Klasa i tożsamość. Różnice etniczne i socjoekonomiczne wykluczenie w budowaniu wspólnoty
Class and Identity. Ethnic Differences and Socioeconomic Exclusion in Community Building

Summary/Abstract: In the text, the author, analyzing the processes of alienation and exclusion of residents of a fragment of a gentrified neighborhood, considers what role class and race play in this process. In addition to economic and class exclusion, the key terms for the author are alienation (othering) and racialization (racialization), together they set the conceptual framework for the analysis. Based on six months of ethnographic research, the author confronts perceptions about the ghetto with the relations found inside. He describes the formation of a local identity based on shared exclusion and opposition to denunciation and cooperation with state officials. Analyzing the role of local identity juxtaposed with Polishness and Romaniness, the author shows how these imagined communities are negotiated and how their role changes depending on the contexts. Following Marianne Gullestad, the author considers the influence of strongly rhetorical terms, e.g. Gypsy, Roma, on the processes analyzed. At the same time, he recognizes secondary exclusion resulting from targeting aid programs along ethnic lines rather than on the basis of community needs. The text also presents examples of positive, partly grassroots, actions to reduce the scale of exclusion, which include the problem of inadequate redistribution to local conditions.

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