When the world went color: Emotions,senses and spaces in contemporary accounts of the Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution |
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| Authors: | Susanna Trnka |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Utah, Chemical Engineering Department, 50 S. Central Campus Drive, Merrill Engineering Building, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States;2. Utah Geological Survey, United States;3. University of Utah, Energy and Geoscience Institute, United States;1. Department of Thermal Engineering, SEP Key Laboratory of Eco-Industry, School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, Liaoning, China;2. Institute of Thermal Energy Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;1. University of Virginia, USA;2. University of Texas, USA;1. Ergonomics Laboratory – FMH - Lisbon University, Estrada da Costa – Cruz Quebrada, 1499-002, Portugal;2. CIAUD - Research Centre for Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, Rua Sá Nogueira, Alto da Ajuda, 1349-055 Lisboa, Portugal;3. UNIDCOM, IADE – Creative University. Av. D. Carlos I, 4, 1200-649 Lisbon, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | Two decades after the dramatic conclusion of socialist rule in Czechoslovakia, Czechs’ personal recollections of the 1989 Velvet Revolution offer a counter-point to official histories of this period by downplaying the revolution’s role as a catalyst for political and economic modernization to focus on its affective, sensory and other bodily dimensions. In this paper I argue that Czechs’ personal memories of 1989 convey the feeling of having (in local terminology) “really lived” through the revolution by highlighting its emotional and sensorial impact and by locating the physical self within local, public spaces that were invested with novel political and personal meanings. Crucial here is the situating of not just memory, but also emotion, affect, and sensation, in sites that are culturally coded as “public” in distinction to the “private” realms of domesticity, the family, and the body, suggesting how the revolution instigated a significant experiential rupture between these two domains. In doing so, these accounts illuminate how local sites can become the nexus of not only personal and collective historical memories but also of emotional and sensorial anchorages of self to event. |
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