Weaponizing the Past

Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland

Kate Korycki (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-050-3 (ISBN)

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In Poland, contemporary political actors have constructed a narrative of Polish history since 1989 in which Polish and Jewish involvement with communism has created a national concept of “we.” Weaponizing the Past explores the resulting implications of national belonging through a lens of collective memory. Taking a constructivist approach to electoral politics and nation making in Poland’s past, this volume’s dual line of inquiry articulates why and how elites politicize the past, what effect this politicization produces, and contextualizes this politicization to illustrate contemporary production of anti-Semitism.

Kate Korycki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University in Canada. She has published on Polish memory of communism and the Holocaust, on Indigeneity in Canada, sexual identity in Iran, and class and sexuality politics in France.

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Introduction

PART I: THEORY

Chapter 1. Weaponizing the Past, or Memory as Politics

Chapter 2. Theory Localized or Dramatis Personae of Polish Politics

PART II: WEAPONIZING THE PAST: THE CASE OF POLAND

Chapter 3. The Patriots—Using Memory Openly and Belligerently

Chapter 4. The Managers—Using Memory Covertly

Chapter 5. The Liberals—Using Memory Defensively

Chapter 6. The Objectors—Refusing Memory as Political Weapon

Conclusion: Looking Beyond: Weaponizing the Past and a Populist Moment

Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Worlds of Memory
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80539-050-3 / 1805390503
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-050-3 / 9781805390503
Zustand	Neuware