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- ISBN 9789048574278
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 May 2026
- Publisher: Pallas Publications
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Hardback
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Notes from the EU's Eastern Edge is a bold, singular book—auto-ethnography with analytic bite, theoretically literate without scholasticism, and ethically self-aware. It shows how Kremlin “migration engineering” met a ready-made European script of fear, pride, and denial along the Belarus-Poland frontier. It traces how memory politics and securitized compassion turn migrants into symbols in border forests, as well as in newsrooms, museums, and classrooms, while bilingual gatekeepers launder hard edges into “responsible” discourse. The book’s core contribution is to shift Polish-populism studies from monist typologies to a processual account of a dialectical, polycentric regime of managed antagonisms, refusing the easy pejorative of “populism” and retaining an emancipatory horizon. Vivid reportage sits with compact documentary mini-cases to show how trauma, sovereignty and solidarity are being rewritten at Europe’s edge. Definitive for debates on borders, memory and the political unconscious in Central Europe.
Jo Harper is a British journalist based in Warsaw, freelancing for various international agencies. He also teaches at the American Studies Center, part of Warsaw University and holds a PhD from the London school of Economics. He has written three books on Polish politics, also published into Polish and German.
