The pleasure of continuity: Re-reading post-socialist nostalgia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F18%3A10364640" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/18:10364640 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877917741693" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877917741693</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877917741693" target="_blank" >10.1177/1367877917741693</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The pleasure of continuity: Re-reading post-socialist nostalgia
Original language description
This article explores uses and modalities of the concept of post-socialist nostalgia in the still emerging field of cultural studies focused on the region of Central and Eastern Europe. It encapsulates both the cultural and socio-political forms of post-socialist nostalgia, defined as tinkering with the remnants of the socialist popular culture, television, fashion or design and reminiscing about social welfare under Communist Party rule. The main aim of this theoretical article is to demonstrate the anti-hegemonic dimension of post-socialist nostalgia, which disturbed the official memory politics that promoted discontinuity with the socialist past in the early post-transformation period of the 1990s. The dynamics in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic in this period are presented to illuminate how discontinuity in memory politics was embedded in retroactive justice, legislation, the economy, etc. In contrast to these elitist discourses reducing the memory of socialism to its crimes, the pop-cultural post-socialist nostalgia (the lowbrow discourse less strictly policed for discontinuity) served as the venue through which continuity with socialism was redeemed. Reunion with one's own past and reclaiming the right to remember the past fully is presented as a source of cultural pleasure, the backbone of both types of postsocialist nostalgia.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-02521S" target="_blank" >GA17-02521S: Poverty as Media Spectacle: Shaming the Low-Income People on Reality Television and Internet</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Cultural Studies
ISSN
1367-8779
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
587-602
UT code for WoS article
000447784800002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85052223921