Rewitalizacja miast w Polsce: wczoraj, dziś i być może jutro

Author(s): Jerzy J. Parysek / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 17/2015

One of the problems of Polish towns for years awaiting a sensible solution is large-scale urban renewal. This is an urgent problem, because the material texture of Polish towns has been undergoing steady degradation. On a broad understanding of this process, urban renewal is also the reconstruction of towns after war-induced damage, which means that Polish towns have a tradition of steps taken in this field, although the conception of revitalisation /urban renewal itself has only been used for some 20 years. This paper will discuss the notion of urban renewal, its basic aspects and problems, and the character of revitalisation processes conducted in Poland from the postwar rebuilding of towns until the present (in the new systemic conditions). It will also examine the hopes, fears and problems connected with the future of urban renewal, especially with reference to the economic situation of towns and the assumptions of the Revitalisation Act. Reflections will concern the Polish socio-economic reality, embracing also the new financial perspective of the European Union (until 2020).

Skuteczność procesu rewitalizacji. Uwarunkowania, mierniki, perspektywy

Author(s): Sylwia Kaczmarek / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 17/2015

The revitalization of urban areas in different European regions has been held for over 30 years, while in Poland it is carried out with varying intensity in the regions for over 15 years. Following research questions were formulated: How is it possible to evaluate the effectiveness of the revitalization process carried out in a specific location? What determines the success of the method of the implementation of revitalization programs? Is it possible to prepare the set of universal parameters which constitute the monitoring system of the process? Based on the overview of revitalization projects realized in cities world wide the identification and analysis of the evaluation methods used for the process has been carried out. In conclusion, the new approach to the revitalization evaluation has been proposed which allows to identify its effectiveness, called revitalization evaluation formula

Rola funduszy europejskich w finansowaniu procesu rewitalizacji miast w Polsce

Author(s): Małgorzata Prusik,Anna Banaszek,Ryszard Źróbek / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 17/2015

Article is about the legal and economic issues, the process of revitalization of cities in Poland. The purpose of this article is to present the role of the European funds and other sources of financing in the process of revitalizing urban areas at regional and local level. The scope of research article refers to the regional level of the local. At the regional level tested and the National Strategic Reference Framework 2007–2013 and 16 Regional Operational Programmes 2007–2013. Research at the local level based on Local Area Revitalization Program the city of Olsztyn for 2007–2015 and the regeneration of urban areas in Rzeszów for the period 2007–2015. In addition, the article gives an overview of environmental projects. The research demonstrates that European funds are the basis for the financing of investments in revitalization.

Zastosowanie analizy wielokryterialnej do wspomagania procesu decyzyjnego w projektowaniu rewitalizacji obszarów miejskich

Author(s): Slawomir PALICKI / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 17/2015

This article attempts to show the possibilities of applying multicriteria methods in assisting the decision-making process in the projects of urban space revitalization. The use of multi-criteria analysis improves the level of conscious perception of the complexity and competitiveness of goals and consequences of revitalization, through its socialization, democratization and discursiveness. The evaluation of potential changes in part of Poznan city showed in the paper is an illustration of the use of proposed methods. Multi-criteria analysis can be an interesting tool for researching the socially satisfactory solution, among the available variants of action.

Around the Bloc: Night Wolves Visit to Bulgaria Sparks Tensions, Clashes

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 07/05/2016

The arrival of the notorious pro-Kremlin bikers club triggers fights between supporters and critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Around the Bloc: Kazakh Authorities Detain Suspected Terrorists

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 07/05/2016

Authorities deny connection to the 5 June attacks in the city of Aktobe.

Pierwsze organizacje Cyganów/Romów

Author(s): Elena Marushiakova / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2015

Over the past two decades the Roma issue has become one of the most current topics in European public space and also became especially relevant within academia. Despite of this there are still under-researched topics, such as history of the emer gence and development of Roma emancipatory movement on the eve of modern times. On base of archival research the article presents the first certainly documented testimony of Roma aspiration towards civil emancipation in “A letter to the editor” published in 1868; first attempt for self-organization of Roma from Bulgarian town of Vidin from 1910, the creation and activities of the first organizations in city of Sofia from 1919 and others. The article revails previously unknown facts about the history of Roma movement, reflecting the first of all attempts for empowerment of the Roma communities in the pre-industrial period and their struggle for equality in Eastern Europe. At the end in the article is proposed an explanation about the reasons for the rapid development of Roma movement especially in Southeastern Europe in context of their societal position.

