(Re)framing Uncertainties and Reproducing Sense of Small Town Agency: the Example of Two Small Towns in Czechoslovakia (1928-1948)

Abstract

This conference paper examined how uncertainties were verbalized in the public discourses of two small towns in Czechoslovakia in ca 1928-1948, and how they were given meaning in the ways that helped reproduce a sense of agency and capacity to navigate through what were essentially uncontrollable conditions.

Keywords

• Small towns
• resilience
• uncertainty
• urban agency
• crisis
• local media