Zabúda Brno na Zbrojovku? Praktiky formovania urbánnej pamäti prostredníctvom individuálnej angažovanosti aktérov

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Title in English Is Brno Forgetting Zbrojovka? Practices of Urban Memory Formation Established through Actors’ Individual Engagement
Authors

SZALÓ Csaba SEJKOVÁ Apolónia RAPOŠOVÁ Ivana

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sociální studia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Field Sociology, demography
Keywords brownfield; pragmatic sociology; justification; urban memory; Boltanski; Thévenot
Description This article attempts to analyse controversies over former armament factory Zbrojovka Brno. The area, full of various and often contradictory symbolical meanings, constitutes a significant urban memory space. We claim that this brownfield forms a part of urban memory also beyond its built materiality, mainly through its symbolic presence in practices of various social actors. The paper encompasses two closely interlinked aspects of contemporary urban memory practices addressing the past lives in the city: those shaping, what is remembered, as well as those influencing what should be remembered in the future. The first consist of narratives circulating in the discourse of the actors who are engaged within this brownfield, the second is represented by forms of justifications and critiques that are considered legitimate in disputes about the future of “Zbrojovka”. The analytical framework used in the research draws on the theoretical contribution of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, especially on their pragmatic theory of justifiable orders of worth pluralism.
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