In the last 30 years the Gdansk Shipyard stood as an example of political mobilisation and change. In the course of time, it became a monument, in which the political protest and claims for social equality have been petrified and slowly forgotten. I would like to examine various forms of nostalgia that came to life within and after the political transformation and to see, how a rebirth of political agency in the contemporary precarious condition is mobilized in feminist and radical critical social theories dismantling the melancholic aesthetisation of ruins.

Ewa Majewska is Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Bronislaw Geremek Senior Visiting Fellow at the IWM.

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