Series:Uniwersytet Łódzki

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The Implementation of Social Innovations by Rural NGOs and Local Action Groups

Wdrażanie innowacji społecznych przez wiejskie organizacje pozarządowe i lokalne grupy działania

Author(s): Katarzyna Zajda / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: non-govermental organisations; local action groups; rural areas; social innovations; enabling factors

The issue of implementing social innovations arouses the interest of researchers and practitioners from around the world. However, it has rarely been undertaken in Poland, especially in the context of the specificity of rural areas and organisations such as non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and local action groups (LAGs), which are important for solving the social problems of its inhabitants. The subject of consideration in this monograph revolves around the activities of NGOs and LAGs focused on the implementation of social innovations defined as changes in the area of solving social problems, which consist of the emergence of unusual social practices that are alternative to those prevailing in a given area (i.e. in the area of a rural commune or territorial partnership). The aims of this analysis were as follows: First, to determine the specificity of social innovations implemented in rural communes (gminas) by NGOs and LAGs. Second, to identify factors enabing the implementation of these innovations from variables like cooperation with various local organisations and institutions and those located outside the area of a given rural commune (or territorial partnership) and involvement of residents in solving social problems affecting them. In the case of NGOs, amongst these enabling factors, the length of their activities and the level of human and financial resources at their disposal were also considered. The effects of qualitative and quantitative analyses were presented. The methods of case study and survey were used. Conclusions of the study have been drawn on the basis of the results regarding the specifics of the implementation of social innovations by rural NGOs and LAGs. Thus, recommendations for supporting the stimulation of this process have also been made.

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Communicating for Security

Komunikowanie dla bezpieczeństwa

Author(s): Katarzyna Ewa Derlatka / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: warning; crisis management; security; communication; disinformation

Communication seems to be such an obvious need and function of life, that it ceases to be perceived as a powerful force influencing behavior, human attitudes, events, and is one of the bases for guaranteeing security. The ability and skill to communicate through the meanderings of time has taught the next generations how to live, how to protect themselves, how to achieve the basic human need of safety. The tam-tams, smoke signs or bells once used were meant to warn and transmit simple messages to keep groups safe. Today there are many communication tools that need to be considered in communication strategies and procedures for security. A contemporary problem in the global communication system is the multidimensionality of information. We can call this phenomenon hybridization of information, which is not only the transmission of the content itself, but has different purposes, contains different tools, is a commodity, a weapon, a strategic resource of any security entity. Information as a hybrid can be seen in five aspects - as information in crisis management, information fulfilling media functions, information as a weapon, information as a tool of influence, and information as a tool of prevention. The intentions of the creator of the information and the sender determine whether the information is a threat or not. The aim of this book is to make readers aware of how much depends on communication, proper transmission of information, understanding it by the audience, but also correct preparation of the message, so that it is not falsified, incomprehensible, and finally unnecessary, because it will not meet the sender's objectives. Communication for our common security is a priority.

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Prisoners' Parents. A study of experiences

Rodzice więźniów. Studium doświadczeń

Author(s): Angelika Cieślikowska-Ryczko / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: biographical research; prisoner families; parenting crisis; rehabilitation and social readaptation

This monograph is a sociopedagogical study of the experience of parents of prisoners. In analyzing the issue of family crisis in prison, I looked at the perspective of fathers and mothers of incarcerated sons. In my analysis I used the biographical method, as proposed by such researchers as Fritz Schütze or Tom Wengraf. The main aim of this study was to identify the ways in which the subjects define their own life experiences. I was interested in the process of assigning meanings to various life events. Within the obtained narrations I recognized remedial and adaptation strategies undertaken by parents of prisoners. The results of the analysis allow me to answer the question: how do family members cope with the experience of imprisonment and how do they construct their own identity in the face of this event? The study consists of three main parts. Part I is a theoretical and methodological introduction to the research context. Part II is the author's study of the problem (description of the results of the analyses devoted directly to the experiences of the parents of prisoners). Part III is a kind of summary of methodological dilemmas and the process of conducting interviews.

