„Nowohuckie podwórka” – od podwórka. Spojrzenie etnologa

Ewa Baniowska-Kopacz

doi:10.23858/JUE17.2019.004

Published: 2019-12-31

Vol. 17 (2019)

“The backyards of Nowa Huta” as seen from the backyard. An ethnologist’s view

Ewa Baniowska-Kopacz

Journal of Urban Ethnology

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE17.2019.004

Abstract

The article discusses the topic of spaces adjacent to houses in the oldest area of Nowa Huta, a district of Cracow established in the middle of the 20th century. These spaces are mostly courtyards, and especially
household gardens located in those courtyards, e.g. at the front walls of houses, between the entryways or in
the backyards, directly under apartment windows. Such gardens – separated spaces established and farmed
by the residents of Nowa Huta – provide a basis for presenting the local community. The article constitutes
an attempt at analysing the community through those domesticated patches of land, transformed by the
residents’ actions into a place, i.e. a tamed space endowed with individual features and constituting a part of
the life of individual residents and the community as a whole.

Keywords:

space, place, residence, rootedness, backyard, Nowa Huta gardens, Cracow-Nowa Huta, Poland

Ewa Baniowska-Kopacz

ewa.baniowska.kopacz@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8091-6315

Affiliation:

The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS , Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Ewa Baniowska-Kopacz, PhD is an ethnologist and anthropologist of culture working at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her main area of research interest are the phenomena related to the mercantilization culture and social life. Her sphere of interests include e.g. the processes of creating the image of a location realized in urban communities, including small-town communities, as well as the processes of shaping contemporary identity on the basis of the approach to the past, researched in the context of local communities.

“The backyards of Nowa Huta” as seen from the backyard. An ethnologist’s view

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