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The study explores divergent representations and cultural identity in a historically contested landscape. The first form of representations includes politically amended place marketing. It is analysed how public discourse on a city’s development and regeneration articulates inscriptions of local authorities to pursue political-economic agendas. The second form of representations is diaspora’s imaginary of a pedigree place that derives from genealogical research and travel. In this way, genealogy enables counter-memories to uncritical marketing and ‘alternative’ voices in recast of local history. A contested landscape is conceptualized through politics of past to reflect stakeholders’ present-day concerns. The empiric study is conducted in Lviv, a city with complicated past and national identity due to shifting powers. The fieldwork comprises the ongoing marketing campaign in Lviv launched in connection to the Euro-2012, and the Polish, Jewish and West-Ukrainian diasporic representations. The findings show how the nationalistic and the Eurocentric meta-narratives embed the identity discourses of Lviv official élite, and how diasporic texts suggest a genre of resistance to the marketing scripts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is now increasingly recognized that aviation is an important driver of individual and global mobility. Growth in mobility is not evenly distributed, however: recent studies indicate that a relatively small, highly mobile part of society may account for a large share of the total distances travelled. In reviewing one of the processes that may lead to growth in individual aeromobility, the paper focuses on frequent flyer programmes (FFPs) as an institutionalized framework for high mobility, detailing how these programmes reward and thus increase interest in aeromobility. Results are linked to a number of observations regarding the interrelationship of high mobility and social status, and substantiated by a survey of FFP members and their perspectives on benefits provided by such programmes. It is argued that FFPs reward high mobility and discursively interlink frequent flying with social status, which is an important element in the development of mobility patterns which shape and create the social structures that 'necessitate' air travel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses castles in the German cities of Potsdam and Berlin, from their original construction to their reconstruction. The author examines the aesthetic, practical and ideological arguments concerning the future of these castles. The Potsdam City Palace is examined, and the author states that the original building was badly damaged by British bombs during the spring of 1945. The palace was blown up by East German authorities in 1960. The article focuses on the period after 1945 while examining the sequence of events that form the background to the decision to rebuild the castles of Potsdam and Berlin.