scholarly journals Historia y representación de la guerra en el espacio público valenciano = History and representation of war in the Valencian public spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Rafael Zurita Aldeguer
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
War Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Peninsular War ◽  
War Memories ◽  
Historical Heritage

Resumen: La Guerra de la Independencia española sigue presente en el espacio público de la Comunidad Valenciana. Monumentos, esculturas, pinturas, placas conmemorativas, nombres de calles y plazas, espacios museográficos y recreaciones históricas son una prueba de ello. El objetivo principal de este trabajo es señalar los elementos de la memoria histórica que están visibles en la vida cotidiana de los ciudadanos del siglo XXI y ofrecer una interpretación sobre el significado que se da a estos lugares de la memoria de la guerra. Además, se constata que apenas existe una política para la puesta en valor del patrimonio histórico relacionado con la guerra ni una promoción del turismo cultural sobre esta época histórica.Palabras clave: Historia pública, Guerra de la Independencia, Memoria de la guerra, Conmemoraciones, Turismo cultural.Abstract: The Peninsular War is still present in the public spaces of the Valencian Community. Monuments, sculptures, paintings, commemorative plates, names of streets and squares, museums and re-enactments provide  proof of this. The   objective of this work is to point out the elements of historical memory that are visible in the everyday life of 21st century citizens, and to offer an interpretation of the meaning given to those places in war memories. Additionally, there is hardly any policy for the enhancement of historical heritage related to the war nor some kind of promotion of cultural tourism on those  historical times.Keywords: Public history, Peninsular War, War Memory, Commemorations, Cultural tourism.

Outhouses

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Nicola J. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alexandre Dumas ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Walden Pond

Chapter 7 forays into visionary spaces occupied by writers beyond the domestic. It explores how the processes of writing are imagined within, and more usually beyond, the everyday domestic, with time outside the public hours of the day, and space behind, above, or beyond the public spaces of the house. With special reference to William Cowper’s summerhouse, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s hermitage at Ermenonville, Henry Thoreau’s cabin by Walden Pond, Alexandre Dumas’ Gothic folly, and Vita Sackville-West’s tower at Sissinghurst, it considers how writers have dramatized the writing life as an enviable life of the imagination led beyond the everyday and the ordinary, enabling it to plunge its roots deep into wider, national landscapes.

The Public and Private History of Eugenics: An Introduction

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHLOE S. BURKE ◽  
CHRISTOPHER J. CASTANEDA
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
California State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
History Of

Inspired by our experience addressing the legacy of eugenics at California State University, Sacramento, this special issue presents an array of articles representative of diverse approaches to the historical investigation of eugenics. This article provides an introduction to the history of eugenics and explores the ways in which public history is particularly well suited to shape the historical memory of eugenics and encourage dialogue about contemporary biotechnologies.

scholarly journals Cultural tourism: topical issues in the context of cultural and historical memory

2021 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
pp. 05025
Author(s):  
Tatiana L. Kashchenko ◽  
Irina V. Polozhentseva
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Training System ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Historical Heritage

The authors follow up the issues of cultural tourism in their relationship with cultural and historical heritage in the context of education of young people. The methods of cultural and historical analysis, forecasting, method of expert assessment, sociological methods are used at the article. Emphasizing the importance of cultural heritage in the globalizing world, the authors consider it as a factor of collective identity formation, which is important for national stability and safety ensuring. In the authors’ opinion the absolute demand for the preservation of cultural and natural heritage for future generation with awareness of not only economic but social benefit of its preservation should be the long-term strategy of modern cultural policy in the Russian Federation. They focus on objects of city architecture and the urban environment as triggers of cultural memory and territorial (local) identity. Based on the opinion poll data among first-year students of K. G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (FCU) the authors highlight the main issues of updating cultural and historical heritage as a means of young people education: the formation of young people’s interest in the history of the culture of their region and the country as a whole; providing of the assess to cultural values; education of careful attitude towards cultural and natural monuments, respect for the authenticity and diversity of cultural values of Russia and mankind; training in anti-vandal non-destructive behavior; involving in active participation of protection of cultural heritage monuments; popularization of tourism culture among the younger generation including the development of a training system for organizers of youth tourism (volunteers).

