The Post-Communist Condition: Public and Private Discourses by Aleksandra Galasińska (ed.), Dariusz Galasiński (ed.)

By Aleksandra Galasińska (ed.), Dariusz Galasiński (ed.)

This quantity bargains interdisciplinary views on discourses in a single nationwide context of post-communist transformation. presenting a macro-micro method of discourse research and transformation, it examines a spectrum of themes together with Polish heritage, with its ‘interpreters’; alterations in political our bodies and the media, guidelines of the Catholic Church and the Institute of nationwide Remembrance; xenophobia and anti-Semitism, with the emergence of unemployment and homelessness; reviews of recent gender family members and migrations. In impact, drawing upon precise units of information, the publication indicates how post-communist transformation could be understood via analyses of the altering private and non-private discourses. It exhibits Polish post-communism as a delicate and uneasy transformation, with humans and associations suffering to make feel of it and of existence inside of it. the quantity can be of curiosity to a vast diversity of social scientists: discourse analysts, sociologists, sleek historians and political scientists, in addition to to the educated lay public.

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Simultaneously, and on the other hand, only myths and “facts” that fit current interests are utilized from the storehouse of images. In this process the symbols show tremendous flexibility and adaptability. This explains why Rota can be sung on so divergent occasions, and for participants of both it is equally important and serious. For critics of such a nationalist view this repetition of history appears as its own parody. It was hard to predict that blood and soil would assume such a conspicuous role in the discourses occurring in the period of postcommunist transition and EU-accession negotiations.

They perceived the world in a dichotomous way by drawing a picture in which socialism features as the epitome of economic backwardness and social anomy while capitalism as an ideal for human relations that inevitably leads to prosperity and happiness. Troubles in the period of transformation are caused by the persistence of old bad mental habits, the enslaving grip of the famous homo sovieticus. Nevertheless, generations spoiled by these negative routines and practices will slowly die out and we can ultimately expect affluence and contentment afterwards.

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