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Poland's Memory Wars : Essays on Illiberalism / ed. by Jo Harper.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2018]Copyright date: 2018Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789637326554
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.2438/03 23
LOC classification:
  • JN6769.A5758 P65 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction: Illiberal, Aliberal, Anti-liberal? -- PART I Essays on PiS -- CHAPTER 1 NEVER MIND THE BOLEKS! -- CHAPTER 2 PIS: THE END OF THE BEGINNING -- CHAPTER 3 AUTHORITARIAN DRIVE IN POLAND -- CHAPTER 4 THE TRIUMPH OF NATIONAL COMMUNISM -- CHAPTER 5 POLISH RIGHT-WING POPULISM -- CHAPTER 6 CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS? -- CHAPTER 7 FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE AGE OF KACZYŃSKI -- PART II PiS’s Politics of History -- CHAPTER 8 THE NEW ROMANTICS -- CHAPTER 9 THE HISTORY MEN -- CHAPTER 10 POLAND’S CULTURE OF COMMEMORATION -- CHAPTER 11 POLAND’S THEATER OF DEATH -- PART III PiS’s Politics of Normality -- CHAPTER 12 THE QUEST FOR THE “NORMAL” FAMILY -- CHAPTER 13 LGBTQ AND POLISH PATRIARCHY -- CHAPTER 14 AN IDENTITY RESET -- CONCLUSION -- Part IV Interviews -- HISTORY AS WE MAY WISH IT TO BE -- 966 AND ALL THAT -- THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME -- HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF -- UNDERSTAND THE WAR, UNDERSTAND POLAND -- DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX I: TIMELINE -- APPENDIX II: GLOSSARY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Summary: This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party of Jarosław Kaczynski, returned to power, and the why and how of its policies while in power. They help to make sense of how “history” plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The descriptions of PiS in Western media tend to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was simply successful in understanding its electorate, and just helped Poland to revert to its normal state. This new Normal seems quite similar to the old one: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist. The book looks at the current struggle between one ‘Poland’ and another; between a Western-looking Poland and an inward-looking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, and working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an ‘Eastern’ problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland’s illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction: Illiberal, Aliberal, Anti-liberal? -- PART I Essays on PiS -- CHAPTER 1 NEVER MIND THE BOLEKS! -- CHAPTER 2 PIS: THE END OF THE BEGINNING -- CHAPTER 3 AUTHORITARIAN DRIVE IN POLAND -- CHAPTER 4 THE TRIUMPH OF NATIONAL COMMUNISM -- CHAPTER 5 POLISH RIGHT-WING POPULISM -- CHAPTER 6 CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS? -- CHAPTER 7 FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE AGE OF KACZYŃSKI -- PART II PiS’s Politics of History -- CHAPTER 8 THE NEW ROMANTICS -- CHAPTER 9 THE HISTORY MEN -- CHAPTER 10 POLAND’S CULTURE OF COMMEMORATION -- CHAPTER 11 POLAND’S THEATER OF DEATH -- PART III PiS’s Politics of Normality -- CHAPTER 12 THE QUEST FOR THE “NORMAL” FAMILY -- CHAPTER 13 LGBTQ AND POLISH PATRIARCHY -- CHAPTER 14 AN IDENTITY RESET -- CONCLUSION -- Part IV Interviews -- HISTORY AS WE MAY WISH IT TO BE -- 966 AND ALL THAT -- THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME -- HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF -- UNDERSTAND THE WAR, UNDERSTAND POLAND -- DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH -- APPENDICES -- APPENDIX I: TIMELINE -- APPENDIX II: GLOSSARY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

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This volume of essays and interviews by Polish, British, and American academics and journalists provides an overview of current Polish politics for both informed and non-specialist readers. The essays consider why and how PiS, Law and Justice, the party of Jarosław Kaczynski, returned to power, and the why and how of its policies while in power. They help to make sense of how “history” plays a key role in Polish public life and politics. The descriptions of PiS in Western media tend to rework old stereotypes about Eastern Europe that had lain dormant for some time. The book addresses the underlying question whether PiS was simply successful in understanding its electorate, and just helped Poland to revert to its normal state. This new Normal seems quite similar to the old one: insular, conservative, xenophobic, and statist. The book looks at the current struggle between one ‘Poland’ and another; between a Western-looking Poland and an inward-looking Poland, the former more interested in opening to the world, competing in open markets, and working within the EU, and the latter more concerned with holding onto tradition. The question of illiberalism has gone from an ‘Eastern’ problem (Russia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.) to a global one (Brexit and the U.S. elections). This makes the very specific analysis of Poland’s illiberalism applicable on a broader scale.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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