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O potrzebie ujęć subwersywnych w badaniach nad pograniczem
The Need for Subversiveness in Studies on Borderlands

Author(s): Paweł Bukowiec
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Social Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: pogranicze; tożsamość; subwersywność; napisy nagrobne; Żmudź

Summary/Abstract: The word „pogranicze” (in rough translation: borderland) gets more and more popular in Polish humanities as the equivalent of untranslatable and inconvenient „Kresy”, the first being free of polonocentric, colonial conotations of the latter. The article: presents the logic of a map as fundamental to the notion „pogranicze”, discusses its discoursive consequences and points to the need of deconstructive, subversive uses of the term.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 81-90
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish