"In Karlov, we were like a Family": Communal memory space as lived mnemonic device

Abstract

This paper attempts to answer the questions of how present perception and conceptualizations of everyday life in the city recreate representations of the past and the image of a long demolished neighbourhood of a workers' colony, and how this image is used as a "mnemonic device" when nar-rators seek to respond to the perceived socio-spatial problems. We deal with what we call "oppressed memory" of a neighbourhood that does not exist in its "memory form" anymore, but is, though, lived as a communal memory space and used as a memory device to respond to the perceived current so-cial and spatial problems of the city of Pilsen and beyond.

Keywords

• collective memory
• community of remembering
• Pilsen
• workers
• narrative identity