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Reclaiming Forgotten Pasts, Envisioning Ecological Futures: Jewish Memory Alliances for a Polish Urban Wasteland

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Abstract

Urban wastelands, like the abandoned Edmund Szyc Stadium in Poznań—once a forced labor camp for Jews during the German occupation and now a habitat for an emergent ecosystem—exist between obsolete past functions and uncertain futures, offering opportunities to reconnect with suppressed cultural memories. This paper argues that such sites can challenge dominant historical narratives by fostering more-than-human heterotopic alliances in urban space. By intertwining the material and ecological dimensions of place with non-material fragments of memory and cultural significance, these spaces not only contest dominant memory politics and spatial production but also serve as bridges between past and future.

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