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Between East and West

Geographic Metaphors of Identity in Poland

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ID2474688
AuthorsMarysia H Galbraith, Marysia Galbraith (University of Alabama, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume32
Issue1
Pages51-81
Publication date2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/eth.2004.32.1.51
OpenAlexW2006457363
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited26

As Poland enters the European Union, questions of national identity relative to wider group loyalties become particularly salient. This study considers how individual life stories contribute to the discourse on what constitutes the Polish nation, and contemplates the implications of respondents' views for the achievement of European integration. I focus on Polish youths' use of metaphors of "betweenness," in which Poland fills the conceptual space between East and West, and "nested identities," based on simultaneous attachments to region, nation, and Europe, and consider how they might provide alternatives to models of identity which assume conflict with outside groups. In postcommunist Poland, more protectionist or conflict-based stances are sometimes taken, not so much because of political threats as in the past, but more in response to economic inequalities within Poland, and between Poland and the West

Aesthetics · European union · Geography · Identity (music) · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salient · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Law · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity

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