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"THE CHARM OF THE PRL". MEMORY CULTURE, (POST)SOCIALIST NOSTALGIA AND HISTORICAL TOURISM IN POLAND

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Balcerzak A.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

2021

vol. 69

issue 2

255 - 273

The article explores the mechanisms of memory culture and the commercialization of the socialist heritage from the period of the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) (from 1945 to 1989) as a tourist destination, societal practice and cultural resource in today’s Warsaw. At the intersection of heritage studies, historical tourism and material culture, the ethnographic analysis focuses on three empirical case studies as examples of the commercial popularization of the history of the PRL. These are the communist heritage tours offered by WPT 1313 and the documentation of the socialist heritage at the Museum of Life in the PRL and the Neon Museum. These commodified products of Warsaw’s tourism and entertainment culture fill a gap in the tourist market, based on the prototypical, nostalgic longing of tourists for a sensual and emotional experience of the “authentic past”. This predominantly participant observation-based ethnographic study on the practices, spaces, images and agents filling this touristic niche, illustrates how they create sensual-emotive, aesthetic and performative fields of reifying, discovering and experiencing the socialist past. Finally, the paper focuses on how these polyvalent mechanisms shape the tourist infrastructure of Warsaw oscillating between critical distancing and entertaining appropriation of the socialist heritage.

THE EVOLUTION OF INTER-ENTERPRISE NETWORKS AND THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN HUNGARY (A tulajdonosi halozatok evolucioja es kulfoldi tulajdon Magyarorszagon)

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Stark D., Vedres B.

Szociologiai Szemle (Sociological Review)

2009

vol. 19

issue 2

3-41

To model, from its inception, inter-enterprise network formation and its interaction with foreign investment across an entire epoch of rapid and profound economic transformation, the authors gathered data on the complete ownership histories of 1,696 of the largest Hungarian enterprises from 1987 to 2001. They developed a social sequence analysis to identify distinctive pathways whereby firms use network resources to buffer uncertainty, hide or restructure assets, or gain knowledge and legitimacy. During this period, networked property grew, stabilized, and involved a growing proportion of foreign capital. Cohesive networks of recombinant property were robust, and in fact integrated foreign investment. Although multinationals, through their subsidiaries, dissolved ties in joint venture arrangements, the authors found evidence that they also built durable networks. The findings suggest that developing economies do not necessarily face a forced choice between networks of global reach and those of local embeddedness.

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"THE CHARM OF THE PRL". MEMORY CULTURE, (POST)SOCIALIST NOSTALGIA AND HISTORICAL TOURISM IN POLAND

THE EVOLUTION OF INTER-ENTERPRISE NETWORKS AND THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN HUNGARY (A tulajdonosi halozatok evolucioja es kulfoldi tulajdon Magyarorszagon)