The Kidnapping of Wroclaw´s Dwarves: The Symbolic Politics of Neoliberalism in Urban East-Central Europe

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Kidnapping of Wroclaw´s Dwarves: The Symbolic Politics of Neoliberalism in Urban East-Central Europe

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Kidnapping of Wroclaw´s Dwarves: The Symbolic Politics of Neoliberalism in Urban East-Central Europe

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AC - Archeologie, antropologie, etnologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

East European Politics and Societies

ISSN

0888-3254

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

27

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

743-756

Kód UT WoS článku

000326962200007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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