Deepening democratisation? Exploring the declared motives for “late” lustration in Poland

Szczerbiak, Aleks

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“…secret informants from within the dissident groups; Horne 2017) as well as the presence of former communist apparatchiks in the postcommunist public sphere after 1989 (Szczerbiak 2018(Szczerbiak , 2017Stan 2013 ;Nalepa 2010 ). However, further issues were of interest as well, including the access to communist secret files (with information on who were the confidential informers and whom they were spying on), reconciliation between victims and victimizers, and the historical assessment of communism in general ( Szczerbiak 2016 ;Stan 2017 ;Williams, Fowler, and Szczerbiak 2005 ;Stan 2009 ). The concept of 'lustration' stems probably from the ancient Roman lustratio purification ritual , but it has been applied in the CEE discourse mainly to the vetting of public officeholders regarding their links to communist security services.…”

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European Memory in Populism

2019

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European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and populism in contemporary Europe. Focusing on circulating ideas of memory, especially European memory, in contemporary populist discourses, the book also analyzes populist ideas in sites and practices of remembrance that usually tend to go unnoticed. More broadly, the theoretical heart of the book reflects upon the similarities, differences, and slippages between memory, populism, nationalism, and cultural racism and the ways in which social memory contributes to give substance to various ideas of what constitutes the 'people' in populist discourse and beyond.Bringing together a group of political scientists, anthropologists, and cultural and memory studies scholars, the book illuminates the relationship between memory and populism from different angles and in different contexts. The contributors to the volume discuss dominant notions of European heritage that circulate in the public sphere and in political discourse, and consider how the politics of fear relates to such notions of European heritage and identity across and beyond Europe and the European Union. Ultimately, this volume will shed light on how notions of a shared European heritage and memory can be used not only to include and connect Europeans, but also to exclude some of them.Investigating the ways in which nationalist populist forces mobilize the idea of a shared, homogeneous European civilization, European Memory in Populism will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of European studies, heritage and memory studies, migration studies, anthropology, political science, and sociology.Chapters 1, 4, 6, and 10 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Collaboration and Its Political Functions

DIGESER

2021

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What functions does “collaboration” play in our moral and political practices and how did it come to play those roles? We use the term “collaboration” to identify a valued partnership, but it also names a morally compromised association and functions as a reason for blaming and punishing complicitous behavior. However, it has also played nefarious political roles: shoring up patriarchy, legitimizing ethnic cleansing, and bolstering a myth of national unity. “Collaboration” plays various roles because it is both ambiguous and vague. It is ambiguous in that there are multiple conceptions of collaboration, and it is vague because it contains borderline cases that are difficult, even impossible, to resolve. An exploration of “collaboration” combined with the history of its coming of age shows why its study is so vexing and how it functions in unexpected and disturbing ways.

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Aleks Szczerbiak. 2018. Politicising The Communist Past: The Politics Of Truth Revelation In Post-Communist Poland. London: Routledge, 206 Pp. Hardback Ł92.00. Isbn: 9781138824737.

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2018

Polish Political Science Review

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Deepening democratisation? Exploring the declared motives for “late” lustration in Poland

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

European Memory in Populism

European Memory in Populism

Collaboration and Its Political Functions

Aleks Szczerbiak. 2018. Politicising The Communist Past: The Politics Of Truth Revelation In Post-Communist Poland. London: Routledge, 206 Pp. Hardback Ł92.00. Isbn: 9781138824737.

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