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Culture of the Reformation and reforming of culture

Kultura reformacji i reformowanie w kulturze

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Marcin Luter; kontrreformacja; Julia Hartwig; kalwinizm; luteranizm; Oświecenie; reformacja; protestantyzm

Już od czasów Maxa Webera w refleksji naukowej i filozoficznej pojawiała się myśl, że reformacja to nie tylko zjawisko historyczne, ale nade wszystko społeczno-kulturowe. Kojarzą się z nią m.in.: indywidualizm, doświadczeniowość, nowoczesność, innowacja, aktywizm, asceza w świecie, kreatywność, samorefleksja, komunitarianizm, oszczędność, rozwój rachunkowości, krytycyzm, kapitalizm, kultura pisma i druku, odczarowanie, sekularyzacja. To jedynie kilka przykładów zjawisk i wartości wiążących się nierozłącznie z szeroko rozumianą reformacją w kulturze. Samo istnienie reformacji owocuje historycznie pojęciem tolerancji i szacunku dla różnorodności, choć droga do tych wartości nie jest łatwa i bezbolesna.W dniach 22–24 maja 2017 roku odbyła się w Uniwersytecie Łódzkim i Akademii Muzycznej im. Bacewiczów w Łodzi interdyscyplinarna konferencja ze specjalnymi gośćmi z całego świata. W Łodzi obradowali m.in.: Rita Süssmuth (Niemcy), prof. Ian Hazlett (Glasgow, Szkocja), prof. lnes Murzaku (New Jersey, USA), prof. Ivo Pospíšil (Brno, Czechy), prof. Cora Dietl (Giessen, Niemcy), prof. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg (Giessen, Niemcy).Tom zbiera wybrane aspekty kultury reformacji i reformowania w kulturze. Jest śladem tego, że wielokulturowa Łódź uczciła 500 lat reformacji, która przez dziesięciolecia odcisnęła także swój znaczący ślad w tym mieście.

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From geographical sciences towards geoinformation science

Od nauk geograficznych w kierunku nauki o geoinformacji

Author(s): Iwona Jażdżewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Geoinformation science; GIScience; geographical sciences; philosophy of science; geoinformation science in Poland

For several decades there has been functioning in the world science the term GIScience, among Polish researchers it appeared as the science of geoinformation. The publication recalls some of the most important philosophical concepts relevant to geographical sciences and geoinformation science. Many of them appeared before the first half of the twentieth century, i.e. in the time before the "digital and Internet revolution", therefore the discussion on the science of geoinformation takes into account the new challenges facing science and the new paradigms that are associated with it. These are closely related to the new technologies used in scientific research and the explosive growth of data. For this reason, aspects of the philosophy of science and technology are included in the publication. In the context of the division of geography into sub-disciplines, considerations on the short history of the development of geoinformation science in Poland from the scientific, didactic and organisational point of view are presented. They lead to the conclusion that it has a close relationship with geographical sciences and other disciplines and belongs to the group of disciplines understood as multi-, inter- or transdisciplinary sciences. This may mean that it is not possible to define for it a single pattern of rational research conduct, accepted by the majority of its representatives. Its development in historical, social, technical and political and spatial contexts has been and continues to be highly diverse. This causes some difficulties in discussing its development. However, it can be said that at the end of the second decade of the 21st century, the academic community representing GIScience worldwide appears as a group of scientists aware of its scientific potential. Among them are researchers from Poland who, within the framework of geographical sciences, start a conversation about the possibilities of developing geoinformation science in Poland.

