Tomasz Zarycki
Biographic Data
| ID | 203319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomasz Zarycki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomasz |
| FAMILY NAME | Zarycki |
| SIGNATURE | ZARYCKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2330-4499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Fall of the Imperial Order as Rescaling of Fields of Power: The Russian-Polish Transition, 1914-1918
This paper theorizes the transformation of the pre-1914 imperial order in Central Europe into the post-1918 nation-state system through the concept of rescaling of fields of power, drawing on Bourdieu’s field theory and new imperial history. Rescaling designates the process by which a social field shifts its organizational scale, with a corresponding reorganization of capital hierarchies and conversion mechanisms. Post-imperial rescaling is theor…
Hamulce i motory rozwoju gospodarczego Polski. Dyskusja o książce Piotra Korysia Pożegnanie z pańszczyzną. Historia gospodarcza Polski od rozbiorów do dziś
Ksika Poegnanie z paszcz yzn (2024) podsumowuje pewien etap bada, co wydawao mi si o tyle istotne, e od
Interdyscyplinarność a zagrożenia strukturalne dla socjologii krytycznej. Artykuł dyskusyjny
W artykule przedstawiono pogląd na temat zagrożeń wynikających dla socjologii, w szczególności socjologii krytycznej, ze strukturalnych przemian w naukach społecznych, których legitymizacją jest coraz większe znacznie interdyscyplinarności. Jak wskazano, można je wiązać z rosnącymi presjami zewnętrznymi na nauki społeczne, a także związanym z tym wzrastającym współzawodnictwem pomiędzy poszczególnymi dyscyplinami, w której to konfrontacji sytuac…
The first "Unmodern" Nation: Germany and Poland's imperial exclusion from modernity
This article explores how internal exclusion within European empires shaped the development of modern social theory. While critical theory has traditionally examined the colonial foundations of modern social sciences, this study highlights the marginalization of certain regions and groups within Europe itself. Empirically, it focuses on nineteenth-century Germany and its exclusion of Poles and Poland. By examining cultural and academic discourses…
Marco Santoro, Mafia Politics
On the Different Criteria of Global and Local Success for Scholars in Peripheral Social Sciences: A Response to Reviews of My Book “The Polish Elite and Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Hist…
In their insightful comments on my book
From Wallerstein to Rothschild: The Sudden Disappearance of the Polish School of Dependency Theory After 1989 as a Manifestation of Deeper Transformations in the Global Field of Social Science
This article investigates a neglected issue of the influence of systemic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe on the (sub)field of social sciences and more broadly on local fields of power. Our case study concerns a vibrant and internationally connected network of scholars from various disciplines and generations who were involved in developing and popularizing a dependency paradigm in communist Poland. As we show that the fall of communi…
On the Relevance of the Polish and East European Experiences in the Study of Global “Race” Regimes
This essay responds to József Böröcz's “‘Eurowhite’ Conceit, ‘Dirty White’ Ressentment: ‘Race’ in Europe” published in “Forum.” I use Böröcz's framework to point to the potential wider relevance of studies on race‐related hierarchies from Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. They also include works on Poles migrating to Western Europe and America, which, as I am arguing, may give unique insights into the workings of the globa…
Cultural citizenship without state: Historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model
Citizenship is usually seen as a product of modern nation-states, or of other political entities which possess institutional infrastructures and political systems capable of producing a coherent framework that defines the relationship between that system and its members. In this paper, we show that an early system of modern citizenship was created in the absence of a formal state, notably by the cultural elite of a stateless nation. The Polish ca…
Why Geography in Poland Has Never Radicalized: Political and International Entanglements of Polish Geography Seen Through the Prism of Antoni Kukliński’s Professional Trajectory
This paper deals with the role of social sciences, and more specifically of geography and regional planning, in the legitimization of European integration and neo-liberal economic and social reforms introduced since 1989 in Poland and, more broadly, in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. Using the example of an intellectual biography of Antoni Kukliński, one of the most prominent Polish geographers, the role of the old intelligentsia elite…
Polska historiografia po roku 1989: Spojrzenie socjologa nauki
