The post-communist condition : public and private discourses of transformation / edited by Aleksandra Galasińska, Dariusz Galasiński.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galasińska, Aleksandra.

Galasiński, Dariusz.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 37.

Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 1569-9463 ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Poland.

Discourse analysis.

Discourse analysis--Political aspects--Poland.

Physical Description:

ix, 264 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. Proposing a macro-micro approach to discourse analysis and transformation, it examines a spectrum of topics including Polish history, with its 'interpreters'; changes in political bodies and the media, policies of the Catholic Church and the Institute of National Remembrance; xenophobia and anti-Semitism, with the emergence of unemployment and homelessness; experiences of new gender relations and migrations. In effect, drawing upon unique sets of data, the book shows how post-communist transformation can be understood through analyses of the changing public and private discourses. It shows Polish post-communism as a fragile and uneasy transformation, with people and institutions struggling to make sense of it and of life within it. The volume will be of interest to a broad range of social scientists: discourse analysts, sociologists, modern historians and political scientists, as well as to the informed lay public.

Contents:

Living between history and the present: the Polish post-communist condition / Aleksandra Galasińska & Dariusz Galasiński

Part I: History and ideology at work. "Nie rzucim ziemi skad nasz ród" : Polish contemporary discourses about soil and nation / Michał Buchowski

Collective memory in transition : commemorating the end of the Second World War in Poland / Anna Horolets

"In the name of the truth one has to say

" : anti-Semitic statements in the memorial discourse about the crosses in Auschwitz / Imke Hansen

Sitting on the fence : identity and Polish narratives of the 1st-May celebrations / Dariusz Galasiński

Part II: Mentors and mediators. Denying the right to speak in public : sexist and homophobic discourses in post-1989 Poland / Natalia Krzyżanowska

Discursive construction of post-communism in pastoral letters of the Polish Episcopate's Conference 1990-2005 / Katarzyna Skowronek

Fashioning a post-communist political identity : the case of Poland's democratic left alliance / Robert Brier

Power, knowledge and faith discourse : the Institute of National Remembrance / Marta Kurkowska-Budzan

Part III: Living post-communism. It's all about work / Aleksandra Galasinska

Transition to nowhere : homelessness in post-communist Poland as the hand of fate / Maria Mendel & Tomasz Szkudlarek

New discourses of migration in post-communist Poland : conceptual metaphors and personal narratives in the reconstruction of the hegemonic discourse / Małgorzata Fabiszak

Post-communist masculinities / Dariusz Galasiński.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613773500

9781281042514

128104251X

9789027288172

9027288178

OCLC:

649479774