Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Upper Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin, once dominated by the landscape of chimneys and mining shafts, are currently undergoing a dynamic transformation, where nature is reclaiming areas previously subjected to industrial exploitation. The non-fiction literature analysed in this article reflects these changes, documenting the blurring of boundaries between the "green" and "black" Silesia. Upper Silesia emerges as a space resulting from extensive industrialization and the succession of nature, which annexes areas liberated from industrial exploitation. New ecosystems are forming, where the radical division between nature and culture loses its meaning. Places such as KWK Kazimierz-Juliusz or the areas around the steelworks in Szopienice, once dominated by industry, are now experiencing natural vegetation succession, creating new forms of life on degraded lands.
Source: Zaranie Śląskie Seria druga
Authors: Małgorzata Wójcik-Dudek, Magdalena Ochwat
Institution: University of Silesia in Katowice
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412481208