![]() ![]() ![]() Our intervention is crucially to argue that contemporary ideas of Polishness and otherness might be understood in terms of a triple relation: Poland as former colony, as former coloniser and finally in relation to the western hegemons. In this article we offer a reading of everyday understandings of diversity in Poland using postcolonial theory. Yet there are limitations in this literature, particularly among those who offer a ‘comparative empires’ reading of postcolonial and postsocialist spaces. But what of those postsocialist states to the west of the ‘East’ and the east of the ‘West’? Former Soviet ‘colonies’ experiencing new western imperialisms at the same time as adjusting to their ‘transition’ to capitalism? Postcolonial theory has much to offer to social and cultural studies of postsocialist spaces and a growing number of scholars in Eastern Europe have been arguing as much in recent years, particularly in Poland ( Carey and Raciborski, 2004 Cavanagh, 2004 Deltecheva, 1998 Janion, 2006 Kania, 2009 Kuus, 2004 Owczarzak, 2009 Pickles, 2005 Skórczewski, 2006, 2009 Todorova, 1997 Zarycki, 2011). This is unsurprising, as much of the world is in this sense ‘postcolonial’. Postcolonial theory has tended to focus on those spaces where European colonialism has had a territorial and political history. ![]()
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