2022/11/16 by Michał Sobczak · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #European history and politics #Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies #Law in Society and Culture
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s12142-022-00671-3
openalex publication_date 2022/11/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Abstract In this paper, I analysed the events of 7th August 2020 in Warsaw, when 48 people were detained by the Polish police who brutally raided solidarity demonstration with non-binary activist Margot Szutowicz. The aim of the paper is to explore queer activism in Poland on microsociological level using Gabriel Tarde imitation theory. I tried to show how individual experience of resistance gave rise to new, innovative forms of activism which became a social phenomenon. In my research, I used in-depth interviews with some of detainees and over 180 diaries/memoirs of Polish LGBTQIA people.