The text presents an overview of the state of Polish historiography after 1989 seen from the perspective of the sociology of science, in particular the so-called critical sociology. It points, firstly, to the main achievements, weaknesses, and potential directions for the development of disciplines, especially global history; secondly, to the history of empires, closely related to global history; and thirdly, to the study of the history of modern…
The Extended Family
After World War II, Polish nobility was commonly considered an obsolete social group because of the post-1945 confiscation of their properties and the decline of their legal and political privileges. From a formal point of view, the Polish nobility had ceased to exist. However, this group did not simply vanish. For this reason, we should not speak of the disintegration of the former noble milieu but rather its reorganization. To expand deliberati…
Czterdziestolatek po czterdziestu latach. Obraz lat siedemdziesiątych XX wieku czy inteligencki głos w sporze o przyszły kształt polskiego pola władzy
This article is an attempt at a fairly detailed analysis of the TV series Being Forty in its first version of the 1970s. The text proposes an interpretation of the film from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory and in particular reconstructs the social sphere of the film’s protagonists, which consists of the intelligentsia elite, the nomenklatura, the lower intelligentsia, and medium-level technical personnel. In the picture produced by th…
The Social Construction of Historical Traumas: The Polish Experience of the Uses of History in an Intelligentsia-dominated Polity
The article argues that Poland’s mainstream national historical narrative, at least as far as the last two centuries of history of the country is concerned, is full of ‘traumatic’ motives which are regularly used and developed in diverse current political and intellectual contexts. Polish history is imagined to a large extent as an endless chain of 200 years of suffering, caused, among other things, by occupations, wars and exploitation, which ar…
Crises of the communist and neoliberal orders 30 years later: A structural comparison between 1975 and 2019 Poland
This article proposes to look at the current moment in the recent history of the so-called Central-European countries, with Poland as a critical case study, through a structural comparison with an earlier historical cycle, that is one of the first three decades of the communist rule in the region. Thus, I propose to compare the social and economic situation in Poland of circa 1975 with that of 2019, so 30 years after the establishment of a new gi…
The Roots of Polish Culture-Centered Politics: Toward a Non–Purely Cultural Model of Cultural Domination in Central and Eastern Europe
This article’s main aim is to propose a novel model explaining the continuous domination of identity issues in modern Polish political discourse. The model proposed here may also appear useful as an explanation of similar tendencies in some other Central European countries. It is based on a specific reading of the modern history of the region—one relying on a structural perspective and specifically using Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of a “field of po…
The intelligentsia informed habitus in social distance strategies of Polish migrants in the UK
Antagonism and conflict within newly resident UK Polish migrants has been typically related to labour market competition. Without denying the relevance of this argument, we argue that explanations of antagonism within the Polish community should also take into account the role of a Polish intelligentsia habitus. This habitus provides a repertoire of available discursive strategies used for interpreting antagonistic and "risk" situations both in P…
The electoral geography of Poland: Between stable spatial structures and their changing interpretations
Class Analysis in Conditions of a Dual-Stratification Order
This article presents a critique of classic applications of class analysis to Polish society. It argues from a Bourdieusian standpoint that class is subordinate to culture in shaping social relations in Poland. More specifically, Poland can be seen as a dual-stratification order, with the economic logic of class clashing continually with the logic of rank, which is defined in terms of cultural capital. These two models of logics appear to be in c…
Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe
This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, developed a new ideology of their place in the world. Drawing on post-colonial theory and on identity discourses in the writings of local intelligentsia figures, the book shows how people in these countries no longer think of themselves as part of the "east", and how they have invented new stereotypes of the c…
Bourdieu recontextualized: Redefinitions of western critical thought in the periphery
This article analyses the redefinition of global discourse in semi-peripheral settings; it proposes a model for the semi-peripheral recontextualization of critical discourses originating from the western core of the global intellectual system. The process of redefinition of global discourses in semi-peripheral settings appears to involve their parallel appropriation by actors whose positions can be reconstructed through Bourdieu's field concept, …
