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| Edition: | 1 |
| Place and year of publication: | Warszawa 2021 |
| Publication language: | polski |
| Translator: | Lembas Jadwiga , Szczur Przemysław |
| Title of original: | Science du passé et politique du présent en Pologne. L’histoire du temps présent (1939–1989), de la genèse à l’Institut de la Mémoire Nationale |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 978-83-235-5438-7 |
| EAN: | 9788323554387 |
| Number of page: | 410 |
| Size of the file: | 1,6 MB |
| Publication type: | Praca naukowa , Open access |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323554301 |
Postwar Polish Historiography as a Battle Field. A Study in Sociology of Knowledge and Politics
The book proposes a sociological analysis of Polish historiography of the contemporary period that treats the creation of Polish history as a type of public policy. Based on rich empirical material and using a number of research methods, most notably Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of fields, the author argues that policy of this kind was pursued, albeit using somewhat different methods, both in the People’s Republic of Poland and after the fall of communism. In keeping with this approach, the historians he studies are also seen as co-creators of historical policy, inevitably entangled in processes of instrumentalizing history, which Valentin Behr systematically investigates in terms of interrelations between social fields.
The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode).
Keywords: contemporary history, historical policy, historiography, historical field, sociology of knowledge, Polish scientific elite, history of science.
The book proposes a sociological analysis of Polish historiography of the contemporary period that treats the creation of Polish history as a type of public policy. Based on rich empirical material and using a number of research methods, most notably Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of fields, the author argues that policy of this kind was pursued, albeit using somewhat different methods, both in the People’s Republic of Poland and after the fall of communism. In keeping with this approach, the historians he studies are also seen as co-creators of historical policy, inevitably entangled in processes of instrumentalizing history, which Valentin Behr systematically investigates in terms of interrelations between social fields.
The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode).
Keywords: contemporary history, historical policy, historiography, historical field, sociology of knowledge, Polish scientific elite, history of science.
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