Rawa: The River That Connects

Edited by Lucyna Sadzikowska Edited by Andrzej Kowalczyk

Book cover: Rawa: The River That Connects

Extent: 196 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Slavic Studies, Social Sciences 

Series: TRANSitions

Language: English

Hardback (Forthcoming)

(October 2026)

ISBN: 9783847120537

Price: $63.00

The Upper Silesian Rawa River: what was, what is and what will it be?


The authors reconstruct past and present discourses surrounding the Rawa River (Upper Silesia), drawing on previous research and highlighting shared themes in interdisciplinary approaches. What these approaches have in common is the conviction that the existing information and data on the river are insufficient, and that any answer to the question, “What is the Rawa?” would inevitably be overly superficial, vague, and perhaps even universally applicable. It remains difficult to define the Rawa’s potential and function, its physical presence in the urban fabric, and, ultimately, its location and materiality as experienced by individuals and communities in Silesian cities.

  • Edited by Lucyna Sadzikowska
  • Edited by Andrzej Kowalczyk