This article focuses on pro-refugee practices of Polish artists working in the fields of literature, theatre and music, in the context of the so-called "refugee crisis." On the one hand, these practices are ad hoc charity activities and, on the other, they are artistic expressions based on empathy and notions of shared responsibility. The category of cultural resistance (Barnard, Bleiker, Havel, Scott) constitutes the analytical framework. A review of the pro-refugee artists’ activities demonstrates the existence of a new discourse which counters the xenophobic narrative dominant in Poland since 2015.
Keywords: cultural resistance, refugees, art, Poland, cultural anthropology
10.25312/2451-2737.14/2019_04wk
Waldemar Kuligowski
walkul@amu.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-1034