Doświadczenie zagłady i początki samoorganizacji niemieckich Sinti

Author(s): Sławomir Kapralski / Language(s): English,Polish,Romany Issue: 1/2015

The article presents the genealogy of the process of self-organization of German Sinti in the context of the aftermath of the Nazi persecution of this group. The author points out the ambivalent construction of Sinti identity that has been developed in the course of the fight for compensation. It consists of the conviction of having been an integral part of the German society as well as the feeling of having been excluded from this society. This ambiguity is interpreted in terms of an anthropological model of double coding, in which identity is understood as a dynamic process of building the relations between the external and internal boundaries of the group. This model has been subsequently used in the description of the relations between Sinti and Roma.

Around the bloc: Is Serbia Ready for Ex-Guantanamo Detainees?

Author(s): TOL TOL / Language(s): English Issue: 07/19/2016

Some activists say the nation doesn’t have the resources to re-socialize two men who were locked away for more than 14 years.

Chłopski grupowy portret pośmiertny

Author(s): Bartosz Flak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2015

The peasant (group) posthumous portrait is one of the four canons of posthumous photography executed in Poland in the last century. This text attempts to analyse five portraits upon the basis of the specificity of peasant culture. The interpretation is based on the mythopoeic potential of the camera, which assists in telling stories about the passage of time, the changing generations, the transmission of genes and tradition, man’s place on Earth, and the place he goes to after death.

Z rozważań nad dobrem gminy

Author(s): Zofia Duniewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 98/2016

The article includes considerations devoted to the good of the municipality: the contents that liebehind this concept, the connections between this good and other ones and the factors influencingits conformation. The municipality may be perceived as a small version of the homeland that fillsthe space between the family and the state-level community. Its residents create a self-governmentcommunity by virtue of law. It serves the good of the commune, especially – its members. Thegood of the municipality is a primary value, underlying the existence of the local community, itsprosperity, law and order. As a value itself, the good of a municipality should entrench other merits.The list of factors, building that complex and underdetermined term, is non-exhaustive and extensive.This good has also a relative nature. It may be featured from different points of view and indistinct contexts. Its relations to other goods may take different forms. There are various factors,deciding what constitutes such good. They are rooted in the very center of the community, as wellas outside of it as the independent ones. Delineating and realization of the good of the municipalityhas to be based on the consensus reached through the discussion and the social compromise. Theactions undertaken for the benefit of the municipality are closely correlated with the nature and therole of the primary territorial self-government unit. The good of the municipality – having regardto the respect for, in particular, the principles of humanism, legitimacy, equality, social justice,democratism, solidarity and subsidiarity – is a primary rationale for its existence and for entrustingpublic functions to the individuals acting for its benefit.

„Nowa epoka” jako kategoria kompensacyjna. Metodologiczne wyzwania opisu a casus dwudziestowiecznej Macedonii

Author(s): Lech Miodyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2014

This article depicts the functions and possible means of describing Macedonian historiosophic and cultural visions stemming from the political transformations of 1991. These are presented against the backdrop of changes in collective consciousness in the 20th century. Issues of research methodology and the identity of the new beginning idea (and its components) in four contexts (genetic, onthological, axiological and processual) are depicted. Within the first of these, attention is drawn to the problems of retrospective temporal orientation, assimilation of the past, “synchrony of history” and reflection of prototypes, a new conceptual network of reconstructed meanings, and selection of causalities. The second context relates to the deliberate-beneficent idea of time, the domination of “structural history”, the constructive application of previous – mainly romantic – historiosophic categories: a nation’s moral predestination (Hegel), crisis as a factor of change (Burckhardt), subordination of the category of history towards freedom in the succession of epochs (Fichte), breakthrough as a stopping of the process of decay (corso – ricorso – Vico), and the importance of periodisation and turning points. The third context includes the following items: the bond of descent towards a claim of newness and liberation, “correcting the lack of fulfilment” of the past, the “positive Apocalypse” of perpetual national revolution, the heroisation of everyday life, the politisation of culture and re-interpretation of tradition: antiquity (the sphere of archaeology), the Middle Ages, folklore, revolts and national renaissance; and the romanticism of sacrifice and lynching in the light of a postmodern neutralisation of heroism. The fourth context consists of socially-compensated elements themselves: a) national (with four indications), state-political (institutional), c) historical-cultural (identifying-imagological), and d) material-economic (pragmatic). The various scenarios for restoring their memory are also present in this part: cleansing in the past, establishment in the present and liberation in the future. Their image is made complete by a short presentation of heritage canonisation patterns and ethnocentric re-evaluation of methodologies in the Macedonian humanities after 1991.

