TITLE

EVERYDAY MILIEUX AND CULTURE OF DISPLACEMENT: A COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION INTO SPACE, PLACE AND (NON)ATTACHMENT WITHIN THE GERMAN-POLISH TWIN CITY GUBEN/GUBIN

AUTHOR(S)

Durrschmidt, J�rg; Matthiesen, Ulf

PUB. DATE

August 2002

SOURCE

Canadian Journal of Urban Research;Summer2002, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p17

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

While there is in social sciences an implicit assumption that by city culture we refer to metropolitan culture, this article attempts to shed a different light on the �Culture of Cities.� It approaches the issue from within the post-socialist everyday experience of people living in a German-Polish twin city on the outskirts of the larger Berlin-Brandenburg Region. The article outlines a longstanding �culture of displacement� as dominant for that area, and asks to what extent this rather peripheralized area is equipped to come to terms with the options and pressures of globalization and European integration. Drawing on the concept of milieu, the article provides evidence for new dynamics of space, place, and attachment in the context of post-socialist pathways of transformation. It goes on to show the impact this has both on the symbolisms of belonging and on attempts at cross-border urban governance. The article concludes by arguing for a renewed emphasis on the meso- or regional level of analysis in urban studies.

ACCESSION #

7726646

Tags: URBAN research;  CULTURE & globalization;  POLAND -- Social life & customs;  GERMANS -- Social conditions;  GLOBALIZATION;  CULTURE;  SOCIALISM;  URBAN studies

 

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