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Tuwim. A Rupture

Tuwim. Pęknięcie

Author(s): Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Julian Tuwim; Polish poetry; fate; imagination; Polish Jews; citizen

The monograph is about Julian Tuwim (1894-1953), a prominent poet, a creator of excellent poems for children, and a Polish Jew. The book is divided into three essential parts titled: childlike imagination, Jewishness of fate, civic (dis)obedience. It is a novel attempt in reading Tuwim that is different from the previous interpretations, and a very explicit renewal of his presence in the awareness and the collective imagination of Polish culture. The thought that the poet - a bibliophile, a translator, a curiosity collector, an author of cabaret texts and “a believer in the word” as he called himself - was an author who had experienced tragic fate and had struggled with it bravely in his poetry is the guiding thread of the book. The title of the study also refers to Tuwim’s illness and his death, to the topic of rupture in his poetry and to his dramatic fate as a Polish Jew. The part of the book dedicated to Tuwim’s predilection for Jesus Christ and Frederic Chopin is an anacrusis. Among the issues brought up here afresh - although already existing in the source literature - are the revolutionary take in the context of Rimbaud’s reception, the re-reading of the poet as the one who writes as a child, the parts about cities, the attempt to interpret the manifesto My, Żydzi Polscy [We, Polish Jews]. The book is enriched by unpublished until now passages of hand-written notes made by the poet’s sister, Irena Tuwim - also a poet and a known translator - and by other sources unused in previous monographs.

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Woman - a space of conflict and a battlefield. Essays on political anthropology

Kobieta – przestrzeń konfliktu, pole walk. Szkice z antropologii politycznej

Author(s): Inga B. Kuźma,Edyta B. Pietrzak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Herstory; politics of memory; counter-memory; feminism; political anthropology

The book is a result of work in projects in the fields of civic education, herstory and politics of remembrance, dedicated to the participation of women in armed conflicts and the issue of commemoration and the political use of their symbolic potential. Herstory is about working with minority memory, with stories that are 'not told', it is about working with the multiplicity of narratives that review themselves. That is why herstorical thinking is flexible and allows for the use of art or animation activities that help to bring out what is silenced. The authors try to fit into the methodological framework of hermeneutic reflection, where it is only in dialogue that silence and the inability to give form to what has hitherto been silenced is revealed. They refer to memoirs, autobiographical and biographical statements, testimonies, political texts, legal texts or "secular hagiographies" created from the bottom up. Their field of interest also includes social processes and collective memory and forms of social mentality. They draw on the resources of a political anthropology interested in collective identities, cultural narratives, the meaning and interpretation of symbols, constructing metaphors, images and topos. They are guided by the idea that memory is political, and that how we think about it, speak about it and create it, is a political issue, manifested in the cultural texts and practices of which herstory is an example, and which constitute the mobilizing legitimation of collective visions of community.

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Reading „Ulysses". An attempt at interpretation

Czytanie Ulissesa. Próba interpretacji

Author(s): Marek Rosiak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Literature; philosophy; hermeneutics; contemporaneity

I have tried to apply analytical tools supplied by philosophy and logic to reveal or perhaps - to some extent - even create a consistent account of Joyce’s masterpiece. “Ulysses” contains no determinate meaning, even in a cryptic form – its author intention was rather to incline a patient reader to interpret the text and in this way to co-create its meaning. It is a demanding enterprise, not only because of the size of the book and often an opaque style of Joyce’s writing but also because he often seems to suggest certain paths of interpretation leading astray. For example, in spite of many openly blasphemous fragments the book contains some nontrivial theological threads. Its composition reveal certain logical order akin to a musical composition although at first glance it could remind a kind of a pathwork and so on. The epoch of radical social changes resulting in the Great War surely influenced the content of the novel.

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The Aesthetics of Agency in Video Games

Estetyka sprawczości w grach wideo

Author(s): Marcin M. Chojnacki / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: agency; aesthetics; video games; interactivity; user experience

The aim of this book is to indicate and characterize the relationship between the phenomenon of agency and the aesthetics of the video game medium. The author analyzes the properties of interactive texts that allow their users to feel the pleasure of influencing the virtual spaces or the course of events taking place within them. Therefore, the book has been divided into two parts: theoretical, which organizes the existing definitions and types of agency typical for video games, and analytical, that presents a layered model of agency. Author presents four levels that organize player experience: simulation, narration, rules, and meta-agency, which gathers numerous activities beyond gameplay. The following chapters explore issues such as: reception and transformation of the gameplay aesthetics, user experience and emotions, differentiation of player’s agency, interface functions, agency mechanics, and agential dissonance. The book also contains extensive analyzes of three high-budget mainstream games: “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” (Nintendo, 2017), “Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” (CD Projekt RED, 2015) with “Blood and wine” expansion (CD Projekt RED, 2016) and “Grand Theft Auto V” (RockStar Games, 2013).