Jan Sowa. „Fantomowe ciało króla. Peryferyjne zmagania z nowoczesną formą”
Transgression as a Rule: German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU Enlargement by Ulrich Best
Best, Ulrich , Transgression as a Rule: German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU Enlargement . Berlin : LIT Verlag , 2007 . ISBN 978-3-8258-0654-5 Ulrich Best's book deals with the transformation of the role that borders play in contemporary Europe and the challenge this transformation presents to the discipline of border studies. His study is focused on the case of the Polish–German border in recent years; however, the lar…
The power of the intelligentsia: The Rywin Affair and the challenge of applying the concept of cultural capital to analyze Poland's elites
Kapitał kulturowy. Inteligencja w Polsce i w Rosji
W książce autor stawia pytanie o możliwe sposoby odniesienia teorii kapitału kulturowego – będącej elementem systemu teoretycznego rozwiniętego przez znanego francuskiego socjologa Pierre`a Bourdieu – do analizy współczesnych społeczeństw Europy
Politics in the Periphery: Political Cleavages in Poland Interpreted in their Historical and International Context
(2000). Politics in the Periphery: Political Cleavages in Poland Interpreted in their Historical and International Context. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 851-873
Uses of Russia: The Role of Russia in the Modern Polish National Identity
The article deals with negative aspects of Russia’s representations in Polish public discourse and the mechanisms of their reproduction. It is not as much focused on the historical roots of Polish images of Russia as on the functions they play in the logic of Polish national identity. Additionally, the article attempts to theorize certain aspects of the production of Russia’s image in Poland. A particular reference is made to the center-periphery…
The Roots of Polish Culture-Centered Politics: Toward a Non–Purely Cultural Model of Cultural Domination in Central and Eastern Europe
This article’s main aim is to propose a novel model explaining the continuous domination of identity issues in modern Polish political discourse. The model proposed here may also appear useful as an explanation of similar tendencies in some other Central European countries. It is based on a specific reading of the modern history of the region—one relying on a structural perspective and specifically using Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of a “field of po…
The power of the intelligentsia: The Rywin Affair and the challenge of applying the concept of cultural capital to analyze Poland's elites
On the Relevance of the Polish and East European Experiences in the Study of Global “Race” Regimes
This essay responds to József Böröcz's “‘Eurowhite’ Conceit, ‘Dirty White’ Ressentment: ‘Race’ in Europe” published in “Forum.” I use Böröcz's framework to point to the potential wider relevance of studies on race‐related hierarchies from Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. They also include works on Poles migrating to Western Europe and America, which, as I am arguing, may give unique insights into the workings of the globa…
Class Analysis in Conditions of a Dual-Stratification Order
This article presents a critique of classic applications of class analysis to Polish society. It argues from a Bourdieusian standpoint that class is subordinate to culture in shaping social relations in Poland. More specifically, Poland can be seen as a dual-stratification order, with the economic logic of class clashing continually with the logic of rank, which is defined in terms of cultural capital. These two models of logics appear to be in c…
Hidden dimensions: The stability and structure of regional political cleavages in Poland
The main aim of this paper is to show that behind the complex and fluid surface dimension of the Polish political scene it is possible to reveal a relatively stable two-dimensional structure of deep political identities. The study is based on the analysis of ecological data — the results of elections from 1990 to 1997. The results prove the exceptional stability of the Polish electoral geography and appear to be consistent with other studies base…
The intelligentsia informed habitus in social distance strategies of Polish migrants in the UK
Antagonism and conflict within newly resident UK Polish migrants has been typically related to labour market competition. Without denying the relevance of this argument, we argue that explanations of antagonism within the Polish community should also take into account the role of a Polish intelligentsia habitus. This habitus provides a repertoire of available discursive strategies used for interpreting antagonistic and "risk" situations both in P…
History and regional development. A controversy over the ‘right’ interpretation of the role of history in the development of the Polish regions
