CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Walaszkowski, Patryk |
|---|---|
| Title | Culture, Power, Resistance. Counterstrategies in Polish and Hungarian Theater after illiberal turn |
| Summary | This thesis explores the implementation of the new cultural policy introduced by illiberal governments of Hungary and Poland, and the reactions of theater professional towards the organizational and financial changes. In spite of a large number of existing studies which compare policies of post-2010 Hungary and post-2015 Poland, the relations between the field of state power and hegemony, and the field of theater production, have not yet been an object of comparison. The primary goals of the thesis are: firstly, an analysis of the governments’ understanding of the role of theater production. And secondly, the exploration of the responses of the theater artists to the new situation, which are understood as counterstrategies. In the thesis I show how the nationalist drift of Polish and Hungarian governments cultural policies creates new elites, whose role is to ensure the reproduction of hegemony. By examining theater institutions such as Krétakör, Trafó, The Polish Theater in Wroclaw and National Old Theater) I also illustrate strategies of negotiation, protest, institutionalization, and survival. I argue that while in Hungary those strategies were mostly unsuccessful, in Poland institutionalization and self-organization led to a rise of the counterpublic. |
| Supervisor | Kowalski, Alexandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/walaszkowski_patryk.pdf |
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