ABSTRACT

In the recent decade Polish universities have undergone a series of reforms limiting their independence from the state. This provoked protests from the humanities faculty and led to establishing organizations that actively opposed the reform. The purpose of this paper is to present a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of press articles describing a process of organizing resistance to the reform of the higher education and science system in Poland. The ‘revolt of the humanities’ is examined in the perspective of Bob Jessop’s theory of social crises. The outcome of the study is a description of the discursive reduction of the complexity of political actors’ demands. The result of complexity reduction was creation of a better organized and more politically effective forms of opposition to the reform agenda.

摘要

近十年来，波兰大学经历了一系列限制其独立于国家的改革。这引起了人文学院的抗议，并导致成立了积极反对改革的组织。本文的目的是对新闻文章进行批判性话语分析（CDA），描述组织抵制波兰高等教育和科学体系改革的过程。从鲍勃·杰索普的社会危机理论的角度考察了“人文学科的反抗”。研究的结果是对政治行为者需求复杂性的话语减少的描述。复杂性降低的结果是形成了一种更有组织性和政治上更有效的反对改革议程的形式。