Post-Communist Poland - Contested Pasts and Future Identities

by Ewa Ochman
Post-Communist Poland - Contested Pasts and Future Identities
Author: Ewa Ochman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135916004
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This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland and impacts on foreign and domestic policy. The book outlines the detail of the new hegemonic national myths which are being established but also investigates fragmentation and diversification of commemorative practices at the local level that has the most potential to challenge the dominant vision of national Polish identity, historically centred on martyrdom, heroism and independence, as less relevant to Poland’s new aspirations for the future.

Post-Communist Poland - Contested Pasts and Future Identities

by Ewa Ochman
Post-Communist Poland - Contested Pasts and Future Identities
Author: Ewa Ochman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135915938
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This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting shapes present power constellations in Poland and impacts on foreign and domestic policy. The book outlines the detail of the new hegemonic national myths which are being established but also investigates fragmentation and diversification of commemorative practices at the local level that has the most potential to challenge the dominant vision of national Polish identity, historically centred on martyrdom, heroism and independence, as less relevant to Poland’s new aspirations for the future.

Global Challenges

by Katarzyna Podhorodecka
Global Challenges
Author: Katarzyna Podhorodecka
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 235
Release:
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ISBN: 3031602382
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Interpreting Contentious Memory

by Thomas DeGloma
Interpreting Contentious Memory
Author: Thomas DeGloma
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2023-06-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529218691
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Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation, and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities. Featuring an international group of scholars, this book makes important contributions to social memory studies, but also shows how studying memory is vital to our understanding of enduring social problems that span the globe.

De-Commemoration

by Sarah Gensburger
De-Commemoration
Author: Sarah Gensburger
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2023-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1805391089
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In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Western world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance. Drawing on research from experts on memory dynamics across various disciplines, this extensive collection seeks to make sense of the current state of de-commemoration as it transforms contemporary societies around the world.

Troubled Pasts in Europe

by Rok Zupančič
Troubled Pasts in Europe
Author: Rok Zupančič
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2023-09-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529233631
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Based on the findings of a major research project, this book investigates how European societies confront their troubled pasts today. In particular, the text explores what kinds of measures can be taken and which strategies endorsed to facilitate the process of overcoming difficult historic legacies in seven European states: Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Cyprus and Poland. The book is written by an international team of experts and examines strategies and actions in both policy making and civil society of European countries, as well as throughout the EU as a collective.

Jews and Poles in the Holocaust Exhibitions of Kraków, 1980–2013

by Janek Gryta
Jews and Poles in the Holocaust Exhibitions of Kraków, 1980–2013
Author: Janek Gryta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2020-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030389790
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This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment. By examining the ways in which the Holocaust has been exhibited in Kraków, it investigates the impact local memory work has had on Polish collective memory and problematizes the importance of the fall of Communism for memory work. Using the Polish case study, it contributes to international debates on the nature of urban memory. It brings to the fore the role of mid-ranking governmental and municipal activists for local remembrance, investigates the relationship between the form and the content of the exhibitions, and highlights the importance of authenticity and emotional evocations for Holocaust remembrance. In particular, it focuses on the emergence of cosmopolitan memory of the Holocaust, a process with local, Kraków, sources.

Transitional Justice in Poland

by Frances Millard
Transitional Justice in Poland
Author: Frances Millard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-01-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0755601343
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In this study of the mechanisms of transitional justice in Poland, Frances Millard asks: How does society come to terms with its past? How should it punish the perpetrators of oppression and acknowledge its victims? In the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe the task of answering these questions came down to the need to eliminate the communist parties' hold over the state, the economy and society in order to move towards democracy. Millard argues that the key step in achieving this was uncovering the truth about the previous regime's past, prosecuting the perpetrators of past crimes and providing compensation and restitution for its victims. Through the specific case of Poland, Millard provides a comprehensive assessment of the mechanisms and institutions used to achieve this, such as lustration, law enforcement through a Constitutional Tribunal and institutions dedicated to dealing with the past such as the Institute of National Remembrance. Crucially, these processes have assumed new significance in recent years after the Law and Justice Party came to power in 2015, using transitional justice as a tool of political control which has enabled the restructuring of Polish democracy.

Public History in Poland

by Joanna Wojdon
Public History in Poland
Author: Joanna Wojdon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 100050588X
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This volume presents various aspects of public history practices in Poland, alongside their historical development and theoretical reflections on public history. Despite a long tradition and variety of forms of public history, the very term "public history", or literally speaking "history in the public sphere", has been in use in Poland only since the 2010s. This edited collection contains chapters that focus on numerous practices and media forms in public history including historical memory, heritage tourism, historical re-enactments, memes and graphic novels, films, archives, archaeology and oral history. As such, the volume brings together the Polish experiences to wider international audiences and shares Polish controversies related to public history within the academic discourse, beyond media news and politically engaged commentaries. Furthermore, it sheds crucial light on the developments of collective memory, historical and political debates, the history of Poland and East-Central Europe, and the politics of post-World War Two and post-communist societies. Authored by a team of academic historians and practitioners from the field, Public History in Poland is the perfect resource for students from a variety of disciplines including Public History, Heritage, Museum Studies, Anthropology, and Archaeology.