The liminal Cityscape: Post-Communist Warsaw as Collective Representation

BARTMANSKI, Dominik Maksymilian. The liminal Cityscape: Post-Communist Warsaw as Collective Representation. In Chasing Warsaw. Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990. frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag, 2012, p. 133-160. Volume 15. ISBN 978-3-593-39778-8.

Basic information

• Original name: The liminal Cityscape: Post-Communist Warsaw as Collective Representation
• Name in Czech: Liminální Cityscape: Post-komunistická Varšava jako kolektivní reprezentace
• Authors: BARTMANSKI, Dominik Maksymilian (616 Poland, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: frankfurt/New York, Chasing Warsaw. Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990, p. 133-160, 28 pp. Volume 15, 2012.
• Publisher: Campus Verlag

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Chapter(s) of a specialized book
• Field of Study: 50000 5. Social Sciences
• Country of publisher: Germany
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/12:00061819
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-3-593-39778-8
• Keywords (in Czech): Varšava; post-komunismus; kolektivní reprezentace
• Keywords in English: Warsaw; post-communism; collective representation
• Tags: sociology

Abstract

Present chapter is a culturalist response to two strategic goals of the book. First, it enters the sociological discourse whose aim is to delineate the patterns of chnge and continuity in Warsaw under post-communist transition. Second, unlike the bult of pertinent literature that foregrounds materialist concerns, it contributes to this discourse from socio-semiotic vantage point. Author outlines what Warsaw can and does mean to various interpretative communities existentially connected to the city or preoccupied with it by profession and interest.