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Medialne życie katastrofy. Przypadek wybuchu w Czarnobylskiej Elektrowni Jądrowej

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Sarzyńska A.
Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2020
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vol. 109
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issue 2
53-68
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Among all known disasters, cataclysms and catastrophes, the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant holds a particular place in human memory. There are several reasons for that. Firstly, as one of the largest industrial disasters in history, it was an incident of truly global reach that put citizens of many countries at risk. Secondly, people were suddenly forced to confront with an invisible enemy, one that raises the greatest fear, which made that fight extremely uneven. Thirdly, the explosion occurred at a specific moment in history and in a specific country, as a result of which relevant information, limited as it was, was released to the public with a significant delay, with some events of 26 April 1986 not fully explained until today. These are probably only a few reasons why this catastrophe continues to stir emotions even after 30 years. The aim of the discussion presented here is to find the source of the current increase in interest in Chernobyl, analyse media discourse associated with disasters and predict their possible effects.
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Czarnobylska opowieść. Katastroficzny mit zapisany w fotografii

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Karpiel A.
Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2020
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vol. 109
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issue 2
234-245
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This article attempts to analyse and interpret the ever-growing popularity of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone among tourists, focusing on photographs taken by people visiting the Zone. The author draws conclusions based on her exploratory field research conducted in March 2019. She studies the statements and photographic practices of the trip participants, using them as a starting point for proposing her own theses. The stories of Chernobyl become the basis for reading the myth of a nuclear disaster, while photographs are a representation of tourist’s ideas of it. The key to their interpretation is to apply the theory of mythology developed by Roland Barthes and Claude Levi-Strauss to see the links between eternal oppositions, such as life-death, ordinary-unusual, nature-culture, disaster-everyday life. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone becomes the stage on which the mythical tale of ‘the world turned upside down’ and ‘the city without people’ is told.
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