Society and Culture in Postcommunist Poland 05-AMU-PIE-SCP

Upon completion of the course, the student will:
Know about basic transformation of social life during the period of post-communist Poland
Understand different discourses about society in Poland
Is capable of comparing individual and group experiences across places, genders and generations
Is capable of discussing selected aspects of post-communist realities in Poland at micro and macro levels
Understand research agenda and scholarly literature concerning society and culture in post-communist Poland
Is aware of the continuities and ruptures in society and culture in post-communist Poland.

P – final presentation or final paper
F –formative: observing questions and discussion during the class

Galbraith, Marysia. 2011. “‘Poland Has Always Been in Europe’: The EU as an Instrument for Personal and National Advancement.” Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 20 (2): 21-42.
Goździak, Elżbieta. 2016. Biała emigracja: variegated mobility of Polish care workers. Social Identities 22 (1): 26-43.
Halawa, Mateusz. 2015. "In New Warsaw." Mortgage credit and the unfolding of space and time. Cultural Studies 29 (5-6): 707-732.
Hall, Dorota. 2015. Antagonism in the Making: Religion and Homosexuality in Post-Communist Poland. In: Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays, and Governments, ed. S. Sremac and R. R. Ganzevoort. Leiden: Brill, 74-92.
Kuźma, Inga. 2016: The sense and the practices of living in a homeless shelter. “Studi di Nuevo Meridionalismo”, R. II, nr 3, 223-235, http://www.nuovomeridionalismo.it/
Main, Izabella. 2014. Commemorations and memories of Poznań June 1956. In Gebrochene Kontinuitäten. Transnationalitäten in den Erinnerungskulturen Ostmitteleuropas im 20. Jahrhundert, ed. A.Gąsior, A.Halemba, S.Troebst, Visuelle Geschichtskultur z. 13, Köln-Weimar-Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 277-304.
Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria. 2006. New Threads on an Old Loom: National Memory and Social Identity in Postwar and Post-Communist Poland. In The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, ed. Richard Ned Lebow, Wulf Kansteiner, Claudio Fogu. Durham: Duke University Press, 177-209.
Peperkamp, Esther. 2006. ‘There can be no vacation from God’: Children's retreats, leisure and social change in Poland. Religion, State and Society 34 (3): 271-286.
Pine, Frances. 2014. Migration as Hope: Space, Time, and Imagining the Future. Current Anthropology 55 (S9): S95-S104.
Radkowska-Walkowicz, Magdalena. 2017. How the Political Becomes Private: In Vitro Fertilization and the Catholic Church in Poland. Journal of Religion and Health. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10943-017-0480-3.pdf
Rakowski, Tomasz. 2016. Interior Spectacles. The Art of the Informal among Bootleg Miners in Wałbrzych, Poland. In Economies of Favour after Socialism: A Comparative Perspective, ed. N. Makovicky and D. Henig. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 161-180.
Stacul, Jaro. 2014. The Production of 'Local Culture' in Post-socialist Poland. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 23 (1): 21-39.
Witeska-Młynarczyk, Anna. 2016. Empowering Files: Secret Police Records and Life Narratives of Former Political Prisoners of the Communist Era in Poland. In: Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-socialist Europe, ed. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Gelinada Grinchenko. Toronto University Press, 41-58.

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