Symbols and Society: Politics of Symbolization and Collective Memory 3500-FAKM-SYMSPOL
The course concentrates on the symbolic dimension of social life, symbolic power and politics of symbolization including politics of memory. Formation and transmission of social memory are among key socio-cultural processes. Problems associated with communities of memory, politics of memory, reckoning with the past and memory conflicts (local, international and global) have contributed to the fact that research on memory, forgetting and commemoration occupies a central place in the research fields of social and cultural sciences. Research on social memory and its symbolic vehicles encompasses, on the one hand, politics of memory (ethnic, national or European) aimed at the formation of identity and integration, and on the other hand, symbolic conflicts about collective memory. The general category of memory includes various mnemonic phenomena that will be analysed during the seminar, along with the concepts of collective memory, cultural memory and biographical memory. Cultural trauma and traumatic memory will be analysed. On the background of existing data or generated data, seminar participants will prepare case studies related to collective memory and symbolic politics.
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Participation at the course, participation at discussions, presentation based on the readings, essay on the subject related to the course topics.
Bibliography
Assmann Aleida, Między historią a pamięcią, Warszawa 2013: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, s. 39-57.
Connerton Paul, Jak społeczeństwa pamiętają, Warszawa 2012: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, a: s. 31-37; b: s.94-144.
Čolović Ivan, Polityka symboli, Kraków 2001: Universitas, s. 13-31.
Edelman Murray, The Symbolic Uses of Politics. With a new Afterword, Urbana1985, s. 195-214.
5. Hałas Elżbieta, Zmiany nazw ulic po komunizmie, w: Mirosława Marody (red.), Zmiana czy stagnacja, Warszawa 2004: SCHOLAR, s. 128-152.
6. Hałas Elżbieta, Symbole i społeczeństwo. Szkice z socjologii interpretacyjnej, Warszawa 2007: Wydawnictwa UW, A: s. 11-26; B: s. 55-73.
7. Hałas Elżbieta, Symbolizm Święta 3 Maja i dyskursy tożsamościowe po upadku komunizmu w Polsce, w: Renata Dopierała, Kaja Kaźmierska (red.), Tożsamość, nowoczesność, stereotypy, Kraków 2012: NOMOS, s. 19-37.
8. Kertzer David I., Politics and Symbols. The Italian Communist Party and the Fall of Communism, New Haven: Yale University Press, s. 153-171.
9. Szacka Barbara, Czas przeszły, pamięć, mit, Warszawa 2006: SCHOLAR, s. 17-31.
10. Uspienski Boris, Historia i semiotyka, Gdańsk 1998: słowo / obraz terytoria, s. 53-61.
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