Central European Culture Wars. Beyond Post-Communism and Populism

0549784 - ÚSD 2022 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Kopeček, Michal
From Narrating Dissidence to Post-Dissident Narratives of Democracy. Anti-totalitarianism, Politics of Memory and Culture Wars in East-Central Europe 1970s-2000s.
Central European Culture Wars. Beyond Post-Communism and Populism. Prague: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2021 - (Barša, P.; Hesová, Z.; Slačálek, O.), s. 28-83. Humanitas, 15. ISBN 978-80-7671-034-4
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : anticommunist opposition * dissent * memory politics * narratives of democracy * civil society
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The author outlines a genealogy of contemporary 'culture wars' debates on national identity from within the dissident and (post)dissident debates of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia. The chapter reconstructs the main disputes about various concepts of nation, civil society and the democratic imaginary as a part of the dissident legacy. It shows that the national-conservative turn was one among the possible actualizations of discourses on nation and democracy present in the anti-communist oppostition before 1989.
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