Vulnerability and Resilience Embedded in Discourses: Literature, Media, and Actors’ Cultural Knowledge in German and Polish River Regions

The sociology of knowledge approach to discourse assumes that cultural knowledge—and thus spaces—are generated and shared through discourse. Actors’ perceptions vulnerability practices create resilience should be interrelated with provided by the relevant discourses local historical influence. However, these assumptions have not been thoroughly examined. This study compares river-related (concerning human–river relationships: ecocentric anthropocentric perspectives) in German Polish literary canons, public media populations flood-prone city districts along Odra River. It concludes actors’ interrelates produced national regional culturally ideas are discursively embedded.