%0 Journal Article
%T Coalpolis – Metropolitan Relation of Cities and “Under-Grounds”
%A Tomczok, Marta
%J Wielogłos
%V 2023
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.23.006.17994
%N Issue 1 (55) 2023 Narracje lokalne, regionalne, peryferyjne
%P 111-129
%K coalpolis, coal, utopia, literature, art, Upper Silesia, Dąbrowa Basin
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/weglopolis-metropolitalne-zwiazki-miast-i-pod-powierzchni
%X The article proposes the use of a new concept of coal city, which allows describing regions of hard coal mining and post-mining regions by taking into account both their geology as well as their mining and economic culture. Węglopolis (Coal City) is a perspective on literature and art, particularly useful in attempts to assess the past of coal regions and design their future. The author shows the correlation of coalpolises both with the available naming tradition (Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolia, polis, megalopolis), as well as with research on the Carbocene, a specified variant of the Anthropocene, in which the role of hard coal in creating and destroying societies, the natural environment and culture is taken into account.