Populist in form, nationalist in content? Law and Justice, nationalism and memory politics

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dc.abstract.enThe article aims to analyse the mobilisation of a collective memory for political purposes by the Law and Justice party in Poland. PiS is often presented as a populist party, which came to power thanks to an anti-elite rhetoric and social programme. The party portrayed itself as a representative of socially excluded groups as well as a defender of ‘normal’ people against corrupted elites. At the same time, PiS mobilised its supporters by referring to a certain construction of the national past. We analyse the tension between populist rhetoric accompanying social reforms aimed at social inclusion and the practice of mobilising exclusive historical memory and strengthening exclusionary Polish national identity. In the selected examples of education reform, museum policy and the cult of the Cursed Soldiers, we demonstrate the traditional and nationalist approach of the party to history, which is reduced to heroic struggles for national freedom. In the image of the past evoked by PiS, the sharp division between ‘we, the simple people’ and ‘elites’ weakens; instead, the dichotomy between ‘us’ and ‘them’ is constructed in the national terms ‘Poles’ vs. ‘Others’.
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Społecznych
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Humanistycznych w Warszawie
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Humanistycznych
dc.contributor.authorJaskułowski, Krzysztof
dc.contributor.authorMajewski, Piotr
dc.date.access2023-10-19
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T08:17:15Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T08:17:15Z
dc.date.created2023
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.accesstimeat_publication
dc.description.grantnumberUMO-2019/33/B/HS6/00124
dc.description.granttitlePolityka pamięci wobec antykomunistycznego podziemia. Między państwowymi upamiętnieniami, a kulturą popularną i komercjalizacją
dc.description.issue4
dc.description.physical461-476
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume24
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23745118.2022.2058752
dc.identifier.eissn2374-5126
dc.identifier.issn2374-5118
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/82
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2022.2058752
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki socjologiczne
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o kulturze i religii
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.share.articleOPEN_REPOSITORY
dc.subject.enLaw and Justice
dc.subject.enpopulism
dc.subject.ennationalism
dc.subject.enmemory politics
dc.subject.encollective memory
dc.swps.sciencecloudsend
dc.titlePopulist in form, nationalist in content? Law and Justice, nationalism and memory politics
dc.title.journalEuropean Politics and Society
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle