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Symbolic politics of public time and collective memory. The Polish case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2002

ELZBIETA HALAS
ELZBIETA HALAS
Affiliation:
Institute of Sociology, Catholic University of Lublin, Aleje Raclawickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland. E-mail: halas@kul.lublin.pl. http://www.kul.lublin.pl/halas/
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Abstract

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Symbolic construction of the state identity is analysed, along with the symbolic politics of the state toward the past. The great systemic change is conceived as a symbolic transformation where the growth of semiotic behaviour is clearly noticeable. The analysis deals with the changes in the public holidays calendar in Poland: the communist symbolic strategies, symbolic politics of the Solidarity movement and the anti-politics of symbolization in the third Republic of Poland. It discusses problems of the symbolic control of historicity.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 2002 , pp. 115 - 129
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© Academia Europaea 2001