TY  - CHAP
A1  - Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel
ED  - De Cesari, Chiara
ED  - Kaya, Ayhan
T1  - Memory games and populism in postcommunist Poland
T2  - European memory in populism. Representations of self and other. Edited by Chiara de Cesari, Ayhan Kaya
N2  - The chapter explores aspects of ‘memory games’ in postcommunist Poland vis-à-vis the country’s authoritarian communist past. In particular, it is interested in the populist moments of lustration and de-communization, and also after October 2015 when the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) won the parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland. The main argument is that even though legitimate considerations of lustration and de-communization play a role, a number of policies dealing with transitional justice are related to populist mobilization by the PiS. Against this background, the chapter discusses how far the transitional justice has been accompanied by the process of reframing the political memory about the guilt, suffering, and righteousness during communism. Populist legitimation aims at reconfiguring the public discourse on the transitional justice in a way that it is used to justify controversial public policies in tune with the interest of the groups currently in power, which present themselves as the true voice of the people. The core of the article deals with three main aspects of Polish memory games: (1) the meandering of lustration (mainly with regard to the position of the PiS/Law and Justice and PO/Civic Platform – the largest Polish political parties since 2005), (2) the lustration as the function of power, and (3) the role of the Institute of National Remembrance as a case of institutionalized memory games.
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-0-429-45481-3
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429454813
SP  - 239
EP  - 256
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - London, New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel
T1  - Der pebiszitäre Zerfall Europas?
BT  - Brexit, Deutschland und Mittelosteuropa
JF  - WeltTrends : das außenpolitische Journal [24 (2016), 118]
Y1  - 2016
VL  - 24
IS  - 113
SP  - 11
EP  - 14
PB  - WeltTrends
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -