Post-socialist hybrids

Marciniak, Katarzyna

doi:10.1177/1367549409102424

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“…This strongly resonates with the "inferiority-superiority complex" I mentioned earlier in this article (Kurczewska 2003;Marciniak 2009) and implies that the culture-specific understanding of such concepts as the nation or national identity (e.g. Polishness, Britishness) is brought to migrant encounters with difference and diverse societies.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…The discursive practices of re-inscribing truly colonial relations between the West and the East of Europe, and situating Poland in an obscure position in-between, resulted in what some scholars call "inferiority-superiority complex" (Kurczewska 2003;Zarycki 2004). On the one hand, the Polish society seems to feel insufficiently modern in comparison to the iconic West, and on the other hand, it appears to express high levels of national pride and a sense of exceptionality (Marciniak 2009). …”

Section: (Re)shaping Perceptions Of Home Society Post-migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Verdery 1996;Kuus 2004;Stenning 2005;Chari & Verdery 2009;Marciniak 2009;Owczarzak 2009;Burrell 2011;Horolets & Kozłowska 2012;Mayblin et al 2014). By exploring the Polish migrant narratives of childhood in late socialist Poland, Burrell (2011: 143) has, for example, looked into "why west was often considered best".…”

Section: (Re)shaping Perceptions Of Home Society Post-migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond ‘us’ and ‘them’: migrant encounters with difference and reimagining the national

Gawlewicz¹

2015

Fennia

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(2015). Beyond 'us' and 'them': Migrant encounters with difference and reimagining the national, Fennia 193: 2, 198-211. ISSN 1798-5617. In an era of accelerated international mobility, individuals have increased opportunities to confront values, practices and discourses linked to their national belonging with the lifestyles, cultural scripts and social norms of receiving societies. This paper discusses how migrants, who move between a relatively homogeneous society (Poland) and a superdiverse one (the UK), negotiate "the national" and "the foreign" in orientalist binary oppositions. It explores how Polish migrants' lived experience of difference in the UK context impacts on the construction of Poland. As such, it focuses on essentialist discourses of 'inferiority' and 'superiority' (of the UK to Poland and vice versa) that are mobilised while migrants negotiate what they believe are British values (i.e. tolerance and diversity) and Polish values (i.e. family). The article draws upon multiple interviews and audio-diaries from a wider study that explores Polish migrants' encounters with difference and the circulation of values and attitudes between Poland and the UK.

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Beyond ‘us’ and ‘them’: migrant encounters with difference and reimagining the national

Gawlewicz¹

2015

Fennia

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“…Over the past several years, a new literature has developed that has more critically scrutinized the meaning of post‐socialism and positioned it spatially, temporally and thematically within a more complex territory than the spatio‐temporal container form of analysis (Grubbauer, ; Wiest, ; Hirt, ). First, against the temporal demarcations of post‐socialism as post‐1989/1991, this literature has tended towards notions of hybridity (Burawoy and Verdery, ; Stenning and Hörschelmann, ; Marciniak, ). Crucial elements of one era might be continuities from a previous order (Sassen, ).…”

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Strategies for Comparative Urbanism: Post‐socialism as a De‐territorialized Concept

Tuvikene

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

104

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The aim of this article is to critically assess the study of post-socialist cities with respect to comparative urbanism. Even though comparative urbanism has challenged the division of the world into largely incommensurable regional containers, where some regions are sources of theory while others remain in the periphery of thinking, post-socialist cities have remained doubly excluded: neither centre nor periphery, neither mainstream nor part of the critique. This article introduces three ways in which post-socialism has and could be perceived: as a container, as a condition and as a de-territorialized concept. It is argued here that seeing post-socialism as a de-territorialized concept that would apply to particular aspects of cities and societies rather than territorialized units in general would allow cities regularly seen as post-socialist to be incorporated into global urban theorizing, while distinctive local histories and experiences still remain analytically present. The arti cle cautions researchers against area-based imaginations of urban theorization, instead arguing in favour of an approach that sees cities first and foremost as ordinary while some aspects could be claimed to be post-socialist. Tallinn is used here as a site from which to draw examples for this mainly literature-based conceptual analysis.

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“…Relying on individual interviews conducted in a northern English city, Leeds, Gawlewicz explores the multifarious ways in which Polish migrants talk of/about their lived experience of difference in terms of ethnicity, religion, class, age, gender, sexuality and disability. The picture which emerges is one which she labels, after Kurczewska (2003) and Marciniak (2009), the "inferiority-superiority" complex. In other words, when it comes to comparing how difference is lived in Britain and in Poland, the latter is constructed as inferior.…”

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