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Price effects on Polish capital market

Efekty cenowe na polskim rynku kapitałowym

Author(s): Magdalena Jasiniak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: capital market; price effects; low price anomaly; behavioural finance; capital market anomalies; determinants of investors’ decisions

The aim of the study is to assess the perception of stocks’ investment attractiveness through the prism of their market prices from the investors’ perspective and the verification of pricing effects on the Polish capital market. On the Polish capital market, research on price effects are uncommon, although the area of ​​behavioral finance and market anomalies seems to be quite widely explored. This study complements the research gap in this area. The results of research conducted on foreign capital markets describe the occurrence of various price phenomena, which indicates the existence of a relationship between the stocks market price and investors’ investment decisions which in consequence may translate into the formation of the rate of return of these stocks. In the case of the Polish capital market, it also stated that there is a relationship between the stock price and the return rates generated. It also indicates that the calendar anomalies known in the literature occur with various intensification, depending on the price range of stocks. In addition, it was noted that investors' reactions on split and resplit operations are different depending on the stock price before the event and the coefficient of split or resplit. Research carried out among individual investors has shown that the stock price is the most important factor in the decision-making process and according to respondents, it is about their investment attractiveness. In investors' opinion, the chances of achieving above-average returns are growing along with the stock price.

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Wage differentiation in Voivodeships and its impact on total factor productivity

Zróżnicowanie płac w województwach i jego wpływ na łączną produktywność czynników produkcji

Author(s): Damian Mowczan / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Gini coefficient; TFP; regional analyzes; optimal wage differentiation; panel data

The aim of this paper is to estimate the impact of wage inequality on the level of total factor productivity (TFP). For many years, researchers have been discussing what the level of income or wage inequality should be. There is no unequivocal answer to this question, as the terms 'fairness' and 'efficiency' can be defined differently. This paper reviews research and concepts related to the impact of wage and income dispersion on the economic level and economic growth. The methods of measuring inequality and their relationship with human and social capital were also characterised. For the empirical portion, it was hypothesised that for each Voivodeship, there is an optimal wage differentiation that maximizes the level of TFP. It was also assumed that this differentiation significantly fluctuates between Voivodeships. The results of the econometric analyses of the production function seem to positively verify the hypothesis. Economics and finance

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Efficiency of financialization in the Member States of the European Union

Efektywność finansjalizacji państw członkowskich Unii Europejskiej

Author(s): Tomasz Florczak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: financialization; banking sector; DEA; efficiency

The subject of the study was financialization of the banking sectors of 28 European Union Member States. Financialization was defined as a long-lasting process, characterized by increase in the banking sector and its impact on the real sphere of the economy. The research includes variables describing the banking sector and the real sphere of the economy. The subjective scope of research on financialization included the Member States of the European Union and their banking sectors. The time scope of the research covered the period from 2008 to 2018. The main goal of the monograph was to present and assess the effectiveness of financialization the European Union Member States and their banking sectors using non -parametric methods: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist index. The study verified the main hypothesis that financialization understood as an increase in the banking sector negatively affects the economic growth of the European Union Member States in the period 2008–2018.

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Methodological reconstruction of knowledge creation conditions – selected problems

Metodologiczna rekonstrukcja warunków tworzenia wiedzy – wybrane zagadnienia

Author(s): Danuta Urbaniak-Zając,Jacek Piekarski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: empirical research methodology; scientific criticism; research method

