The Post-Communist Condition
Public and private discourses of transformation
Editors
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.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 37] 2010. xi, 264 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 7 June 2010
Published online on 7 June 2010
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Notes on contributors | pp. vii–ix
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Table and figure | p. xi
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Living between history and the present: The Polish post-communist conditionAleksandra Galasińska and Dariusz Galasiński | pp. 1–20
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Part I. History and ideology at work
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“Nie rzucim ziemi skad nasz ród”: Polish contemporary discourses about soil and nationMichał Buchowski | pp. 23–46
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Collective memory in transition: Commemorating the end of the Second World War in PolandAnna Horolets | pp. 47–66
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“In the name of the truth one has to say…”: Anti-Semitic statements in the memorial discourse about the crosses in AuschwitzImke Hansen | pp. 67–88
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Sitting on the fence: Identity and Polish narratives of the 1st-May celebrationsDariusz Galasiński | pp. 89–102
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Part II. Mentors and mediators
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Denying the right to speak in public: Sexist and homophobic discourses in post-1989 PolandNatalia Krzyżanowska | pp. 105–130
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Discursive construction of post-communism in pastoral letters of the Polish Episcopate’s Conference 1990–2005Katarzyna Skowronek | pp. 131–150
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Fashioning a post-communist political identity: The case of Poland’s Democratic Left AllianceRobert Brier | pp. 151–166
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Power, knowledge and faith discourse: The Institute of National RemembranceMarta Kurkowska-Budzan | pp. 167–188
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Part III. Living post-communism
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It’s all about workAleksandra Galasińska | pp. 191–210
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Transition to nowhere: Homelessness in post-communist Poland as the hand of fateMaria Mendel and Tomasz Szkudlarek | pp. 211–228
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New discourses of migration in post-communist Poland: Conceptual metaphors and personal narratives in the reconstruction of the hegemonic discourseMalgorzata Fabiszak | pp. 229–246
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Post-communist masculinitiesDariusz Galasiński | pp. 247–262
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Index | pp. 263–264
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General