Weaponizing the Past - Collective Memory Jews, Poles, Communists in Twenty First Century

In Poland, contemporary political actors have constructed a narrative of Polish history since 1989 in which Polish and Jewish involvement with communism has created a national concept of "we." Weaponizing the Past explores the resulting implications of national belonging through a lens of collective memory. Taking a constructivist approach to electoral politics and nation making in Poland's past, this volume's dual line of inquiry articulates why and how elites politicize the past, what effect this politicization produces, and contextualizes this politicization to illustrate contemporary production of anti-Semitism.

About the author

Kate Korycki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University in Canada. She has published on Polish memory of communism and the Holocaust, on Indigeneity in Canada, sexual identity in Iran, and class and sexuality politics in France.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Korycki
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781805390503
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-050-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Worlds of Memory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History: theory & methods, Poland, Nationalism, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, History: theory and methods, Memory Studies; History: 20th Century to Present