The publication explores methodological questions concerning the creation of knowledge in pedagogy as a discipline rooted in social sciences and humanities, assuming critical reconstruction of the research process as a factor determining the quality of all research practices and considered both as a source condition and a substrate of methodological research. The first part of the publication offers a general characterisation of the perspective adopted by the author. It discusses problems concerning the status of decisions related to the choice of research methods, the issue of presence of the researcher in the research practice, and reflects upon the conditions and possibilities of formulating critical statements in educational sciences. It presents different modalities of understanding criticism, and explores the possibilities of practising “critical methodology” designed as a study of methods of scientific practice criticism in a changing cultural framework. In this part, the various models of criticism are reconstructed (dogmatism, conventionalism, and tactical discretion), as well as the cultural patterns emerging on their basis (inhibition, tolerantism, and presentism). In the second part, the “participatory research perspective” is reconstructed as a perspective related to the “meaningful presence” of the researcher in the research practice. A characterisation of participation as a result of “status mediation” associated with taking the perspective of observer, witness, and causal subject is suggested and the accompanying dilemmas with the related consequences for the construction of a methodological perspective are explored. An example of the use of the outlined proposals is self-description of research activity. The third part provides examples of critical reconstructions of the diverse practices that constitute the research workshop used in the process of empirical research.

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The Family Saga in 21st Century Polish Literature. Convention or Contestation

Saga rodzinna w literaturze polskiej XXI wieku. Konwencja czy kontestacja?

Author(s): Anna Zatora / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: family saga; family novel; conventional saga; contestation saga; women’s literature; anti-saga

This publication redefines the family saga genre, confronting recent literary representations with the model of the traditional family novel, and explores the relationship between the evolution of the genre and transformations in the family model. Academic definitions of family saga (family novel) to date are inadequate to describe recent literary material, i.e., family-themed novels written in the early twenty-first century. Selected Polish literary works written between 2005 and 2015 were analyzed: Piaskowa Góra (Joanna Bator), Saturn (Jacek Dehnel), Stulecie Winnych (trilogy; Ałbena Grabowska), Dom na rozlewiskiem (trilogy; Małgorzata Kalicińska), Rodzina O. (Ewa Madeyska), Chochoły (Wit Szostak), Włoskie szpilki and Szum (Magdalena Tulli). This research points to two ways in which the genre has evolved: the first is a continuation of the traditional model of the family saga, and the literary representations belonging to it (conventional sagas) remain faithful to the model of the family developed at the time and reproduce most of the poetic elements; the second way in which the saga has evolved includes works (contestation sagas) that draw on the genological tradition but at the same time critically reinterpret it. In conclusion, it is proposed to introduce for such representations of family sagas the term "anti-saga" hitherto unfunctional in scientific discourse. The analysis of the literary material allows us to demonstrate a significant relationship between the development of cultural research and the evolution of the family model and the genre of the family saga.

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Financial analysis of the occurrence of damages relating to patients based on judgments of the courts of Łódź district

Finansowa analiza występowania szkód dotyczących pacjentów na podstawie wyroków sądów okręgu łódzkiego

Author(s): Daria Korytkowska Piaskowska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Adverse Events; Civil Liability Insurance; Damage; Medical error; Claims; Compensation

One of the most important problems that hospitals and healthcare entities struggle with is the problem of adverse events, causing damage to patients. Such damages result in various legal, medical, system, personal, social, and financial repercussions. Since this problem is quite well explored from the point of view of legal liability of healthcare entities for damage to a patient in connection with medical services, as well as from a risk management point of view, the objective of this monograph is to investigate the financial consequences. For this purpose the evaluation was made of the damages asserted and adjudicated as a result of claims for damage caused to patients in hospitals. An additional objective was also to check whether the compulsory third-party insurance of the entities offering medical services guarantees financial security to them. To this end, an analysis was carried out of selected case files related to damages to patients treated in hospitals in Poland, filed in registries of the Regional Court in Łódź in the years 2005-2011, on the basis of which the following were established: the types of adverse events that most often result in claims for compensation and their financial repercussions. What is more, it was verified to what extent these claims were satisfied in court judgments, allowing the claims partially or entirely. As a result of the research carried out, it was determined, among others, that damages to patients generate high compensation claims which are most often related to such adverse events as hospital-acquired infection, medical errors, or medical negligence, while the biggest indemnity component is compensation.