scholarly journals Powstanie Warszawskie i obóz Durchgangslager 121 w Pruszkowie widziane oczami wysiedlonych mieszkańców Warszawy i okolic. Doświadczenia indywidualne a współczesna pamięć społeczna

10.24917/3920 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 90-104
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Praga
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Public History ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Childhood Memories ◽  
War Narratives ◽  
The People ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
War Memories

Warsaw Uprising and Durchgangslager 121 in Pruszków as seen by deported citizens. Individual experiences vs contemporary public history Warsaw Uprising 70th anniversary is a time to remember that the events which took place in 1944 should be considered in full context, without skipping any aspects. So far forgotten were the civilians of the Warsaw uprising and what happened to them; however their fate did not stop at the signing of capitulation. What people mainly remember from the Warsaw uprising is Durchgangslager 121 in Pruszków, the transition camp to which all the inhabitants of the burning capital city were sent. This paper presents and analyzes sample protocols, relationships, testimonies, memories and documented and archived diaries since August 1944 to today. The image emerging from them, even though the facts, people and events concur, isn’t a homogeneous one. It’s composed of many bits of memories – individual memories, collective memory, childhood memories, or the memories of the residents of particular neighborhoods in Warsaw. What characterizes these documents? When did they appear? What makes war narratives created over the period of 70 years different? How is the third generation’s contemporary collective memory being shaped? The attempt to answer these questions is the starting point for future large-scale interdisciplinary researches.Key words: The Warsaw uprising; deportation of the people of Warsaw; transition camp Durchgangslager (Dulag) 121 in Pruszków; historical memory; war memories;

Positive loitering and public goods: The ambivalence of civic participation and community policing in the neoliberal city

Ethnography ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice Rai
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
The Public ◽  
Informal Labor ◽  
The Everyday

This article examines a community policing practice called ‘positive loitering’ — a strategy devised to eradicate the public occurrences of ‘negative loitering’ and informal labor markets in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood. By analyzing the everyday rhetorics and practices around ‘positive loitering’ protests, this ethnographic case study focuses on the multifarious and nuanced channels by which the material inequities of the neoliberal state are remade through the active energies of citizens struggling to define contested public spaces and the future of their neighborhood.

scholarly journals Public spaces as a factor of the quality of the urban environment (on the example of the city of Irkutsk)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Нина Полякова
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
City Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The City

The article describes the relevance of the study of public spaces as an important element of the quality of the urban environment. Successfully functioning public spaces are called upon to solve a number of urban problems, including the social isolation of citizens caused by urbanization processes. The characteristic of public spaces of a particular city is based on an assessment of a set of attributes and related criteria developed by placemaking specialists. It is proved that this complex should reflect not only the general requirements for public spaces, but also the features of the city: the diversity of the socio-ethnic structure of the population, cultural and historical heritage, and the specificity of the existing urban environment. The characteristics of the four most visited public spaces of the provincial Siberian city of Irkutsk are fulfilled: the Kirov square; historical and memorial complex "Jerusalem Mountain "; Municipal Park "Yunost Island"; shopping and entertainment complex "130th quarter". The results showed that the public spaces of the city perform a number of functions with varying degrees of success: best recreational and entertaining, partially creative and the function of storing the “collective memory” of the city. At the same time, the city does not have public spaces that fully meet the objectives of the development of urban society; this applies to both historical and newly created. Their main drawback is the inconsistency with the modern challenge for Irkutsk, namely, the solution to the problem of social inclusion of new citizens. Some measures have been proposed for City management to purposefully strengthen the elements of public spaces that implement the function of involving residents, especially migrants, in the public life of the city.

