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"Modernity, quality and aesthetics" of home appliances. Turning ideologies into material culture artefacts in late state socialist Poland (1970-1989)

2016/23/D/HS3/03199

Keywords:

material culture modernity technology ideology state-socialist Poland

Descriptors:

  • HS3_2: Social history
  • HS3_5: Cultural history (incl. historical memory, history of material culture, historical cultural studies, cultural diversity)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Patryk Wasiak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 3

Call: SONATA 12 - announced on 2016-09-15

Amount awarded: 392 976 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2017-07-07

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-07-06

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Zewnętrzny dysk twardy 2 TB (350 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (9)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (5)
  1. Modern home appliances, modern family and a good life. Discourses about modernity and gender roles in Polish households during the 1970s
    Authors:
    Katarzyna Stańczak- Wiślicz
    Academic press:
    Journal of Consumer Culture , Wydawca: SAGE
    Status:
    Submitted
  2. Die Debatte über den erzieherischen Wert von Computerspielen und die Ideologie des technologischen Fortschritts im sozialistischen Polen
    Authors:
    Patryk Wasiak
    Academic press:
    Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (rok: 2021, tom: 1, strony: 283-295), Wydawca: Metropol Verlag Berlin
    Status:
    Published
  3. EATING HEALTHY, EATING MODERN. THE URBANIZATION" OF FOOD TASTES IN COMMUNIST POLAND (1945–1989)
    Authors:
    Katarzyna Stańczak Wiślicz
    Academic press:
    Ethnologia Polona (rok: 2020, tom: 41, strony: 141-162), Wydawca: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.23858/ethp.2020.41.2303 - link to the publication
  4. Hot Commodity: designing, Making and Selling Electric Irons in post-war Poland
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Academic press:
    ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (rok: 2019, tom: 24, strony: 150-184), Wydawca: International Committee for the History of Technology
    Status:
    Published
  5. The Polish Amiga scene as a brand community
    Authors:
    Patryk Wasiak
    Academic press:
    WiderScreen (rok: 2020, tom: 45325, strony: 0), Wydawca: Filmiverkko ry
    Status:
    Published
  6. Designing educational and home computers in state socialism: the Polish and Czechoslovakian experience
    Authors:
    Patryk Wasiak Jaroslav Svelch
    Academic press:
    Journal of Design History , Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Submitted
  7. "The production of High-Fidelity audio electronics, and the politics of technological and social modernization in late state socialist Poland"
    Authors:
    Patryk Wasiak
    Academic press:
    Journal of Sonic Studies , Wydawca: SAGE
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  8. Deconstructing 'nowoczesna gospodyni.' The home efficiency movement, gender roles, and material culture in late state socialist Poland
    Authors:
    Patryk Wasiak, Katarzyna Stańczak Wiślicz
    Academic press:
    Slavic Review , Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  9. Practicing Modernity at Home. Expert Discourses and Women's Narratives on Household in Late Socialist Poland
    Authors:
    Katarzyna Stańczak Wiślicz
    Academic press:
    Gender & History , Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  1. VCRs, Modernity and Consumer Culture in Late State Socialist Poland
    Authors:
    Patryk Wasiak
    Book:
    Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe (rok: 2020, tom: 1, strony: 132-161), Wydawca: Indiana University Press
    Status:
    Published
  2. High-technology fairs in Germany and techno-scientific revolution in Polish media in the 1980s and 1990s
    Authors:
    Patryk Wasiak
    Book:
    Science Interconnected: German-Polish Scholarly Entanglements in Modern History, Ed. by Jan Surman (rok: 2022, tom: 1, strony: 267-280), Wydawca: Herder-Institut Verlag
    Status:
    Published
  3. -
    Authors:
    Mirosław Filiciak, Patryk Wasiak
    Book:
    Weź Pan Rambo! Społeczna historia magnetowidów w Polsce , Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Katedra
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
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    Authors:
    Patryk Wasiak
    Book:
    Technological innovation, modernity and electric goods in late state socialist Poland , Wydawca: Rowman&Littlefield/Lexington Books
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  5. Jak żyć w kryzysie? Strategie radzenia sobie z organizacją życia codziennego na łamach polskiej prasy lat osiemdziesiątych XX w.
    Authors:
    Katarzyna Stańczak Wiślicz
    Book:
    W kręgu kultury PRL. Poradnictwo (rok: 2018, tom: 1, strony: 245-257), Wydawca: Oddział Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej Komisji Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu w Poznaniu
    Status:
    Published