Cultural capital and the political role of the intelligentsia in Poland
The Polish political scene can be analysed by reference to the role of cultural capital, as well as economic and social capitals, defined as the main resources of competing political camps. While the role of cultural capital is undergoing a significant redefinition in contemporary Poland, it remains a basis of the crucial cleavage of the Polish political scene. In particular, the recent split between the old Freedom Union Party and the new Civic …
The Social Construction of Historical Traumas: The Polish Experience of the Uses of History in an Intelligentsia-dominated Polity
The article argues that Poland’s mainstream national historical narrative, at least as far as the last two centuries of history of the country is concerned, is full of ‘traumatic’ motives which are regularly used and developed in diverse current political and intellectual contexts. Polish history is imagined to a large extent as an endless chain of 200 years of suffering, caused, among other things, by occupations, wars and exploitation, which ar…
Crises of the communist and neoliberal orders 30 years later: A structural comparison between 1975 and 2019 Poland
This article proposes to look at the current moment in the recent history of the so-called Central-European countries, with Poland as a critical case study, through a structural comparison with an earlier historical cycle, that is one of the first three decades of the communist rule in the region. Thus, I propose to compare the social and economic situation in Poland of circa 1975 with that of 2019, so 30 years after the establishment of a new gi…
Bourdieu recontextualized: Redefinitions of western critical thought in the periphery
This article analyses the redefinition of global discourse in semi-peripheral settings; it proposes a model for the semi-peripheral recontextualization of critical discourses originating from the western core of the global intellectual system. The process of redefinition of global discourses in semi-peripheral settings appears to involve their parallel appropriation by actors whose positions can be reconstructed through Bourdieu's field concept, …
The first "Unmodern" Nation: Germany and Poland's imperial exclusion from modernity
This article explores how internal exclusion within European empires shaped the development of modern social theory. While critical theory has traditionally examined the colonial foundations of modern social sciences, this study highlights the marginalization of certain regions and groups within Europe itself. Empirically, it focuses on nineteenth-century Germany and its exclusion of Poles and Poland. By examining cultural and academic discourses…
Cultural citizenship without state: Historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model
Citizenship is usually seen as a product of modern nation-states, or of other political entities which possess institutional infrastructures and political systems capable of producing a coherent framework that defines the relationship between that system and its members. In this paper, we show that an early system of modern citizenship was created in the absence of a formal state, notably by the cultural elite of a stateless nation. The Polish ca…
The Extended Family
After World War II, Polish nobility was commonly considered an obsolete social group because of the post-1945 confiscation of their properties and the decline of their legal and political privileges. From a formal point of view, the Polish nobility had ceased to exist. However, this group did not simply vanish. For this reason, we should not speak of the disintegration of the former noble milieu but rather its reorganization. To expand deliberati…
Politics in the Periphery: Political Cleavages in Poland Interpreted in their Historical and International Context
(2000). Politics in the Periphery: Political Cleavages in Poland Interpreted in their Historical and International Context. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 851-873
Hidden dimensions: The stability and structure of regional political cleavages in Poland
The main aim of this paper is to show that behind the complex and fluid surface dimension of the Polish political scene it is possible to reveal a relatively stable two-dimensional structure of deep political identities. The study is based on the analysis of ecological data — the results of elections from 1990 to 1997. The results prove the exceptional stability of the Polish electoral geography and appear to be consistent with other studies base…
Cultural capital and the political role of the intelligentsia in Poland
The Polish political scene can be analysed by reference to the role of cultural capital, as well as economic and social capitals, defined as the main resources of competing political camps. While the role of cultural capital is undergoing a significant redefinition in contemporary Poland, it remains a basis of the crucial cleavage of the Polish political scene. In particular, the recent split between the old Freedom Union Party and the new Civic …
