ISBN:
9789637326554
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Harper, Jo Poland's Memory Wars : Essays on Illiberalism
DDC:
306.209438
Keywords:
Collective memory-Political aspects-Poland
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Political culture-Poland
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Collective memory ; Political aspects ; Poland
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Political culture ; Poland
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both the informed and nonspecialist reader. The essays approach the questions why and how PiS: Law and Justice, the party of Kaczynski, returned to power and why and how it is doing what it is doing while in power. They help understand and make sense of how "history" plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The language about PiS in Western media tends to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain largely dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was just fast enough in understanding its electorate, and helped Poland simply reverting to normalcy? Isn't this New Normal a lot like the Old Normal: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist? The book looks at the current struggle between one 'Poland' and another; between a Westernlooking Poland and an inwardlooking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an 'Eastern' problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland's illiberalism applicable on a broader scale
Abstract:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction: Jo Harper, Illiberal, Aliberal, Anti-liberal? -- PART I Essays on PiS -- Jo Harper, Never Mind the Boleks! -- Andrzej Rychard, PiS: The End of the Beginning -- David Ost, Authoritarian Drive in Poland -- Brian Porter-Szűcs, The Triumph of National Communism -- Artur Lipiński & Agnieszka Stępińska, Polish Right-wing Populism -- Nicholas Richardson, Crisis, What Crisis? -- Jan Muś, Foreign Relations in the Age of Kaczyński -- PART II PiS's Politics of History -- Joanna Średnicka, The New Romantics -- Jan Darasz, The History Men -- Ewa Stańczyk, Poland's Culture of Commemoration -- Dariusz Czaja, Poland's Theater of Death -- PART III PiS's Politics of Normality -- Urszula Chowaniec, The Quest for the "Normal" Family -- Tomasz Basiuk, LGBTQ and Polish Patriarchy -- Remi Adekoya, An Identity Reset -- Conclusion: Jo Harper -- Part IV Interviews -- Jan Gross, History As We May Wish It To Be -- Neal Ascherson, 966 and All That -- Mikołaj Kunicki, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same -- Mateusz Kijowski, History Repeats Itself -- Pawel Ukielski, Understand the War, Understand Poland -- Neal Pease, Defenders of the Faith -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Timeline -- Appendix II: Glossary -- The Cast -- Politics -- Concepts -- Romantic and Post-Romantic Poets and Dramatists -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back cover
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