scholarly journals DECOM JOB: NOTES ON THE DECOMMUNIZATION OF CITY SPACES

2017 ◽  
pp. 152-165
Author(s):  
Svitlana Shlipchenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Parks ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Complete Ignorance ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Monuments And Memorials ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Following Maidan-2014 and subsequent political changes, the processes of de-communization in Ukraine have considerably accelerated and received the new impetus. The Parliament adopted a number of laws and legal acts concerning toponyms, monuments, and memorials, communist symbols, etc. thatwere to be removed from public spaces. The new legislation applied equally to open public spaces of the cities and villages (streets, squares, piazzas, public parks) and to the spaces of public use (municipal and government buildings, museums, underground stations, universities, schools, etc.). Leaving certainlacunas (e.g. using communist symbols in mass consumerist culture) and not specifying the ways and means the laws were to be implemented, the parliamentary acts gave way to numerous conflicts and misunderstandings, when the incessant confrontations with a painful past shape political attitudes.Furthermore, these processes call for re-conceptualizing the ways the past is set into the work of memory and represented in the city spaces. In the same breath, it resulted in mostly spontaneous, even hectic application of the provisions, and remains the contentious issue for the public, experts andlocal authorities alike. On the one hand, we see démontage, removal or dismantling/demolition of the objects that the experts tend to see as a part of the cultural or historical heritage, but which so far are not listed or assigned as such. While on the other hand, it works towards complete ignorance from the part of local authorities if not setting the conflicts between local communities. The paperwill look at certain cases and practices of ‘de-communization’ in Ukrainian cities and analyze its pro-s and contra-s.

scholarly journals Places of the Heart: Memorials, Public History and the State in Australia Since 1960

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Ashton ◽  
Paula Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Public History ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Over Time

Memorials as a form of public history allow us to chart the complex interactions and negotiations between officially endorsed historical narratives, public memorials, privately sponsored memorials in public spaces and new histories. As Ludmilla Jordanova reminds us, ‘the state… lies at the heart of public history’. And this is evident in the public process of memorialisation. At one level, the state endorses certain narratives within which communities and organisations need to operate if they are to be officially part of the national story and its regional and local variants. Ultimate endorsement for memorials includes listings on heritage registers. Controls over the erection of memorials vary from official policies to process for the issue of permits for their construction in public places or their removal. The state, however, is not monolithic. Permissible pasts evolve over time given shifts in power and social and cultural change. This involves both ‘retrospective commemoration’ and ‘participatory memorialisation’. The presence and power of the past in peoples’ lives, too, means in practice that memorial landscapes will reflect, in truly democratic societies, the values, experiences and dominant concerns of its citizens.

Conservation and Preservation of Nature Reserves, Monuments andSpecial Architectural or Historic Interest in Nigeria: Towards Promotion of Sustainable Cultural Tourism

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Francis Chuma Osefoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Developed Nations

Some of the renowned world tourism countries have special peculiarities in character in terms of their nature reserves and built environments; that made them stand out for their attractions and visits. These qualities range from conservation and preservation of nature reserves, built environments- epoch architectural supports over the years; historical heritage; political; religious; socio-economic; cultural; and  high technology that enhance culture. The virtues of multi- ethnic groups and multi- cultural nature gave Nigeria a rich cultural heritage, and she is blessed with natural wonders, unique wildlife, and a very favorable climate. More often than not less attention and importance are placed over the nature reserves and built environments to the detriment of tourism in lieu of other sectors. Summarily the country lacks the culture of conservation and preservation of her abundant resources to promote cultural tourism. Case study strategy was applied in the research tours with reports of personal experiences, documentaries and analyses of sites visited in Europe and Nigeria were highlighted with references to their attributes in terms of structures and features that made up the sites as relate to culture and attraction.The task in keeping rural, city landscapes and nature reserves alive stands out as the secret of communication link from the past to present and the future; which tourism developed nations reap as benefits for tourist attraction.

Studying the Use of Public Spaces in the Library

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francine May
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Full Paper ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The Public ◽  
Observational Technique ◽  
Mental Mapping ◽  
Mapping Observation

Methods for studying the public places of libraries, including mental mapping, observation and patron mapping are reviewed. Reflections on the experience of adapting an observational technique for use in multiple different library spaces are shared. Sont passées en revue les méthodes pour étudier la place publique des bibliothèques, y compris les représentations mentales, l’observation et la catégorisation des usagers. L’auteure partage ses réflexions sur l’expérience d’adapter une technique d’observation à différents espaces de bibliothèque. ***Full paper in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science***

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