Weaponizing the Past (eBook)

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

Kate Korycki (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
232 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-352-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.8.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Worlds of Memory
• Reihe/Serie: Worlds of Memory
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Memory Studies, History: 20th Century to Present
• ISBN-10: 1-80539-352-9 / 1805393529
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80539-352-8 / 9781805393528