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Supply logistics. Academic textbook. Part 1 Lecture

Logistyka zaopatrzenia. Skrypt akademicki. Część 1 Wykład

Author(s): Małgorzata Matusiak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Supply logistics; supply sources; material requirements planning; enterprise resources planning

The textbook contains content related to the acquisition of goods necessary for an enterprise's day-to-day running. The supply processes for enterprises are currently very complex. The short life cycle of many products and the need to keep costs to a minimum make the procurement process very difficult. Identifying needs, selecting suppliers, negotiating purchase conditions, and choosing the type of transport, as well as the costs of procurement and creating and maintaining inventories, are numerous elements that make up the procurement process. The efficiency of the procurement process guarantees that the company will be competitive in the market. Savings and errors made at the initial stage of the procurement process affect the subsequent stages of production and service provision. In order to balance the supply and demand of a company's products, a large amount of information from different sources needs to be analyzed. For this analysis, well-qualified staff with high analytical competencies are necessary. They have tools such as IT systems to support material requirements planning and planning other enterprise resources.

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The European Union in the Process of Sustainable Development in the Conditions of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Unia Europejska w procesie zrównoważonego rozwoju w warunkach pandemii COVID-19

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: European Union; Globalisation; circular economy; digitisation; international trade; capital movements; migrations

W monografii p.t. Unia Europejska w Gospodarce światowej zaprezentowane zostały wyniki analizy i oceny pozycji Unii Europejskiej (UE) we współczesnej gospodarce światowej w kontekście dynamicznych zmian zachodzących w procesach globalizacji i międzynarodowej integracji gospodarczej. Gospodarka światowa definiowana jest tu jako system trwałych powiązań ekonomicznych, włączających gospodarki narodowe poszczególnych krajów w procesy produkcji i wymiany o zasięgu globalnym. W ostatnim 20-leciu należy podkreślić szczególnie silną pozycję UE we współczesnym świecie z punktu widzenia wspierania przez nią koncepcji zrównoważonego rozwoju, a także jej roli jako prekursora we wdrażaniu Agendy Organizacji Narodów Zjednoczonych 2030. Komisja Europejska, jako główny organ wykonawczy UE promuje rozwój ukierunkowany na zwiększenie wykorzystania technologii niskoemisyjnych i źródeł czystej energii oraz aktualizuje przepisy, aby ułatwić niezbędne inwestycje prywatne i publiczne w tych dziedzinach. Jest to bowiem korzystne nie tylko dla planety jako całości, lecz również dla poszczególnych gospodarek oraz konsumentów. Idea zrównoważonego rozwoju stała się punktem wyjścia na drodze do gospodarki cyrkularnej, jako tej koncepcji, która odchodzi od dotychczasowego modelu gospodarczego, opierającego się na stałym wzroście i czerpie z wzorca rozwoju, w ramach którego nic się nie marnuje, a odpady, jeśli powstają, są wykorzystywane jako surowiec.

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Score in the wind. The Parisian Culture concepts and the Polish eastern policy 1989-2014

Partytura na wietrze. Koncepcje paryskiej Kultury a polska polityka wschodnia w latach 1989-2014

Author(s): Marcin Frenkel / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Polish eastern policy; Giedroyc; Mieroszewski; ULB; Parisian Culture; Giedroyc Doctrine; Eastern Europe

The book attempts to analyze the influence of the Parisian "Culture" magazine's (in Polish: Kultura) concepts on the Polish eastern policy from 1989 to 2014. "Kultura" was established in 1946 in Rome and soon after moved to Maisons-Laffitte, a small town in the suburbs of Paris. This magazine became the most influential Polish independent "think-tank" during the cold war era. This small group of intellectuals in exile, led by Jerzy Giedroyc, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, created a strategy - so-called "The Giedroyc Doctrine" - that later became a road map for all the successive Polish governments after the fall of communism in 1989. The "Giedroyc Doctrine" can be summarized in four crucial points: I ) supporting the independence and democratization of Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus (ULB) and preserving post-war border lines in Europe; 2) counteracting soviet/Russian imperialism, ceasing Polish-Russian rivalry for ULB territories and creating good relations with Russian liberal/democratic parties and civic movements; 3) consolidating and rebuilding of good relations with Germany; 4) integrating Poland with political, economic and military organizations of the Euro-Atlantic world. It should be underlined that Russia has been the central point of reference for the whole idea. Recognition of the above points should neutralize the threat from Russian imperialism and build a solid foundation for Poland's future security. Analyzing the eastern policy of successive Polish governments in terms of continuing or departing from the concept of "Kultura", the author refers to the above-mentioned key postulates. The research results presented in the book prove that at the given time, all subsequent Polish governments took into account and accepted the "Giedroyc doctrine". Moreover, it should be stated that throughout the first twenty-five years of the Third Republic of Poland, its foreign policy was characterized by a high degree of continuity and attachment to the idea of the Parisian "Kultura". And this policy was the subject of cross-partisan consensus. On the other hand, at the detailed (tactical) level - going beyond the general concept of foreign policy - there were certain misunderstandings of Giedroyc's doctrine

