Concept of "popular citizenship" as theoretical framework of studies of popular culture in socialist and post-socialist society
2010
Abstract
The article deals with the concept of "popular citizenship" and attempts to transpose it into the context of uses of socialist popular culture in an authoritarian society - although it has been usually employed to study the ways of countering hegemony in formaly democratic societies. It explores up to what extent is the concept of "popular citizenship" aplicable to the study of anticipated hermeneutic agency in authoritarian society (in the case of socialist Czechoslovakia and the television serials of the period).