Suomen nykynuorten käsityksiä Karjalasta

Wells, Chloe

doi:10.33345/idantutkimus.88848

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“…In this section, we present the results from our Finnish study and from our Polish study, grouped thematically. The results from Finland are based on the question of what meanings and memories young people in Finland today, understood as the "third generation after" its loss, associate with "Karelia" (see also Wells, 2019Wells, , 2020Wells and Łukianow, 2019). The results from Poland are based around addressing the issue of the memory of forced resettlement as it is passed down the generations.…”

Section: How the "Third Generation After" Remember Karelia And Kresymentioning

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Territorial phantom pains: Third-generation postmemories of territorial changes

Łukianow

Wells

2022

Memory Studies

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Forced border changes and population transfers have affected many nation-states. However, memories of these events are usually described as part of a “unique” national memory of cartographic violence, “lost” territories, and victimhood. In popular representations, often reinforced by the personal memories of the wartime resettled, the territories ceded from Poland (Kresy) and Finland (Karelia) to the Soviet Union after World War II are remembered and imagined as “timeless” places which preserve and encapsulate “Polishness” and “Finnishness.” “Territorial phantom pains” is a central framing idea for us. We understand phantom pains as a social emotion related to memories and postmemories that tells members of a community that the body of their nation is not complete without the detached territories. Phantom pains are nostalgic, romanticizing, but also exclusive keeping memories of the territorial loss as not (only) memories of personal loss of home and heimat, but of a national loss.

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Section: How the "Third Generation After" Remember Karelia And Kresymentioning

confidence: 99%