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Analyses and forecasts of polish labour market. Cross-section of occupations groups

Analizy i prognozy polskiego rynku pracy. Przekrój grup zawodowych

Author(s): Artur Gajdos,Karolina Lewandowska-Gwarda / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: labour market; number of employees; occupations groups; forecasts

Analyses and forecasts of changes in the occupational structure of employees are an extremely important element of the labour market research. They provide information about the future demand of work in specific occupations, which enables the intensification of adjustment processes of the labour market in the changing socio-economic reality. Appropriate qualification and professional matching of jobseekers and job vacancies leads to a more effective use of production factors and, consequently, to an increase in their productivity. It is also a determinant of wage growth, while satisfying the professional aspirations of working people. In the macroeconomic perspective, it affects economic development, the level of unemployment and the state of the government budget. This monograph presents the theoretical basis for forecasting changes of the occupational structure in the labour market, as well as the analysis and forecasts of the number of employees in the cross-section of major, sub-major and minor occupations groups in Poland. Historical data analysis covered the period 1995-2018, apart from that in the last chapter it was extended by 2019 and 2020. The forecasts results were presented in the short horizon until 2025 and in the long horizon, in five-year intervals from 2025 to 2050. An attempt was also made to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the occupational structure in Poland. The presented results made it possible to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the expected transformations in the labour market in Poland. The high forecast dynamics of the increase in the demand for specialists and the decrease in demand for farmers indicates the continuation of the process of transition of the Polish economy towards the knowledge-based economy in the coming years.

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The space of the Holy Land in the 16th-century descriptions of Polish pilgrims. Series: Analecta Literackie i Językowe XIX

Przestrzeń Ziemi Świętej w szesnastowiecznych deskrypcjach polskich pielgrzymów. Analecta Literackie i Językowe XIX

Author(s): Katarzyna Ossowska-Kulińska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Holy Land; peregrination; geopoetics, chorography; description

The Holy Land is recognized due to its unique location for the events described in The Bible and its depicted this way since the Second Century. You cannot find any other region that holds so many of geographical, historical, and literary masterpiecies. One of the most interesting resources of presenting this region is the peregrinations which serve as the written memory of the pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The diaries, summaries of events, and guides for the pilgrims count for the majority of the Western European and Late Middle Ages Pilgrimages. This genre includes four unique peregrinations of the Holy Land written by the Polish authors, which are as follows: Terrae sancte et urbis Hierusalem descriptio fratris Anzelmi ordinis Minorum de observantia by Anzelm Pollak, Jan Twardowski's itenary, Jan Gorynski's diary and the description of the journey to the Holy Land Syria and Egypt by Mikolaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwil. They were published only in XVI century, much later than the Italian or German masterpieces. Does the question arise if those four literary works differ from the Western European Pilgrimages to Palestine? What was the most interesting part of these pilgrimages and how The Holy Land was presented? What is the uniqueness of the Polish masterpieces describing the exploration of the Holy Places? Is their main focus on the religious aspect of Palestine or maybe they also present the oriental atmosphere of this place? In this book, you can find the answers to the above questions but not limited to those. I believe you might be interested in the pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Polish pilgrims who also discovered the Middle East's culture and Nature.

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