Geowładza. Zarys problematyki na podstawie dzienników Marii Dąbrowskiej, Leopolda Tyrmanda i Stefana Kisielewskiego
Geopower: An Outline of the Problem Based on the Diaries of Maria Dąbrowska, Leopold Tyrmand and Stefan Kisielewski

Summary/Abstract: The article compares the diaries of three writers – Maria Dąbrowska, Leopold Tyrmand andStefan Kisielewski. Exploring their views on the cityscape of postwar Warsaw Prachnioidentifies a triad of structuring factors: inhabitants, authorities or power [władza] andspace. Examining the special meanings of each of these categories, Prachnio focuses onthe authorities or power [władza]. He uses the term geopower [geowładza] that signifiesthe governing structures in which a skilful management of the territory is supposed toallow them to exert power over the people. Prachnio’s theoretical and methodologicalbackground is based on tools that emerged from the spatial turn and the writings ofMichel Foucault, which have not yet been brought to bear on spatial studies in theliterature.

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