavior ◽  
Beach Tourism ◽  
Beach Resort ◽  
Second World

The Army Dock is a historic beach resort, where during the second world war this place served as a port for warships. Visitor activities in the Army Dock beach tourism location which varies greatly from swimming, enjoying the scenery, beach sports, sunbathing and other activities, will also have an impact on the carrying capacity of the environment. One of the environmental impacts which is a problem is the lack of awareness of visitors who still dispose of their trash improperly . The aim of this activity is to conduct an environmentally conscious campaign through beach cleaning and billboard placement so that visitors for the sake of sustainability in the future.The method used in community service is counseling and activities accompanied by the creation and installation of invitation boards (environmental awareness campaigns). In this activity students, lecturers and visitors also participated. Cleaning the beach is done by going along the beach area of the tourist location by collecting rubbish . The involvement of visitors in beach cleaning activities and the installation of invitation boards, has indirectly shaped psychological behavior. This can be seen from their enthusiasm and participation to be able to join and assist the team in carrying out these activities . With the response from visitors and the local community canemphasizes the importance of preserving and maintaining the cleanliness of our environment, especially the coastal and marine environment so that it can attract tourists to visit the Army Dock beach.

How and why Polish peasants (do not) talk about the Holocaust

Fabula ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 301-315
Author(s):  
Piotr Grochowski
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Core Motif ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Good Reputation ◽  
Second World

AbstractIn this article I discuss how images of the Holocaust are contained in Polish oral narratives and the special way of transmitting them among peasants. Based on materials collected during ethnographic research conducted by Dionizjusz Czubala in the 1970s and 1980s in the southern part of the Świętokrzyskie Province in Poland I try to show, how traditional stereotypes concerning Jews and social relations influence the way of shaping and transmitting stories about the Holocaust. Analysing a sample of texts, I am arguing that core motif connects to the economic aspects of Polish-Jewish relations before and during the Second World War. I also claim that these recollections circulated in a situation that can be described as a pact of silence and therefore fulfilled several significant functions, among which the most important were: a) building and framing knowledge about past events, b) protection of the good reputation of the local community, c) maintaining relatively correct neighbourly relations, d) setting social status by stigmatizing economic contacts with Jews.

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