Trudności samorządów terytorialnych w Polsce w procesie planowania rozwoju regionalnego

Author(s): Joanna Kizielewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 417/2016

Since the accession of Poland to the European Union, regional authorities have systematically developed strategic documents for regional development. This process is tedious and requires coordination with national documents, EU’s financial planning and Regional Operational Programmes. Development strategies are subjects of environmental consultations which is also the source of conflicts. The purpose of this article is to identify the difficulties which regional authorities were faced in the process of preparing strategies for development of the regions. The article gives the results of surveys carried out among the 16 Marshall’s offices in Poland in two periods of development planning i.e. in 2006, when there were prepared the strategies for the period 2007-2013 and in 2013, when there were works on documents for the period 2014-2020.

Potencjał klasy kreatywnej jako elementu strategii rozwoju zrównoważonego na przykładzie wybranych obszarów miejskich

Author(s): Sławomir Kotylak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 417/2016

This article aims to support the argument that the potential of the creative class as defined by Richard Florida and being a key element of the creative industries sector is an important element for sustainable city development strategy. For the purposes of the study the following research approaches were applied: functional approach, methodology of the functional analysis, comparative analysis, expert approach, benchmarking. These approaches to a greater extent base on research literature, and to a lesser extent on diagnostic testing (assessment of the facts), combining them with the creation of models and patterns. The latter are the basis for the preparation of utility solutions that could serve as practical implications for the process of creation strategy for sustainable development of urban areas.

Spójność i rozwój zrównoważony na Dolnym Śląsku w kontekście strategii Europa 2020 – wybrane aspekty

Author(s): Ewa Szostak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 417/2016

Problems of sustainable development are reflected in various documents and guidelines of the EU, including the Lisbon strategy. The article will address issues of regional development in relation to the objectives of the Lisbon strategy and the possibility of achieving them. The author analyzes the current stage of implementation of strategic objectives and the ability to achieve the objectives in 2020 in the region of Lower Silesia. Lower Silesia is perceived as a region with a high competitive position in the country. However, the region is diverse internally in terms of development problems and potentials. The Europe 2020 strategy sets priorities to contribute to the competitiveness of EU regions with the assumption that this development will take place in a sustainable way. At the regional level a document which forms the basis of policy is the strategy of development voivodeship. This article aims to identify those aspects of the implementation of strategic objectives in the region that require additional attention of regional and national authorities so that their implementation is as close as possible to achieve the stated objectives. The study used statistical data analysis and strategic documents of the EU and Lower Silesia.

Fundusze Polityki Spójności UE a zrównoważony rozwój polskich regionów

Author(s): Magdalena Wojarska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 417/2016

The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between the absorption of EU cohesion policy funds and the level of sustainable development of Polish regions. The size of the EU funds absorption was estimated based on the database of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development. The level of sustainable development of regions was determined by TOPSIS method using the indicators from Local Data Bank. There is no correlation between both values – Pearson correlation coefficient was only 0.18. There was also no significant correlation between the intervention of individual funds and the areas of sustainable development (with the exception of a moderate relationship between the expenditure of Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance and economic governance).

