ABSTRACT
Based on an analysis of biographical narrative interviews collected within the framework of three research projects (one focused on precarious workers and two others focused on right-wing activists and supporters), the chapter explores the relationship between the life experiences of young people and their ways of narrating the post-1989 system transformation in Poland, with a particular focus on socio-economic changes driven by neoliberal ideologies. It argues that regardless of the level of the narrators’ political involvement, they rarely situated their biographical experiences within the context of larger socio-historical processes. Simultaneously, young right-wing activists and supporters presented a stronger tendency to refer to accessible, ready-made ideological patterns for reinterpreting the socio-economic and political transformation as a ‘fabricated’ change from which only the liberal elites benefited.
