General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | Society and Culture in Postcommunist Poland |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | prof. UAM dr hab. Izabella Dorota Main |
| Lecturer's email | imain@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | prof |
| Faculty | Faculty of Anthropology and Cultural Studies |
| Semester | 2023/2024 (winter) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 5 |
| USOS code | 20-AMU-PIE-SZ-SCP |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
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Give knowledge about social and cultural aspects of living in post-communist Poland |
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Develop ability to critically asses different discourses about society in Poland |
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Develop skills to compare individual and group experiences across places, genders and generations |
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Provide a base to study and discuss selected aspects of post-communist realities in Poland at micro and macro levels |
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Give understanding of research agenda and scholarly literature concerning society and culture in post-communist Poland |
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
reading, writing and speaking skills in English
Syllabus
Memory and remembrance in post-communist Poland
Continuity and rupture in politics and society
Local memories and spaces of commemoration
New stratifications: poverty
Local economies of transformation
Religious identities and activities
Values and conflicts: religion, politics and health
Sexual minorities
Discourses and experiences of migration
Summary: continuities and rupture in post-communist Poland
Reading list
Bashko, Aliaksei. "Entrepreneurship and ethnic economy employment among Chinese and Vietnamese residents of Warsaw." International Migration online 1 June 2021
Galbraith, Marysia. 2000. "On the Road to Częstochowa: Rhetoric and Experience on a Polish Pilgrimage." Anthropological Quarterly 73 (2): 61-73.
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.
Kramer, Anne-Marie. 2007. ‘The Abortion Debate in Poland: Opinion Polls, Ideological Politics, Citizenship and the Erasure of Gender as a Category of Analysis’. In Living Gender after Communism, ed J. E. Johnson and J. C. Robinson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 63-79
Kuźma, Inga. 2016: “The sense and the practices of living in a homeless shelter.” Studi di Nuevo Meridionalismo, R. II, nr 3, s. 223-235.
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
Stacul, Jaro. 2014. "The Production of 'Local Culture' in Post-socialist Poland." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 23 (1): 21-39.
Strzałkowski Michał. 2018. Fortress Europe lives on in Poland, EURACTIV.pl, translated by Alexandra Brzozowski, May 29, 2018 https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/fortress-europe-lives-on-in-poland/
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. N. Khanenko-Friesen, G.Grinchenko, Toronto University Press.