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Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism: Unlicensed Print Culture in Poland 1976-1990 book cover

1st Edition

Dissident Legacies of Samizdat Social Media Activism Unlicensed Print Culture in Poland 1976-1990

By Piotr Wciślik Copyright 2021
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990. This unlicensed print culture has been seen as one of the most emblematic social worlds of dissent. Since the Cold War, the audacity of harnessing obsolete... Read more

Introduction: Dissident Imaginaries, Samizdat Social Media, and the Hirschman Question

Part 1: Introducing Samizdat Social Media

1. Imaginaries and Practices of Samizdat Social Media

2. The Fate of Free Word Depends on Ourselves. The Origins of Dissident Social Media Activism

Part 2: Solidarity Media Matters

3. Democracy as Oversight. The Trade Union and its Press

4. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Trade Union Press between Social Media and Surrogate Mass Media

5. Indivisible are the Principles which Orient our Actions. Trade Union Press in Proceedings of Solidarity’s First National Congress

Part 3: The Underground Society 

6. Dissident Social Media during and after the Martial Law

7. Political Economy of Unlicensed Publishing

Part 4: Lost in Transition

8. Crisis and Compromise

9. The Exceptional Moment of Dissident Politics

10. The Margin of Liberty

Conclusion

Biography

Piotr Wciślik is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the history of dissident political thought and dissident media, and is currently developing a data-driven approach in that area.

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