[ecrea] New book: Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism. Ordinary Celebrations

New book: "Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism. Ordinary 
Celebrations" (Palgrave Macmillan).

The book is available with a 20% discount until Nov 12 when you order 
from the Palgrave website https://www.palgrave.com/9783319787343 and use 
the code PM18TWENTY4.

•• The book offers insights into the democratic transformation of Poland 
through examinations of the day-to-day lives of “ordinary people”
•• Contextualizes Polish examples with ‘Western cases to analyze the 
influence of the West on Polish cultural development since 1989
•• Holds value for scholars working in a range of disciplines including 
cultural sociology, political sociology, political science, social 
anthropology, transformation studies, religion, and culture and media 
studies, among other areas

Endorsements:
“The real contribution of the book is to show that the adaptation to new 
patterns of economy and society in daily life are syncretic, that they 
meld together elements of tradition and novelty in unpredictable and 
fascinating ways.”
—Michael Bernhard, Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in 
Political Science, University of Florida, USA

“Through three carefully executed case studies focused on Poland, 
demonstrating impressive empirical depth and theoretical sophistication, 
Chmielewska-Szlajfer helps to fill a lacuna in the field.”
—Jan Kubik, Professor of Slavonic and East European Studies, University 
College London, UK

“Chmielewska-Szlajfer’s story of an ‘ordinary people’s public sphere’ 
emerging throughout Poland is a superb and unusually optimistic 
intervention in contemporary discussions.”
—David Ost, Professor of Political Science,Hobart and William Smith 
Colleges, USA

Harnessing a cultural sociological approach to explore transformations 
in key social spheres in post-1989 Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer 
illuminates shifts in religiosity, sympathy towards others, and civic 
activity in post-Communist Poland in the light of the Western influence 
over elements on Polish life. Reshaping Poland’s Community after 
Communism focuses on three major cases, previously largely ignored in 
Polish scholarship: (1) a hugely popular, new faux-baroque Catholic 
shrine, which illustrates new strategies adopted by the Polish Catholic 
Church to attract believers; (2) Woodstock Station, a widely-known free 
charity music festival, demonstrating new practices of sympathy towards 
strangers; and (3) the emergence of national internet pro-voting 
campaigns and small-town watchdog websites, which uncover changes in 
practical uses of civic engagement. In exploring grass-roots, everyday 
negotiations of religiosity, charity, and civic engagement in 
contemporary Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer demonstrates how a country’s 
cultural changes can suggest wider, dramatic democratic transformation.


Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, PhD
LSE Department of Media and Communications Visiting Fellow
Assistant Professor, Kozminski University, Warsaw


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