Abstract
Since the beginning of the new millennium, the concept of Intermarium has enjoyed a renaissance in the domain of international relations and in popular political discourse. The author contends that it may serve as a useful narrative framework for exploring the multilayered urban environments of Lviv, Wrocław, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău whose legacies of Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, and violent ethno-nationalism have been revisited over the last decades, and whose contemporary denizens have been searching to incorporate democratic European outlooks. While volumes and volumes have been written about history of these borderline cities, not that much is known about how the present-day urbanites make sense of the cityscapes stripped of their historical populations, and how they deal with memories about the perished people. This essay suggests a tentative approach to analysis of engagements with the perished cultural diversity. In particular, it tests a possibility of combining theoretical propositions formulated within memory studies with broader conceptualizations of borderlands, cosmopolitanism, and hybridity.
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Szczerek (2017).
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Mishkova and Trencsényi (2017, p. 3).
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Delanty (2013, p. 212).
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O’Dowd (2012, p. 166).
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Czaplicka et al. (2003, p. 17).
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Huyssen (2003, p. 7).
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Dwyer and Alderman (2008).
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Delanty (2013, pp. 203–214).
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Leggewie (2011).
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Gerwarth and Malinowski (2010, p. 190).
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Redlich (2002).
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Ther (2005, p. 268).
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Deletant (2003, p. 143).
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Narvselius and Bernsand (2014).
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Haynes (2003, p. 3).
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Haynes (2003, p. 103).
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Larsson (2011, p. 232).
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Larsson (2011, pp. 233–249).
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Mühle (2016, pp. 226–227).
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Kaszuba (1997, p. 38).
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Mühle (2016, p. 242).
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Mühle (2016, p. 122).
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Зарицький (2011).
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Agier (2016, p. 9).
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Humphrey (2012, p. 20).
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Dwyer and Alderman (2008, pp. 169–170).
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Mizutani (2013, p. 38).
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Czaplicka (2003, pp. 372–409).
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Kraidy (1999).
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Bhabha (1996).
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Rewakowich (2018, p. 6).
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Follis (2012, p. 181).
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Huyssen (2003).
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Keightley and Pickering (2012).
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Huyssen (2003, p. 7).
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Huyssen (2003, p. 19).
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Dwyer and Alderman (2008, pp. 165–178).
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Winter (2010, pp. 11–34).
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Azaryahu and Foote (2008).
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Tilmans et al. (2010, p. 7).
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Ashworth (1991, p. 192).
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Hirsch (2008).
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Mink and Neumayer (2013, p. 10).
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Winter (2010, p. 11).
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Landsberg (2004, p. 3).
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Blacker (2013, p. 178).
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Murzyn (2008, pp. 315–346).
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Klopot (2012, pp. 133–134).
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Ashworth et al. (2007, p. 48).
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Gelazis et al. (2009, p. 1).
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Rothschild (1989).
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de Certeau (1984, pp. 35–36).
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Murzyn (2008, pp. 315–346).
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Андрухович (2011, p. 369).
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Narvselius, E. (2020). Cultural Diversity in the Area Between the Black and Baltic Seas: A Tentative Approach. In: Bogdanova, O., Makarychev, A. (eds) Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24878-9_5
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