The spectre of the queue : resignifying the past in the post-communist Czech Republic

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41290-019-00068-9" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41290-019-00068-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41290-019-00068-9" target="_blank" >10.1057/s41290-019-00068-9</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The spectre of the queue : resignifying the past in the post-communist Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Long queues for basic goods, including food, had to be endured routinely on the streets of Czech cities from the 1950s until the late 1980s as a result of the constant shortages of consumer goods in the centrally planned economy. After the fall of the communist regime, queues disappeared from the street, but they started a new, second, life in the public discourse. Today, more than 25 years after the fall of the regime, the images of the "communist queue" are still vivid and reproduced in jokes, metaphors, and media images. The paper shows how the queue, disembodied from the everyday interaction, became a morally and emotionally charged signifier. Remembered as unjust, humiliating, and absurd, the "communist queue" stands in opposition to theoretical models of queues and serves as a synecdoche for the memory of the communist past as a whole. In the post-communist public discourse, the queue became a powerful, polluted symbol used both to endorse and to criticise free market capitalism. This paper suggests that its prevalence is a cultural driving force behind post-communist privatism.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The spectre of the queue : resignifying the past in the post-communist Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

Long queues for basic goods, including food, had to be endured routinely on the streets of Czech cities from the 1950s until the late 1980s as a result of the constant shortages of consumer goods in the centrally planned economy. After the fall of the communist regime, queues disappeared from the street, but they started a new, second, life in the public discourse. Today, more than 25 years after the fall of the regime, the images of the "communist queue" are still vivid and reproduced in jokes, metaphors, and media images. The paper shows how the queue, disembodied from the everyday interaction, became a morally and emotionally charged signifier. Remembered as unjust, humiliating, and absurd, the "communist queue" stands in opposition to theoretical models of queues and serves as a synecdoche for the memory of the communist past as a whole. In the post-communist public discourse, the queue became a powerful, polluted symbol used both to endorse and to criticise free market capitalism. This paper suggests that its prevalence is a cultural driving force behind post-communist privatism.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

American Journal of Cultural Sociology

ISSN

2049-7113

e-ISSN

2049-7121

Svazek periodika

8

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

191-213

Kód UT WoS článku

000546699700003

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85062596636