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• Title:
  Life of Things from the Perspective of Polish Systemic Transformation
• Creator:
  Dopierała, Renata
• Contributor:
  University of Lodz, Poland;
  Renata Dopierała, PhD, works at the Department of Sociology of Culture, Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland. She is interested in sociology of everyday life (with the main focus on problems of privacy and intimacy) and anti-consumerism. Her current research project focuses on the phenomenon of anti-consumption lifestyles.;
  renata.dopierala@uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  The main purpose of the paper is to present the “biography” of selected things which appear in autobiographical narrative interviews conducted within the project “Experiencing the Systemic Transformation Process in Poland. A Sociological Comparison on the Basis of Biographical Analysis.” The author discusses different social actions connected with things, for example, the migrations of things, emancipation through things, collecting things, and reconstructs the stages of life of such things as: notebooks, cassette, and video tapes. The considerations are mainly embedded in the context of the People’s Republic of Poland and the process of transformation of the 1990s. The sociology and anthropology of things are theoretical frames of the analysis.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2019.11.22;
  2019
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Qualitative Sociology Review; 4;
  15
• Subject:
  Sociology and Anthropology of Things;
  Life of Things;
  People’s Republic of Poland;
  1989 Breakthrough
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/30877 ;
  1733-8077;
  10.18778/1733-8077.15.4.03
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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