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‘Mea culpa’: the social production of public disclosure and reconciliation
It can be sensibly argued that transformations of social, political and moral
frameworks for constructing personal and political subjectivities have been taking
place in a variety of forms and with different effects across a range of Eastern
European contexts. In order to understand and describe individual experiences of
social change researchers have usually been engaged in documenting the nature of
these particular transformations of social, political and moral frameworks for
constructing personal and political subjectivities. Although this is a very important
research goal in its own right, it may not tell the whole story. Some questions still
remain: How are these social, political and moral frameworks constructed by
members of society through the use of various cultural and discursive resources to
make sense of themselves and others? How are personal and political subjectivities
actually constructed and reproduced, assumed or contested?
The transition from communism to democracy has been a period when possibilities of
constructing and affirming (alternative) personal and political subjectivities/identities
have been innumerable. At the same time, this period has also been one of reevaluating
and re-affirming personal/political biographies from under the sway of the
Communist and post-communist recent past. This chapter is an attempt to capture
individual experiences of social change through an example of ‘re-acquisition of
biography’ (Miller, 1999) and reconciliation with the past ....
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Citation
TILEAGA, C., 2009. ‘Mea culpa’: the social production of public disclosure and reconciliation. IN: Galasinska, A. and Krzyzanowski, M. (eds.). Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 173-187.Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan (Editorial selection and matter © A. Galasinska and M. Krzyzanowski; chapters © their individual authors)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2009Notes
This chapter was accepted for publication in the book Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe and was reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN
9780230521025;0230521029Language
- en