基本説明
This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. Combining 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, with the emergence of unemployment and homelessness; experiences of new gender relations and migrations.
Full Description
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
1. Notes on contributors; 2. Table and figure; 3. Living between history and the present: The Polish post-communist condition (by Galasinska, Aleksandra); 4. Part I. History and ideology at work; 5. "Nie rzucim ziemi skad nasz rod": Polish contemporary discourses about soil and nation (by Buchowski, Michal); 6. Collective memory in transition: Commemorating the end of the Second World War in Poland (by Horolets, Anna); 7. "In the name of the truth one has to say...": Anti-Semitic statements in the memorial discourse about the crosses in Auschwitz (by Hansen, Imke); 8. Sitting on the fence: Identity and Polish narratives of the 1st-May celebrations (by Galasinski, Dariusz); 9. Part II. Mentors and mediators; 10. Denying the right to speak in public: Sexist and homophobic discourses in post-1989 Poland (by Krzyzanowska, Natalia); 11. Discursive construction of post-communism in pastoral letters of the Polish Episcopate's Conference 1990-2005 (by Skowronek, Katarzyna); 12. Fashioning a post-communist political identity: The case of Poland's Democratic Left Alliance (by Brier, Robert); 13. Power, knowledge and faith discourse: The Institute of National Remembrance (by Kurkowska-Budzan, Marta); 14. Part III. Living post-communism; 15. It's all about work (by Galasinska, Aleksandra); 16. Transition to nowhere: Homelessness in post-communist Poland as the hand of fate (by Mendel, Maria); 17. New discourses of migration in post-communist Poland: Conceptual metaphors and personal narratives in the reconstruction of the hegemonic discourse (by Fabiszak, Malgorzata); 18. Post-communist masculinities (by Galasinski, Dariusz); 19. Index
