Telling the Great Change

The Process of the Systemic Transformation in Poland in Biographical Perspective

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The book is pioneering in Poland. but also in Central Europe. lt shows the mechanisms of adaptation to the systemie transformation in Poland after 1989, based on the analysis of narratives of people barn in 1960, 1970 and 1980 who are representatives of diverse social milieus and have different professional and life experiences. The reader will find here a model application of the biographical research methodology developed by Fritz Schütze for a series of case studies. which makes this publication the most extensive work using the indicated method for research on transformation. The authors of the individual chapters, emphasizing the individual agency of the subjects, avoid the pitfalls of neoliberal discourse shifting responsibility for their fates onto individuals. Apart from the analysis of autonomous ways of agency, they show various potentials of losing control over one’s life, biographical trajectories, as well as biographical resources, mainly of a family nature, which serve to deal mare effectively with the consequences of systemic transformation.


Rok wydania2020
Liczba stron652
KategoriaPublikacje darmowe
WydawcaWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
ISBN-13978-83-8142-456-1
Numer wydania1
Język publikacjiangielski
Informacja o sprzedawcyePWN sp. z o.o.

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  Foreword    9
  
  Part 1. Introduction: “Telling the Great Change…” (Jacek Burski, Joanna Wygnańska)    13
  
  Chapter I. Methodological note (Kaja Kaźmierska)    33
  Chapter II. Winners and losers of the process of transformation as an etic category versus an emic biographical perspective (Kaja Kaźmierska)    49
  Chapter III. Narrative agency and structural chaos. A biographical-narrative case study (Piotr Filipkowski)    79
  
  Part 2. From PPR to systemic transformation (Joanna Wygnańska)    103
  
  Chapter IV. The experience of systemic transformation in contemporary biographical narratives of older Poles (Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek)    115
  Chapter V. Social innovators in coping with social problems – PPR, systemic transformation, and new Poland (Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas)    143
  Chapter VI. Life of things from the perspective of the Polish systemic transformation (Renata Dopierała)    171
  Chapter VII. Paradoxes of ideological privileges – a case study of a female textile worker from Łódź (Kaja Kaźmierska)    195
  Chapter VIII. The process of acquiring and developing a critical attitude towards the socialist regime in Poland (Katarzyna Waniek)    229
  Chapter IX. A new logic of power, old biographical patterns of action. Case study of Weronika’s life history (Joanna Wygnańska)    251
  
  Part 3. Transforming opportunity structures: biographical chances, hopes, illusions, and dead-ends (Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas, Katarzyna Waniek)    281
  
  Chapter X. Biographical traps of the transformation process – cohort 1980. The potentials of disorder and suffering in the experiences of young Polish women entering social worlds of art, medicine, and academia (Katarzyna Waniek)    297
  Chapter XI. Transformation and the biographical experiences of healthcare workers (Jacek Burski)    349
  Chapter XII. “Twist of fate”: declining and rising lines of occupational career in the biographical experiences of two engineers (Jacek Burski, Katarzyna Waniek)    385
  
  Part 4. Biographical resources: family and social networks (Kaja Kaźmierska)    425
  
  Chapter XIII. A trap of systemic changes – Pola’s biographical drift (Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas, Małgorzata Potoczna)    443
  Chapter XIV. Narratives rooted in family milieu. Case studies of Agnieszka and Paweł focused on the family thread as the biographical resource and main story-line (Joanna Wygnańska)    475
  Chapter XV. A biographical experience of the yard as a symbolic biographical resource (Jacek Burski, Joanna Wygnańska)    523
  Chapter XVI. (Re)creating bonds in the local environment – a contrastive comparison of two life strategies (Kaja Kaźmierska)    563
  
  Conclusions – Understanding transformation as a social change stretched in time and space (Kaja Kaźmierska, Katarzyna Waniek)    589
  
  References    601
  Appendix    633
  Transcription Notation    633
  List of narrators     635
  Notes about the Authors    641
  Index    645
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