PRZEGIĘCIE. SŁABA TEORIA KAMPU
Camping It Up. A Weak Theory of Camp

Author(s): Tomasz Basiuk
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: camp; paranoid reading; reparative reading; weak theory
Summary/Abstract: I argue for the need to reintroduce the category “camp” into queer studies approaches to both present-day and state-socialist Poland, including in class-focused critique. Calling on Esther Newton’s discussion of camp practices and on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s distinction between paranoid and reparative readings of camp, I provide examples drawn from oral history and epistolary sources, as well as from work by two Polish queer studies scholars who decide to leave camp out of their analyses despite that category’s apparent relevance and usefulness.

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