Discrimination for the Sake of the Nation

This book examines the discriminatory language against Others by the League of Polish Families, a contemporary nationalist party that was active in Polish politics from 2001 to 2007. The author shows the confrontation of the tradition of National Democracy with the social and cultural conditions of today's Poland.

This book examines the intertwined relationship between contemporary Polish politics and national culture by focusing on the phenomenon of discrimination. The object of the analysis is the language of the League of Polish Families, a populist party that recreated the climate of pre-war National Democracy in Poland from 2001 to 2007 by negatively labeling the nation's Others. Through the political party's discourse of discrimination, the book grasps a peculiar moment of Poland that faced uncertainty of identity upon its accession to the European Union. By adopting a method of critical discourse analysis, the author attests to the party's political use of different layers of national traditions in denigrating Jews, sexual minorities and feminists while sanctifying the Polish nation.

Autorentext

Yasuko Shibata, PhD, is lecturer at Collegium Civitas and the Polish-Japanese Institute of Computer Technology in Warsaw. Her latest research project at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences concerns institutional discourse on Chopin s music in Japan and Poland.

Inhalt

Contents: Discrimination Stranger The League of Polish Families Polish National Culture Three Traditions of Polish Patriotism National Democracy Critical Discourse Analysis Critique of fantasies Populism EU Accession Euroscepticism Racist and Xenophobic Discourse Homophobic Discourse Gendered Discourse.