Kolonizowanie historii. Postkolonializm i postsocjalizm jako komunały

Abstract

Colonising of History. Postcolonialism and Postsocialism as Commonplaces Drawing on Eric R. Wolf famous appeal that anthropology bears a special responsibility to examine the commonplaces of human thought and the fi ghting words of human speech (Wolf 1994), in this essay I consider some aspects of postcolonialism and postsocialism specifi c understanding in a public culture-especially in Poland and, to lesser extent, other formerly dependent nationstates: Fiji and Jamaica. Public culture itself is, in a sense, a common place where numerous terms and arguments of academic origins are losing their previous meaning and acquire new senses. Th ey are oft en objects of abuse and semantic manipulations in order to impose a specifi c interpretations of the past-which is the colonizing of the history-that are instrumental to justify domination of the particular socio-political policies.