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Jean Potocki, conseiller privé. Les lettres inconnues de Jean Potocki à Andrej Jakovlevitch Budberg de la fin de l’année 1806 au début de l’année 1807
No full textFantômes, vampires, bandits et Tsiganes : le jeu des identités et des cultures (du savoir) dans le Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
No full textReview: "Poland Daily: Economy, Work, Consumption and Social Class in Polish Cinema" / Ewa Mazierska. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-78533-536-5
No full textEwa Mazierska's book brings together film, identity, economy and class in the entirety of Polish cinema. The role of Polish film in constructing an externally recognised patriotic national identity, often against internal reflection and social reform, is clearly emphasised: "The most critically acclaimed Polish films show Poles fighting against external enemies, rather than dealing with everyday problems and enjoying the small pleasures in life" (p. 3). The book, then, shows how Polish cinema has carried macro-ideologies through its history and marginalised the micro-everyday: indeed, following Ben Highmore, downplaying the everyday risks by neglecting the dominated for the sake of listening to the dominating elites. Mazierska, who has published extensively on European cinema, as well as monographs on Roman Polański and Jerzy Skolimowski, writes of her work that "this project has much to do with listening to voices from below, or finding out why they are silenced or represented in one way rather than another" (p. 4)
Review: "Populist Political Communication in Europe" / Toril Aalberg, Frank Esser, Carsten Reinemann, Jesper Stromback, Claes De Vreese (ed.). New York: Routledge, 2017. ISBN: 9781138614826
No full textThe volume Populist Political Communication in Europe, edited by a group of prominent scholars representing various disciplines, including sociology, political science, media and communication studies, consisting of Toril Aalberg, Frank Esser, Carsten Reinemann, Jesper Stromback, and Claes H. de Vreese, is the first one in the newly established series Routledge Research in Communication Studies. It comes as no surprise that the first position in this series is dedicated to populism, which has recently become the dominating force in European politics. This collection covers twenty-four countries in case studies, analysing new developments in and contributing to the knowledge about three inter-related areas within populist political communication: populist actors as communicators, the media and populism, and citizens and populism
Rezension: "Polnischer Protest. Zur pragmatistischen Fundierung von Theorien sozialen Wandels" / Hella Dietz. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2015. ISBN: EAN 9783593504643
No full textEs wäre keine Überraschung gewesen, wenn die polnischen Oppositionsbewegungen der 1970er und 1980er Jahre vierzig Jahre nach ihrer Entstehung heute ausschließlich von der Historikerzunft beforscht würden. Glücklicherweise gibt es aber immer noch SozialwissenschaftlerInnen, die bereit sind, das Jahr 1989 als Zäsur zu hinterfragen und sich mit den vorangegangenen Jahrzehnten zu beschäftigen. Mit Polnischer Protest: Zur pragmatischen Fundierung von Theorien sozialen Wandels hat die Soziologin Hella Dietz eine Studie vorgelegt, die sowohl soziologisch argumentiert als auch tief in die Ereignisse und das Denken dieser lang vergangenen Tage eintaucht. Dietz zufolge verdecken Narrative, die das Jahr 1989 als fundamentalen Bruch verstehen, die vielen Gemeinsamkeiten der vorangegangenen und nachfolgenden Jahre. Aufgrund dieser Gemeinsamkeiten sei eine Analyse der Entstehungsgeschichte polnischer Protestbewegungen der 1970er und 1980er Jahre immer noch interessant und relevant für die Sozialwissenschaften (S. 297)
Review: "Lives of the Orange Men. A Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement" / Major Waldemar Frydrych. Chicho, CA: Minor Compositions, 2013. ISBN: 978-1570272691
No full text"Poland in this time," readers are told early in Waldemar Fydrych's Lives of the Orange Men, "was a strange and wonderful land. Some people thought it was [a] real trip, but others found it psychotic. For this reason the unfamiliar reader might find themselves disoriented, as if tumbling down a rabbit hole. So for the purposes of edification and understanding, the reader will encounter a number of clear and concise explanatory notes to provide access to this world where the familiar becomes strange" (p. 9). Neither entirely clear nor concise, Fydrych's biographical history of the Orange Alternative movement he helped found is nevertheless an illuminating and pleasurable rabbit hole.
Organized in the 1980s, when Poland was gripped by the struggle between the Communist authorities and newly formed Solidary movement, the Orange Alternative offered a playful and radically different point of view – staging irreverent "happenings" and decorating streets with graffiti dwarves. This book records the movement's humor and humanity and is a valuable source for those interested in Polish history and culture, as well as broader questions of political performance and art in public space. Lives of the Orange Men offers a personal glimpse into a pivotal era in Poland, but does so in a way that makes strange the familiar history – and thus revives the spirit of the movement it chronicles
Manufacturing Culture. Cultural Agents from Turkey Arriving in Berlin
No full textIn the last 15 years a remarkable number of people working in the cultural field moved from Turkey to Berlin. Their motivations are various, but what can be analyzed is how those cul-tural agents arrive in Berlin. Visual artists are put in the focus of this research. It is their pre-carious situation that exposes struggles of identity and connected to this institutional failure. Considering political tensions, how can migration theories detangle the variables that make a living together possible? Based on empirical material that was collected in conversations with Turkish cultural agents in Germany and German cultural agents who live in Turkey the attempt was made to identify the power relations between the artist from another country and cultural institutions in Berlin
Paysage slave et espace impérial : la slavophilie comme paradigme esthétique dans les récits de voyage de Jean Potocki
No full textReview: "Polen − mein Weg zur Freiheit. Wie Polen die DDR-Bürgerrechtler inspirierte − 13 Gespräche" / Robert Żurek. Osnabrück: fibre, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-944870-41-0
No full textIn many Western European countries the memory of the end of communism in Central and Eastern Europe and of the annus mirabilis 1989 is dominated by the fall of the Berlin Wall – the most visible and media-appealing representation of the sweeping events across a range of countries. Frustration in Poland about how the small, conformist neighbour has managed to steal the limelight has found a range of expressions – not least through massive posters in Berlin on commemorative dates stating: «it began in Poland».
Away from the larger public perception in Western Europe, there is an important group of people that knows all too well where the East-German 1989 events began; and more specifically, where they began for them. Robert Żurek combines their viewpoints – those of an important group of East German oppositionists and independent intellectuals – in a volume of interviews under the title Polen – Mein Weg zur Freiheit
Review: "Literatura niewyczerpana. W kręgu mniej znanych twórców polskiej literatury lat 1863–1914" / Krzysztof Fiołek (ed.). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Universitas, 2014. ISBN: 97883-242-2615-3
No full textThis collection of over fifty essays is devoted, as the title suggests, to a number of lesser known authors of Polish literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Instead of limiting the subject of the volume to well-known themes of late romanticism, positivism and Young Poland (as Polish modernism was widely known), one of the main aims of the book is to present authors and works that did not fit into these pre-defined terms. The writers presented in Literatura niewyczerpana are people who created outside the mainstream, or who crossed the boundaries of literary epochs. Significantly, the collection is not only about those who were forgotten and lesser known literary figures, but also about recognised authors and their less popular writings. By avoiding any clear-cut categories when it comes to the periodization of the history of Polish literature, the book brings together essays which could be interesting for readers from beyond the discipline of literary studies