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The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime – have actively engaged in rep...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-495742021-06-16T12:09:47Z Evoking Polish Memory Witeska-Mlynarczyk, Anna Communist Erinnerung Evoking Geschichtlichkeit Kommunismus Memory memory landscape Mlynarczyk Polish politische Gewalt Politische Identität State Transition Witeska bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLX 21st century history: from c 2000 - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime – have actively engaged in representations and claims about the communist past in the contemporary reality of one Polish town. The material is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during the years 2006-2008. The author focuses on the processes of reconstruction of memories and subjectivities taking place at the intersection of individuals, civic society, state bureaucracy and politics. The book focuses on the beliefs, hopes and fears of people who became the subjects of historical policy during their lifetimes. 2021-06-16T10:24:39Z 2021-06-16T10:24:39Z 2014 book ONIX_20210616_9783653032321_17 9783653032321 9783653994896 9783653994902 9783631641637 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49574 eng Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History application/pdf n/a 9783653032321.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/978-3-653-03232-1 10.3726/978-3-653-03232-1 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783653032321 9783653994896 9783653994902 9783631641637 3 253 Bern open access
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description The book offers an interdisciplinary but very grounded look at the question of memory politics in contemporary Poland. It describes the conflicting ways in which two groups of people – the former anti-communist activists and the former officers of the repressive regime – have actively engaged in representations and claims about the communist past in the contemporary reality of one Polish town. The material is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted during the years 2006-2008. The author focuses on the processes of reconstruction of memories and subjectivities taking place at the intersection of individuals, civic society, state bureaucracy and politics. The book focuses on the beliefs, hopes and fears of people who became the subjects of historical policy during their lifetimes.
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