The Kidnapping of Wroclaw´s Dwarves: The Symbolic Politics of Neoliberalism in Urban East-Central Europe
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0888325413488627" target="_blank" >10.1177/0888325413488627</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Kidnapping of Wroclaw´s Dwarves: The Symbolic Politics of Neoliberalism in Urban East-Central Europe
Original language description
This paper draws on the approach to the study of ?actually existing liberalisms with an example from contemporary urban east-central Europe. The author focuses on the city of Wroclaw, a success story of Poland?s economic urban transformation, and considers the symbolic politics embodied in the city?s promotional strategy as a tool of ongoing neoliberal restructuring. She argues that an important feature of the city?s symbolic politics is the commodification and fetishization of dwarves, the historical symbols of an antitotalitarian movement that used the image of a dwarf as a means for people?s deliberative and performative action that helped lay foundations for democracy. Today, the historical legacy of dwarves as a means of associational and performative action has been disguised in the city?s promotional strategy, which has turned dwarves into commodities that help sell the city on the global neoliberal market of intercity competition. The author calls this process of contemporary f
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
East European Politics and Societies
ISSN
0888-3254
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Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
743-756
UT code for WoS article
000326962200007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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