Abstrakt: | Our symbolic universe is composed of a network of senses
responsible for the plurality and configuration of meanings.
If in a public discourse, but also in a conversational
one, we tackle issues of mining, coal and mines, then at
the level of denotations the Silesian Voivodship (or even
Upper Silesia) is brought to mind. A reverse process can be
expected when we evoke associations related to Silesianity
– perhaps in this case Szczepan Twardoch, Kazimierz Kutz
and Spodek stadium come to mind first, but then one
of further connotations will lead us to coal, mines and
miners. Using these cultural resources and sociological
research focused on the experience of the restructured
Silesian region and filtered through the category of gender,
I would like – drawing on the knowledge embedded
in a female subject – to propose a few reconfigurations of
meanings in this network of senses. Eco-feministic criticism
of petroculture serves as a theoretic basis, whereas
selected research of the experiences of women in the
restructured region is an empiric inspiration. |