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This book uses Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson's The Established and The Outsiders to map selected established-outsiders figurations in Poland after 1989. Looking at gender and sexual orientation, nationalism and patriotism, race and class, antifeminism and homophobia, elitist and populist imaginaries, religious and political ideals and ideologies, hate speech, and the crisis of the rule of law, this book tracks how inequalities are transformed into figurations of the have and the have-nots by way of spatial, symbolic and institutional exclusion. This edited collection is rooted in a socio-historical understanding of the trajectory of Polish society before and since the fall of Communism over thirty years ago, and a critical assessment of the dramatic turn that Polish society has taken since the beginning of the democratic backsliding in 2015.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Rainbow Patriotism: LBGTIQ Community's Strategies in Poland (2015-2021).- Chapter 3. Anti-Gender Preaching on IKEA Intranet: The Besieged Catholic Church (2019-2021).- Chapter 4. Abortion Law and the Feminist Mobilization: The Worst Minority (2020-2021).- Chapter 5. Established-Outsider Relations in the Education System: Images of "Us" in School Newspapers (1999-2021).- Chapter 6. Polish Peasant in Poland: Peasants in the Narratives of Polish Nation-Building (2000-2021).- Chapter 7. The Pariah Elite: The Reform of the Judiciary (2017-2022).- Chapter 8. Brand New Outsiders: Economic Migrants and War Refugees (2015-2022).- Chapter 9. Where Does the Figuration End? Polish Established-Outsider Relations in Regional and Global Contexts.- Chapter 10. Conclusion