Uses of Russia: The Role of Russia in the Modern Polish National Identity
The article deals with negative aspects of Russia’s representations in Polish public discourse and the mechanisms of their reproduction. It is not as much focused on the historical roots of Polish images of Russia as on the functions they play in the logic of Polish national identity. Additionally, the article attempts to theorize certain aspects of the production of Russia’s image in Poland. A particular reference is made to the center-periphery…
History and regional development. A controversy over the ‘right’ interpretation of the role of history in the development of the Polish regions
Kapitał kulturowy. Inteligencja w Polsce i w Rosji
W książce autor stawia pytanie o możliwe sposoby odniesienia teorii kapitału kulturowego – będącej elementem systemu teoretycznego rozwiniętego przez znanego francuskiego socjologa Pierre`a Bourdieu – do analizy współczesnych społeczeństw Europy
The power of the intelligentsia: The Rywin Affair and the challenge of applying the concept of cultural capital to analyze Poland's elites
Transgression as a Rule: German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU Enlargement by Ulrich Best
Best, Ulrich , Transgression as a Rule: German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU Enlargement . Berlin : LIT Verlag , 2007 . ISBN 978-3-8258-0654-5 Ulrich Best's book deals with the transformation of the role that borders play in contemporary Europe and the challenge this transformation presents to the discipline of border studies. His study is focused on the case of the Polish–German border in recent years; however, the lar…
Jan Sowa. „Fantomowe ciało króla. Peryferyjne zmagania z nowoczesną formą”
Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe
This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, developed a new ideology of their place in the world. Drawing on post-colonial theory and on identity discourses in the writings of local intelligentsia figures, the book shows how people in these countries no longer think of themselves as part of the "east", and how they have invented new stereotypes of the c…
Bourdieu recontextualized: Redefinitions of western critical thought in the periphery
This article analyses the redefinition of global discourse in semi-peripheral settings; it proposes a model for the semi-peripheral recontextualization of critical discourses originating from the western core of the global intellectual system. The process of redefinition of global discourses in semi-peripheral settings appears to involve their parallel appropriation by actors whose positions can be reconstructed through Bourdieu's field concept, …
The electoral geography of Poland: Between stable spatial structures and their changing interpretations
Class Analysis in Conditions of a Dual-Stratification Order
This article presents a critique of classic applications of class analysis to Polish society. It argues from a Bourdieusian standpoint that class is subordinate to culture in shaping social relations in Poland. More specifically, Poland can be seen as a dual-stratification order, with the economic logic of class clashing continually with the logic of rank, which is defined in terms of cultural capital. These two models of logics appear to be in c…
The Roots of Polish Culture-Centered Politics: Toward a Non–Purely Cultural Model of Cultural Domination in Central and Eastern Europe
This article’s main aim is to propose a novel model explaining the continuous domination of identity issues in modern Polish political discourse. The model proposed here may also appear useful as an explanation of similar tendencies in some other Central European countries. It is based on a specific reading of the modern history of the region—one relying on a structural perspective and specifically using Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of a “field of po…
The intelligentsia informed habitus in social distance strategies of Polish migrants in the UK
Antagonism and conflict within newly resident UK Polish migrants has been typically related to labour market competition. Without denying the relevance of this argument, we argue that explanations of antagonism within the Polish community should also take into account the role of a Polish intelligentsia habitus. This habitus provides a repertoire of available discursive strategies used for interpreting antagonistic and "risk" situations both in P…
Czterdziestolatek po czterdziestu latach. Obraz lat siedemdziesiątych XX wieku czy inteligencki głos w sporze o przyszły kształt polskiego pola władzy
This article is an attempt at a fairly detailed analysis of the TV series Being Forty in its first version of the 1970s. The text proposes an interpretation of the film from the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory and in particular reconstructs the social sphere of the film’s protagonists, which consists of the intelligentsia elite, the nomenklatura, the lower intelligentsia, and medium-level technical personnel. In the picture produced by th…
