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Brytyjskie studia kulturowe a polski strach przed polityką
British Cultural Studies and Polish Politicophobia

Author(s): Arkadiusz Nyzio
Subject(s): Anthropology, Gender Studies, Civil Society, Sociology, Politics and society, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social Theory, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; culture; politics; cultural studies; Poland; III RP

Summary/Abstract: Despite considerable change over recent years, British cultural studies and the work of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, the very cradle of this discipline, remain on the peripheries of Polish cultural studies. While the causes of this remain under debate, the author deduces that one of them is of utmost importance: the aversion to politics and politicians, observable in the Polish public discourse since 1989, which has amounted to a politicophobia. This phenomenon makes it difficult to accept “an ‘engaged’ set of disciplines”, as Stuart Hall put it. The author argues that overcoming this barrier is one of the key pieces of the development of cultural studies in Poland.

  • Issue Year: 39/2014
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 54-67
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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