Viticultural Traditions and Local Memory

Authors

  • Katarína Popelková

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3712

Keywords:

post-communist transformation, local memory, viticulture

Abstract

This paper discusses the process of construction of representation of an urban space as a socially determined phenomenon under the conditions of the postcommunist transformation of Slovakia. The subject matter of the analysis is the occurrence of facts from the viticultural past – a common feature of two neighboring towns – in their current public discourse. On the basis of data gather through archival-document study and ethnological field research, the paper analyzes collective motivations in the process of construction of collective memory and their linkages to concrete conditions of revitalization of private entrepreneurship after 1989.

Author Biography

Katarína Popelková

has been a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava since 1997. In her PhD thesis (completed in 1997) she focused on the development of studies of urban space within the ethnology of Slovakia in the 2nd half of the 20th century as well as on the reconstruction of a model of social communication in the towns of Pezinok and Skalica in Western Slovakia in the period before the WW II. Her further fields of interest include identity of ethnic minorities (Czech working migrants in the towns of Slovakia during the interwar period), relations within border regions (the situation at the newly established national border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia after 1992). Since the end of the 1990s, she has directed her research interests towards a profession group of wine producers and wine merchants in the towns of the most important wine region of Slovakia – the Malé Karpaty viticultural region. Since 2000, she has been conducting her fieldwork in the towns of Modra and Pezinok where she examines issues related to the post-socialist transformation of agriculture and entrepreneurship as well as manifestations of viniculture in the everyday life and social relations of the inhabitants of the above-mentioned towns. Further, she is interested in the process of the constitution of national identity in Slovakia at the time of modernization at the beginning of the 20th century. Her interests also include the history of ethnology in Slovakia. She occasionally teaches in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Comenius University in Bratislava (subject: urban ethnology). Since 2001, she has also been giving lectures at the Department of Slovak Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. Between 1997 and 2004, she worked as a scientific coordinator at the SAS Institute of Ethnology in Bratislava. Since 2004, she has been the Deputy Head of the Institute.

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Published

2008-07-01

How to Cite

Popelková, K. (2008). Viticultural Traditions and Local Memory. Lidé města, 10(2), 76-91. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3712

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2008)

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