DIGITAL NATIVES OR NOT? HOW DO ROMANIAN ADOLESCENTS CROSS THE BOUNDARIES OF INTERNET COMMON USE

Author(s): Bianca Balea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The present paper challenges the dominance of the digital natives’ agenda and turns its attention to the social context in which Internet usage among adolescents occurs. Findings indicate that even when young people are using the Internet with the same frequency, i.e. every day, the differences among them remain significant. Therefore, it can be argued that considering an entire cohort to be similar in terms of Internet use only due its age is a misconception. The way children make use of the Internet and the gratifications they gain after using it depend, as van Dijk (2005) showed, on the quality of access, on the level of skills, and on the personal (e.g. Experience, self-efficacy, confidence) and positional resources (e.g. Age, gender, socio-economic status). Questioning the main determinants that lead to the most advanced way to make use of the Internet, the logistic analysis shows that, in order for a Romanian adolescent to turn into an experienced user once he or she embedded the Internet in his or her everyday life, is a matter of skills, experience, and time online, and is less a matter of socioeconomic background. However, we have to keep in mind the previous path analysis’ findings, which emphasize that online experience, time spent online, self-efficacy, and digital skills are all determined, through direct or indirect effects, by demographic variables (i.e. age, gender and socio-economic status), even when age is held constant (Fizesan [Balea], 2012).

Kapitał kulturowy jako determinanta i zasób ekonomii społecznej

Author(s): Łukasz Maźnica / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2013

Prezentowany artykuł ma na celu zwrócenie uwagi na wielopoziomowe relacje, jakie wiążą ekonomię społeczną z kulturą. Wychodząc od koncepcji i badań wskazujących na wysokie znaczenie poziomu kapitału społecznego dla potencjału rozwojowego ekonomii społecznej, autor stara się pokazać, że być może jeszcze istotniejsza jest w tym kontekście i w tej relacji kultura. Jest ona, wedle wielu uznanych w literaturze przedmiotu koncepcji, czynnikiem determinującym kapitał społeczny. Drugim zagadnieniem szerzej poruszanym w tekście jest szansa, jaką daje podmiotom ekonomii społecznej działalność w sektorze kulturalnym bądź działalność oparta na kapitale kulturowym. Przytaczane jest w tym kontekście pojęcie renty monopolowej i analizowane są potencjalne szanse, które można dostrzec w kulturze, kiedy rozważa się możliwości rozwojowe sektora polskiej ekonomii społecznej. Dla ich potwierdzenia prezentowane są także przykłady konkretnych podmiotów gospodarki społecznej, które z powodzeniem funkcjonują, lokując swoją codzienną działalność w przywoływanym obszarze.

Legitymizacja przedsiębiorczości społecznej: izomorfizm refleksyjny w stadium preparadygmatu

Author(s): Alex Nicholls / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

Koncepcja izomorfizmu instytucjonalnego i jego przejawy w sektorze non profit w wybranych krajach

Author(s): Piotr J. Wróbel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2011

W rozmaitych tekstach dotyczących ekonomii społecznej raz po raz pojawia się słowo izomorfizm, dotąd nie rozwijane szerzej w literaturze przedmiotu. Artykuł przedstawia zasadnicze cechy konceptu izomorfizmu instytucjonalnego – pojęcia wypracowanego w dziedzinie socjologii organizacji. Trzy główne typy procesów izomorfizmu, tj. koercyjne, mimetyczne i normatywne, wyodrębnili w swoim klasycznym eseju z 1983 r. P. DiMaggio i W. Powell. Autorzy ci podjęli także próbę antycypacji wystąpienia zmiany izomorficznej poprzez wyszczególnienie wyznaczników takiej zmiany na poziomie organizacji i na poziomie pola organizacyjnego (ustalonego obszaru życia instytucji, jej bliższego i dalszego środowiska). Spośród rożnych prób operacjonalizacji izomorfizmu do bardziej zaawansowanych należą prace E. Lewis. W sektorze non profit z rożnych względów należy się spodziewać występowania tendencji izomorficznych. O niektórych z nich mówił już C. Borzaga. Artykuł obrazuje znane w literaturze zagranicznej przykłady procesów izomorficznych w sektorze pozarządowym i ekonomii społecznej. W Szwecji sieć stowarzyszeń oferujących edukację dla dorosłych zmaga się z uniformizacją wyrastającą z zależności finansowych od państwa oraz z koniecznością orientacji prorynkowej.W Wielkiej Brytanii wszystkie trzy presje izomorficzne zagrażają entuzjastycznej orientacji pro usługowej w sektorze publicznym. Procesy izomorficzne dotykają także przedsiębiorstwa społeczne w Danii. Stan izomorfizmu w polskim sektorze non profit nie został jeszcze szerzej zbadany.