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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Suburbanization of the Self: Religious Revival and SocioSpatial Fragmentation in Contemporary Poland
Contributor:
Pobłocki, Kacper
imprint:
Wiley, 2021
Published in:International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/1468-2427.12947
ISSN:
1468-2427;
0309-1317
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In this article, I trace the elective affinity between planetary suburbanization and emergent forms of radical religiosity. I show how the centuries‐long spatial hegemony of the Catholic Church in Poland has recently been undermined by the ‘fundamentalist' broadcaster <jats:italic>Radio Maryja</jats:italic>—the bellwether of the Polish right‐wing nationalist resurgence. I describe the twentieth‐century suburbanization of both the state and Catholicism in Poland, supported by an analysis of a village‐cum‐suburb in one of Poland's largest agglomerations. I show how the latest wave of suburbanization, triggered by Poland's opening up to global flows of capital in 2004, ran parallel to the emergence of a ‘post‐secular', ‘individual' and ‘intellectual' strain of faith. I tie these in with the life stories and changes in gender and labour regimes of two key informants. I also show that the surge of right‐wing nationalism should not be understood as a backlash against neoliberalization, but that it represents instead a project of regime change and new elite formation.</jats:p>