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Współczesna Serbia i Chorwacja wobec własnej historii
Tomasz Stryjek zrealizował w swej książce podstawowy cel, który sobie postawił, jasno prezentując autorską analizę polityk pamięci w Chorwacji i Serbii, umieszczając je w politycznym i społecznym kontekście ich historycznego rozwoju w ostatnich dziesięcioleciach. Uznanie budzi ogrom wiedzy na temat polityk i procesów zachodzących w społeczeństwach serbskim i chorwackim na płaszczyźnie pamięci. Oceny autora są wyważone i pobudzające do dalszych dyskusji i rozważań, pokazują, jak ważnym elementem procesu transformacji były zmiany w polityce historycznej w analizowanych państwach. Jestem przekonana, że książka da polskim czytelnikom wgląd w złożone procesy zac...
Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes
The first English-language biography of Dmytro Dontsov, the “spiritual father” of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this book contextualizes Dontsov’s works, activities, and identity formation diachronically, reconstructing the cultural, political, urban, and intellectual milieus within which he developed and disseminated his worldview.
The Burden of the Past
Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine’s culture: “A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory.” —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus University In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress and control the past in order to form new national identities supportive of their own agendas. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, memory in Ukraine was released, creating alternate visions of the past, new national heroes, and new vi...
Beyond Imagined Uniqueness
Beyond Imagined Uniqueness: Nationalisms in Comparative Perspectives is a collection of essays from a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives that explore the contentious issue of nationalism in historical and contemporary settings. They adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of nationalism and its permutations and modes of expression. The unspoken context of these essays is the trends subsumed under the processes of globalization. Though the world may be becoming more integrated economically, these essays suggest social, cultural, and political forces, historically rooted, keep the nation and national identity alive and well. The comparative perspectives offered by the...
Dyskurs historyczny w mediach masowych
Podstawowym celem badawczym tej książki jest opis i analiza porównawcza sposobów funkcjonowania w sferze medialnej Polski i Ukrainy obrazów przeszłości i dyskursu historycznego odwołującego się do elementów historii narodowej XX w. W zawartych w niej pogłębionych studiach i analizach staramy się – w różny sposób i za pomocą odmiennych metod – odpowiedzieć na trzy pytania: Jakie są źródła wiedzy o przeszłości w Polsce i w Ukrainie i na ile media masowe są w stanie wytwarzać „wspólnotowy” obraz przeszłości? Kto i co mówi o przeszłości historycznej w mediach masowych? Jakie są formy i dominujące style, w jakich przeszłość historyczna jest przytaczan...
Polski mit etnopolityczny i Kaukaz
Autor prezentuje różne stanowiska i opinie dotyczące poszczególnych sfer oraz relacji Polaków i Polski z Kaukazem. Rozprawia się merytorycznie z pokutującymi mitami i stereotypami. Wykazuje, że polskie postrzeganie Kaukazu w XIX–XXI wieku opiera się na etosie walki przeciw Rosji jako wspólnemu wrogowi oraz na niepogłębionych badaniach kaukazoznawczych. Narodowe czy separatystyczne ruchy w tej części Kaukazu, która wchodzi w skład Federacji Rosyjskiej, stanowią poważny materiał do negatywnego przedstawiania historycznego wroga, z którym polskiemu posłannictwu dziejowemu przychodzi się nieustannie mierzyć. Problem ten opisany został na wielu płaszczyznach. Autor wykonał przy tym ogromną pracę, w której dał dowody nierzetelności historyków, politologów i różnych popularyzatorów wiedzy.
The Convolutions of Historical Politics
Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia as case studies), but also includes articles on Germany, Japan and Turkey, which provide a much needed comparative dimension. The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism. The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist. The studies look at actors (from political parties to individual historians), institutions (museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions), methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon.
Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe
This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this topic from a transnational perspective, revealing the ways in which modern Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian nationalities were formed and refashioned through the challenges they presented to one another, both as neighboring communities and as minorities within a given community. Further, all three nations defined themselves as a result of their interactions with the Russian and Austrian empires. Fueled by the Romantic search for national roots, they developed a number of separate yet often overlapping and inclusive senses of national identity, thereby producing myriad versions of Russianness, Polishness, and Ukrainianness.
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe
A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offering the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Covering twenty national cultures and languages, the ensuing work goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narrative and offers a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of discourses. Devising a regional perspective, the authors avoid projecting the Western European analytical and conceptual schemes on the whole continent, and develop instead new concepts, patterns of periodization and interpretative models. At t...
Memory and Identity
This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past. Drawing on case studies in historical, political, literary and linguistic studies, it explores the narratives that produce imagined communities and identities and the places in which cultural identities are constructed through memory, asking how far these identities and memories disinherit or exclude otherness, and how far ghosts disturb orderly narratives, inviting multiple readings of the past. Thematically organized to consider the persistence of ghosts within present memory and identity, the creation of new identities through intertwining narratives of the past, and the reclamation of identities in postcolonial contexts, Memory and Identity: Ghosts of the past in the English-speaking world offers a multi-disciplinary examination of the concept of haunting. Memory and Identity will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and history with interests in memory and identity.
