Evoking Polish memory state, self and the Communist past in transition

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Witeska-Mlynarczyk, Anna, 1973- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2014
Frankfurt am main, [Germany] : 2014.
Colección:Warsaw Studies in Contemporary History, Volume 3
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654098406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; Notes on Transcription; Introduction; Chapter One. Hidden Dialogicality: personal memory, expert knowledge, historical policy, and pedagogy of patriotism; Chapter Two. The Mediating Role of the State in a Social Practice of Acquiring a Hero/Victim Subject Position; Chapter Three. Religious Framework for Embodied Mutual Orientation: a hero/victim experience situated in the Catholic Church; Chapter Four.The Archbishop is not the Church! Talk in the Association as a collaborative moral action
  • Chapter Five. The Space of Ambiguity: between the collectively enacted frames and the experience of the self in timeChapter Six. Between Acknowledgement and Erasure: socialdynamics behind the production of political identities materialized in the public space; Chapter Seven. The Factory of Pathologies: collectivized imageries about the former security officers under the democratic state; Chapter Eight. Excavating Memories of Political Violence in a 'Lawful' State: a case-study of a security officer's trial; Chapter Nine. Resolving Disorientation through Narrative:two case-studies; Conclusion
  • Bibliography