From "De Facto King" to Peasants' Communes

This article presents a conceptual history of representation in the political debates of the Polish émigré community in the period 1832-1846/48. As I argue, while the concept was present in the output of all political environments of the Polish Great Emigration, there were more discrepancies than similarities about how to understand it. As a result of debates about what the Polish diaspora in exile actually was and who had the right to represent it, the concept became a part and parcel of political frays. In this way, the right to use it-and consequently to represent the whole Polish community and Polish nation as well-occupied a central place in the evolution of the concept of representation

Aesthetics · Conceptual history · De facto · Diaspora · Emigration · Ethnology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies