259 ČESKÝ LID 100, 2013, 3 STATI / ARTICLES DĚLNICKÁ KOLONIE KARLOV: MÍSTO, PAMĚŤ A IDENTITA 1 PETRA L. BURZOVÁ – ILONA DVOŘÁKOVÁ – ONDŘEJ HEJNAL – MICHAL RŮŽIČKA – LACO TOUŠEK Workers´ colony Karlov: place, memory, identity Abstract: Workers´ colony Karlov was built by Škoda Works in 1913 to accommodate the growing number of its employees. Attached to the factory´s walls and thus spatially segregated from the rest of the city, inhabitants of Karlov built a relatively close-knit neighbourhood community with a strong place-based identity. Based on the analysis of archival material and data from interviews with its former inhabitants, we follow Karlov´s voyage from capitalism to state-socialism at the levels of both macro-structural forces and its´ inhabitants´ experience of everyday life. Built to serve particular economic and political functions for the pre-war capitalist production, Karlov ceased to fulfil these roles under state-socialism which refused to invest in Karlov´s renovation after serious damages caused by an air-raid during the WWII. Slowly losing its macro- structural raison d’être, Karlov was doomed to final demolition in 1986, being represented as an “obstacle” to industrial development. Meeting regularly twice a year and recalling the past, former neighbours from Karlov actively revalidate their collective identity attached to a place that does not exist anymore, thus becoming real community of an imagined place. Key words: working class ethnography, the everyday, production of space, iden- tity, socialism, urban anthropology. 1 Stať je dílčím výstupem z projektu Sídelní a krajinný prostor jako odraz kulturního dědictví a paměti národa (č. DF12P01OVV008), jehož nositelem je Katedra antropologie FF ZČU.