Tomasz Zarycki

Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, developed a new ideology of their place in the world. Drawing on post-colonial theory and on identity discourses in the writings of local intelligentsia figures, the book shows how people in these countries no longer think of themselves as part of the "east", and how they have invented new, disparaging stereotypes of the countries to the east of them, such as Ukraine and Belarus, to which they see themselves as superior.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780415625890
• ISBN-10: 0415625890
• Artikelnr.: 37253773

Autorenporträt

Tomasz Zarycki is an Associate Professor and Director of the Robert Zajonc Institute of Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland

Inhaltsangabe

1. Central and Eastern Europe and the Idea of the East 2. Central and
Eastern Europe in a Center-Periphery Perspective 3. Dependence Doxa:
Western Hegemony and its Naturalization in Central and Eastern Europe 4.
Intelligentsia Doxa: A Hegemony of the Intelligentsia and its
Naturalization 5. Post-colonial Theory in a Central European Context 6. The
Kresy (Old Borderlands) Discourse and its Critics 7. The New Borderlands
Discourse 8. Constructing New Identities for Eastern Poland 9. Belarussian,
Lithuanian and Ukrainian Reactions to Polish Discourses on the East 10.
Conclusions: Critical Theory in a Central European Context