Post‐socialism and the changing geographies of the everyday in Poland

Abstract

In reporting on recent research on the changing geographies of everyday life in the town of Nowa Huta in southern Poland, this paper seeks to promote the use of post‐socialism as a conceptual, rather than simply descriptive and/or transitory, category. By exploring experiences of (im)mobility and (in)security in post‐socialism, this paper connects to related work on the West and asks what difference post‐socialism makes. It concludes by presenting a post‐socialism marked out as different by the particular experiences of socialism, its construction and destruction and as a partial and hybrid social form, produced by a combination of multiple social forms constructed at varied scales of time and space.