Being and becoming European in Poland : European integration and self-identity / / Marysia H. Galbraith [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Galbraith Marysia H.
• Pubblicazione: London, UK ; New York, NY : , : Anthem Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 303.48/243804
• Soggetto topico: Polish people - Ethnic identity; National characteristics, Polish; Post-communism - Poland
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Dec 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Being and Becoming European in Poland; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; Figures; Tables; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: BEING AND BECOMING EUROPEAN IN POSTCOMMUNIST POLAND; Long-Term Fieldwork; Anthropological Studies of the European Union; Anthropological Studies of Nation and Ethnicity; Anthropological Studies of Self; A Person-Centered Approach to European Integration and Collective Identities; Chapter 2 "WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IN EUROPE": DEPLOYING THE PAST TO SHAPE THE PRESENT; Bartek: Historical Consciousness in the Twenty-First Century ; Deploying the Past to Shape the Present National Mythology: Polish Messianism and the Heroic Ideal; National Mythologies in Everyday Life; Corruption of a glorious past; The history that matters is personal; Past and future in Europe; The Smolensk Disaster; History of Katyn; Commemoration and controversy; A country divided? Competing explanations of the tragedy; Moving Forward; Aneta: Not the Christ of Nations Anymore; Chapter 3 "UNBELIEVABLE! POLES ARE HAPPY":LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE; Józef: Building a Future; Unbelievable! Poles Are Happy!; The 1990's: Living in the Present ; The Twenty-First Century: Looking toward the Future Education; Mortgages; Children; Retirement; "Even the Crisis Didn't Work Out"; Wiola: Everything on Schedule; Chapter 4 "WE'RE EUROPEAN BECAUSE WE'RE POLISH": LOCAL, NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN IDENTITIES; Wojtek: Pole, European and Euroskeptic; Imagining Territorial Scales of Social Organization; Attachment to Place: Quality and Intensity at Different Scales; Talking about region; Talking about nation; Talking about Europe; European Integration and Territorial Scales of Belonging; Do scales of belonging preclude each other? ; Which do you consider your priority? Which describes you best?; Being and Becoming European; Marek: I Can Live Anywhere; Chapter 5 "EU MEMBERSHIP GIVES POLAND A BETTER CHANCE": PERSPECTIVES ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION; Ewelina: Prospects for a Better Life in the European Union; Becoming European: Overview of the Integration Process; Association; Candidacy; Accession; Perspectives on the European Union; Economic opportunity vs. consumer market; Governance: Transnational order vs. external control; Implications for the European Union; Krzysiek: Let Someone Else Govern Us ; Chapter 6 "NOW WE CAN TRAVEL WITHOUT A PASSPORT": MOBILITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION Dorota: Opportunity and Loss in England; Mobility in the European Union; History of Polish Migration; "I Can Go Abroad with just My ID Card, and I Can Work Legally"; Eased restrictions on mobility; Social advancement and social demotion in an imagined world hierarchy; Global mobility and the choice to stay home; Traveling without a Passport; Stasiek: Transnational Entrepreneur; Chapter 7 "THIS REGION IS OUR PRIORITY": EU SUBSIDIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSNATIONAL REGIONAL COMMUNITY ; Joasia: Social Entrepreneur
• Sommario/riassunto: Overthrowing communism in 1989 and joining the European Union in 2004, the Polish people hold loyalties to region, country and now continent - even as the definition of what it means to be 'European' remains unclear. Paying particular attention to those who came of age in the earliest years of the neoliberal and democratic transformations, this book uses the life-story narratives of rural and urban southern Poles to reveal how 'being European' is considered a fundamental component of 'being Polish' while participants are simultaneously 'becoming European'. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how the EU is regarded as both an idea and an instrument, and how ordinary citizens make choices that influence the shape of European identity and the legitimacy of its institutions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Being and becoming European in Poland
• ISBN: 1-306-86919-6; 1-78308-234-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464294803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies