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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology
Episode: Agnieszka Pasieka and PaweĹ Rodak, "Rethinking Modern Polish Identities: Transnational Encounters" (U Rochester Press, 2023)
Description: Anti-Semitic or philo-Semitic? Backward or modern? Locally rooted or diasporic? âPolishnessâ is too often flattened to an oversimplified list of either-or propositions. But a critical look at the multiple, contradictory versions of âPolishnessâ circulating in the modern era helps us to make sense not only of Polandâs past and present, but of a whole host of global problems: from the failures of multiculturalism, to the mutual misunderstandings of different communities claiming the same identity, to the insidious prejudice sometimes lurking within egalitarian projects. Conceived and curated as a collaborative encounter by anthropologist Agnieszka Pasieka and historian PaweĹ Rodak...