Tomasz Rawski
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomasz Rawski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomasz |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawski |
| SIGNATURE | RAWSKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6850-2125 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Self-Identification as a Tool of (De-)Politicization
This article provides and discusses a typology of the self-identifications used by the post-2022 war-induced migrants from the Russian Federation, i.e., people who left Russia after it invaded Ukraine. We argue that this typology, which consists of three main elements—migrant/émigré (migrant/emigrant in Russian), refugee (bezhenets), and relocant (relokant)—is permeated by tensions between politicizing and depoliticizing one’s own migratory exper…
Slow memory of deindustrialization in post-communist Albanian literature
This article discusses various ways in which post-communist Albanian literature has addressed individual and social consequences of the violent deindustrialization of Albania that started immediately after the fall of communism. Deindustrialization quickly brought an already economically inefficient Albania to the edge of devastation as many factories suddenly went bankrupt, social and political institutions collapsed, unemployment skyrocketed, a…
Reclaiming sovereignty over the body
This article examines the lived migratory experience of Russian citizens who have left their country after Vladimir Putin's announcement of the partial mobilisation of military reservists on September 21, 2022. By using the ‘assemblage approach’ to migration, and the concept of ‘aleatory sovereignty,’ both embedded in Michel Foucault's reflection on bio-/thanato-politics and Achille Mbembe's reflection on necropolitics, this article discusses pos…
Pathways to Agonism
The perception and interpretation of conflicting mnemonic narratives
Every society is marked by memory gaps. Taking Poland and (East) Germany as examples, we use a social constructivist-poststructuralist approach and conduct focus groups and qualitative interviews to investigate how the communist past is remembered in private everyday discourse and its differentiation from the hegemonic public memory discourse. Both countries exhibit striking parallels in their everyday and hegemonic memory practices, but they dif…
Nation-State Reframed
The article discusses the memory struggle over the genealogy of the Third Polish Republic which took place in the Polish parliament in the late 1990s. This struggle ensued around the National Independence Day and was decisive in establishing the symbolic definition of Polish post-1989 statehood as anti-communist. The article demonstrates how post-Solidarity mnemonic “warriors,” who promoted an anti-communist definition of statehood aimed at full …
Ludowa historia Polski. Między krytyką elit a upodmiotowieniem ludu
Miloš Zeman and Andrzej Duda – reinventing image for election campaign purposes
The aim of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of selected elements of strategies for building political image of Miloš Zeman and Andrzej Duda, applied in the presidential campaign in Poland and Czechia in 2013 and 2015. The paper presents not only basic information about both campaigns, but primarily points to a number of common features, such as main motifs (history, family, the future), the target group and its image, communication…
The Decline of Antifascism
The article discusses a shift, of the paradigm structuring Polish official memory of World War II and the state-socialist period from antifascist to anticommunist, that took place in the post-1989 Polish parliament. Based on the example of the political struggle in parliament over the memory of May 1945 (Victory Day) that occurred on three consecutive major anniversaries of this event (1995, 2005, and 2015), the article shows how the right-wing p…
The perception and interpretation of conflicting mnemonic narratives
Every society is marked by memory gaps. Taking Poland and (East) Germany as examples, we use a social constructivist-poststructuralist approach and conduct focus groups and qualitative interviews to investigate how the communist past is remembered in private everyday discourse and its differentiation from the hegemonic public memory discourse. Both countries exhibit striking parallels in their everyday and hegemonic memory practices, but they dif…
The Decline of Antifascism
The article discusses a shift, of the paradigm structuring Polish official memory of World War II and the state-socialist period from antifascist to anticommunist, that took place in the post-1989 Polish parliament. Based on the example of the political struggle in parliament over the memory of May 1945 (Victory Day) that occurred on three consecutive major anniversaries of this event (1995, 2005, and 2015), the article shows how the right-wing p…
Miloš Zeman and Andrzej Duda – reinventing image for election campaign purposes
The aim of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of selected elements of strategies for building political image of Miloš Zeman and Andrzej Duda, applied in the presidential campaign in Poland and Czechia in 2013 and 2015. The paper presents not only basic information about both campaigns, but primarily points to a number of common features, such as main motifs (history, family, the future), the target group and its image, communication…
The Decline of Antifascism
The article discusses a shift, of the paradigm structuring Polish official memory of World War II and the state-socialist period from antifascist to anticommunist, that took place in the post-1989 Polish parliament. Based on the example of the political struggle in parliament over the memory of May 1945 (Victory Day) that occurred on three consecutive major anniversaries of this event (1995, 2005, and 2015), the article shows how the right-wing p…
Ludowa historia Polski. Między krytyką elit a upodmiotowieniem ludu
Nation-State Reframed
The article discusses the memory struggle over the genealogy of the Third Polish Republic which took place in the Polish parliament in the late 1990s. This struggle ensued around the National Independence Day and was decisive in establishing the symbolic definition of Polish post-1989 statehood as anti-communist. The article demonstrates how post-Solidarity mnemonic “warriors,” who promoted an anti-communist definition of statehood aimed at full …
The perception and interpretation of conflicting mnemonic narratives
Every society is marked by memory gaps. Taking Poland and (East) Germany as examples, we use a social constructivist-poststructuralist approach and conduct focus groups and qualitative interviews to investigate how the communist past is remembered in private everyday discourse and its differentiation from the hegemonic public memory discourse. Both countries exhibit striking parallels in their everyday and hegemonic memory practices, but they dif…
Pathways to Agonism
Self-Identification as a Tool of (De-)Politicization
This article provides and discusses a typology of the self-identifications used by the post-2022 war-induced migrants from the Russian Federation, i.e., people who left Russia after it invaded Ukraine. We argue that this typology, which consists of three main elements—migrant/émigré (migrant/emigrant in Russian), refugee (bezhenets), and relocant (relokant)—is permeated by tensions between politicizing and depoliticizing one’s own migratory exper…
Slow memory of deindustrialization in post-communist Albanian literature
This article discusses various ways in which post-communist Albanian literature has addressed individual and social consequences of the violent deindustrialization of Albania that started immediately after the fall of communism. Deindustrialization quickly brought an already economically inefficient Albania to the edge of devastation as many factories suddenly went bankrupt, social and political institutions collapsed, unemployment skyrocketed, a…
Reclaiming sovereignty over the body
This article examines the lived migratory experience of Russian citizens who have left their country after Vladimir Putin's announcement of the partial mobilisation of military reservists on September 21, 2022. By using the ‘assemblage approach’ to migration, and the concept of ‘aleatory sovereignty,’ both embedded in Michel Foucault's reflection on bio-/thanato-politics and Achille Mbembe's reflection on necropolitics, this article discusses pos…
Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (4 works) · Communism (3 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)