The policy of forgetting: Narratives that shaped the 2022 commemorations in Upper Silesia

Anna Muś, Justyna Kijonka, Paweł Sarna, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, University of Silesia, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology, University of Silesia, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Journalism and Communication, University of Silesia

Ethnicities

Published online on December 04, 2025

Abstract

Ethnicities, Ahead of Print.
Forgetting differences among groups within a nation-state as one of the strategies deployed in the nation-building process was established by Ernst Renan in the 1880s. This strategy is defined here as the “policy of forgetting”. However, the analysis of ...