Discrimination for the Sake of the Nation: The Discourse of the League of Polish Families against «Others» 2001-2007 (Polish Studies in Culture, Nations and Politics) - Hardcover

Shibata, Yasuko

 
9783631641323: Discrimination for the Sake of the Nation: The Discourse of the League of Polish Families against «Others» 2001-2007 (Polish Studies in Culture, Nations and Politics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 363164132X ISBN 13: 9783631641323
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013

Synopsis

This book examines the intertwined relationship between contemporary Polish politics and national culture by focusing on the phenomenon of discrimination. The object of the analysis is the language of the League of Polish Families, a populist party that recreated the climate of pre-war National Democracy in Poland from 2001 to 2007 by negatively labeling the nation’s Others. Through the political party’s discourse of discrimination, the book grasps a peculiar moment of Poland that faced uncertainty of identity upon its accession to the European Union. By adopting a method of critical discourse analysis, the author attests to the party’s political use of different layers of national traditions in denigrating Jews, sexual minorities and feminists while sanctifying the Polish nation.

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About the Author

Yasuko Shibata, PhD, is lecturer at Collegium Civitas and the Polish-Japanese Institute of Computer Technology in Warsaw. Her latest research project at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences concerns institutional discourse on Chopin’s music in Japan and Poland.

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Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
363164132X
ISBN 13 
9783631641323
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
309