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Telling the Great Change. The Process of the Systemic Transformation in Poland in Biographical Perspective

Telling the Great Change. The Process of the Systemic Transformation in Poland in Biographical Perspective

Kaja Kaźmierska, Katarzyna Waniek

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The book is pioneering in Poland, but also in Central Europe. lt shows the mechanisms of adaptation to the systemic transformation in Poland after 1989, based on the analysis of narratives of people born in 1960, 1970 and 1980 who are representatives of diverse social milieus and have different professional and life experiences. The reader will find here a model application of the biographical research methodology developed by Fritz Schütze for a series of case studies. which makes this publication the most extensive work using the indicated method for research on transformation. The authors of the individual chapters, emphasizing the individual agency of the subjects, avoid the pitfalls of neoliberal discourse shifting responsibility for their fates onto individuals. Apart from the analysis of autonomous ways of agency, they show various potentials of losing control over one’s life, biographical trajectories, as well as biographical resources, mainly of a family nature, which serve to deal mare effectively with the consequences of systemic transformation.

Foreword            9

 

Part 1. Introduction: “Telling the Great Change…” (Jacek Burski, Joanna Wygnańska)  13

 

Chapter I. Methodological note (Kaja Kaźmierska)          33

Chapter II. Winners and losers of the process of transformation as an etic category versus an emic biographical perspective (Kaja Kaźmierska)           49

Chapter III. Narrative agency and structural chaos. A biographical-narrative case study (Piotr Filipkowski)          79

 

Part 2. From PPR to systemic transformation (Joanna Wygnańska)        103

 

Chapter IV. The experience of systemic transformation in contemporary biographical narratives of older Poles (Danuta  Życzyńska-Ciołek)           115

Chapter V. Social innovators in coping with social problems – PPR, systemic transformation, and new Poland (Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas)    143

Chapter VI. Life of things from the perspective of the Polish systemic transformation (Renata Dopierała)          171

Chapter VII. Paradoxes of ideological privileges – a case study of a female textile worker from Łódź (Kaja Kaźmierska)                195

Chapter VIII. The process of acquiring and developing a critical attitude towards the socialist regime in Poland (Katarzyna Waniek)              229

Chapter IX. A new logic of power, old biographical patterns of action. Case study of Weronika’s life history (Joanna Wygnańska)      251

 

Part 3. Transforming opportunity structures: biographical chances, hopes, illusions, and dead-ends (Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas, Katarzyna Waniek)     281

 

Chapter X. Biographical traps of the transformation process – cohort 1980. The potentials of disorder and suffering in the experiences of young Polish women entering social worlds of art, medicine, and academia (Katarzyna Waniek)                297

Chapter XI. Transformation and the biographical experiences of healthcare workers (Jacek Burski)       349

Chapter XII. “Twist of fate”: declining and rising lines of occupational career in the biographical experiences of two engineers (Jacek Burski, Katarzyna Waniek)      385

 

Part 4. Biographical resources: family and social networks (Kaja Kaźmierska)   425

 

Chapter XIII. A trap of systemic changes – Pola’s biographical drift (Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas, Małgorzata Potoczna)                443

Chapter XIV. Narratives rooted in family milieu. Case studies of Agnieszka and Paweł focused on the family thread as the biographical resource and main story-line (Joanna Wygnańska)               475

Chapter XV. A biographical experience of the yard as a symbolic biographical resource (Jacek Burski, Joanna Wygnańska)                523

Chapter XVI. (Re)creating bonds in the local environment – a contrastive comparison of two life strategies (Kaja Kaźmierska)       563

 

Conclusions – Understanding transformation as a social change stretched in time and space (Kaja Kaźmierska, Katarzyna Waniek)              589

 

References        601

Appendix            633

Transcription Notation  633

List of narrators                635

Notes about the Authors            641

Index    645