The Social Construction of Historical Traumas: The Polish Experience of the Uses of History in an Intelligentsia-dominated Polity
The article argues that Poland’s mainstream national historical narrative, at least as far as the last two centuries of history of the country is concerned, is full of ‘traumatic’ motives which are regularly used and developed in diverse current political and intellectual contexts. Polish history is imagined to a large extent as an endless chain of 200 years of suffering, caused, among other things, by occupations, wars and exploitation, which ar…
Crises of the communist and neoliberal orders 30 years later: A structural comparison between 1975 and 2019 Poland
This article proposes to look at the current moment in the recent history of the so-called Central-European countries, with Poland as a critical case study, through a structural comparison with an earlier historical cycle, that is one of the first three decades of the communist rule in the region. Thus, I propose to compare the social and economic situation in Poland of circa 1975 with that of 2019, so 30 years after the establishment of a new gi…
Why Geography in Poland Has Never Radicalized: Political and International Entanglements of Polish Geography Seen Through the Prism of Antoni Kukliński’s Professional Trajectory
This paper deals with the role of social sciences, and more specifically of geography and regional planning, in the legitimization of European integration and neo-liberal economic and social reforms introduced since 1989 in Poland and, more broadly, in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. Using the example of an intellectual biography of Antoni Kukliński, one of the most prominent Polish geographers, the role of the old intelligentsia elite…
Polska historiografia po roku 1989: Spojrzenie socjologa nauki
The text presents an overview of the state of Polish historiography after 1989 seen from the perspective of the sociology of science, in particular the so-called critical sociology. It points, firstly, to the main achievements, weaknesses, and potential directions for the development of disciplines, especially global history; secondly, to the history of empires, closely related to global history; and thirdly, to the study of the history of modern…
The Extended Family
After World War II, Polish nobility was commonly considered an obsolete social group because of the post-1945 confiscation of their properties and the decline of their legal and political privileges. From a formal point of view, the Polish nobility had ceased to exist. However, this group did not simply vanish. For this reason, we should not speak of the disintegration of the former noble milieu but rather its reorganization. To expand deliberati…
On the Relevance of the Polish and East European Experiences in the Study of Global “Race” Regimes
This essay responds to József Böröcz's “‘Eurowhite’ Conceit, ‘Dirty White’ Ressentment: ‘Race’ in Europe” published in “Forum.” I use Böröcz's framework to point to the potential wider relevance of studies on race‐related hierarchies from Poland and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. They also include works on Poles migrating to Western Europe and America, which, as I am arguing, may give unique insights into the workings of the globa…
Cultural citizenship without state: Historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model
Citizenship is usually seen as a product of modern nation-states, or of other political entities which possess institutional infrastructures and political systems capable of producing a coherent framework that defines the relationship between that system and its members. In this paper, we show that an early system of modern citizenship was created in the absence of a formal state, notably by the cultural elite of a stateless nation. The Polish ca…
On the Different Criteria of Global and Local Success for Scholars in Peripheral Social Sciences: A Response to Reviews of My Book “The Polish Elite and Language Sciences: A Perspective of Global Hist…
In their insightful comments on my book
From Wallerstein to Rothschild: The Sudden Disappearance of the Polish School of Dependency Theory After 1989 as a Manifestation of Deeper Transformations in the Global Field of Social Science
This article investigates a neglected issue of the influence of systemic transformation in Central and Eastern Europe on the (sub)field of social sciences and more broadly on local fields of power. Our case study concerns a vibrant and internationally connected network of scholars from various disciplines and generations who were involved in developing and popularizing a dependency paradigm in communist Poland. As we show that the fall of communi…
Sociology (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Political science (21 works) · Politics (20 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (14 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (10 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (8 works)