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Love thy Neighbor(hood Association): Neighborhood Perspectives on City Support in Minneapolis following the Neighborhood Revitalization Project
(2025-05-01) Johnson-Taubmann, Alexander
The City of Minneapolis’ approach to local planning and engagement efforts has shifted over the past four decades. In the 1990s and 2000s the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) positioned neighborhood associations as the principal agents of change in their communities.
Over time as city-level goals have changed, so has the City’s approach to neighborhood association support and empowerment. Prior literature on the NRP has focused primarily on assessing its outcomes, finding that the program disproportionately benefited middle-class, white
homeowners. Previous research has relied on analyses of spending patterns and neighborhood level outcomes. I employ qualitative interviewing in order to look beyond an impact analysis, to better understand how the transition from the decentralized model of the NRP to a more centralized model today has impacted the operations and work of neighborhood associations. I find that the models of neighborhood oversight that followed the NRP, principally Neighborhoods 2020, have devalued the role of neighborhood associations in community level
outreach and planning. Whereas during the NRP neighborhood associations were responsible for local planning and outreach, today they are seen as one of many tools in the City’s approach to local planning and equitable engagement. This shift has had tangible effects on the operations of neighborhood associations, with many feeling their ability to sustain themselves financially is in jeopardy, and thus so is their ability to meet the expectations the City has for neighborhood associations.
Toppling Monuments, Constructing Museums: Political Repurposing of Wartime Memory in Post-Communist Poland
(2025-05-01) Fried, Olivia
This paper examines how museums have increasingly supplanted the function of monuments as dominant sites of memory (lieux de mémoire), using Poland as a case study. It argues that while monuments have historically played a central role in nation-building and shaping collective
memory of a painful past, museums now offer a more flexible and sophisticated platform through which political actors can curate historical narratives that reinforce their present agendas. Through a comparative analysis of instructive Polish monuments and two museums— the Warsaw Rising Museum and the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk—this study explores how the development of memory institutions reflects the evolving historical onsciousness of post-Communist Poland. Particular attention is given to the role of Poland’s conservative party, Law and Justice (PiS), in using museums’ immersive and interactive elements to advance a patriotic and often revisionist account of Polish WWII memory. By contrasting these trends with international examples, such as Kyiv’s publicly praised National WWII Museum, the paper highlights how museums are uniquely powerful—and politically contested—tools of memory. The findings raise broader questions about how political actors across the spectrum utilize memory institutions to shape national identity and serve its present interests in the 21st century. It also calls for future research into the impact of museal narratives on public historical understanding, and the impact of conservatism in museum curation.
College of Continuing and Professional Studies Commencement Program, 2025
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