Przyroda w mieście: pamięć czy zapomnienie? Przykład Coney Island w Nowym Jorku oraz Weißensee i Spreeinsel w Berlinie

Author(s): Albert Miściorak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2015

The presence of nature in a city, especially one growing so spontaneously, has always aroused ambivalent feelings in its residents. Although, the city bears a yearning for “wild” nature (whose classic realization are English gardens), urban actions are aimed at keeping a safe distance from it. In contemporary cities “wild” nature appeared in the post-war ruins, post-industrial wastelands, peripheral cemeteries, etc. For many people, they are a symbol of degradation and oblivion, therefore, are often subjected to intensive restoration and conservation, which brings about liquidation of wildlife. But is it right? Have these places really lost all the power of recalling memories — these private and collective? In my speech, I will try to answer these questions, based on the study of a luna park in Coney Island (New York), Weißensee Jewish Cemetery (Berlin) and Spreeinsel — historical centre of Berlin.

Kulinaria w przestrzeni miasta. Nowe trendy, nowe potrzeby mieszkańców

Author(s): Dorota Świtała-Trybek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 15/2015

The subject of this article is culinary trends observable in Polish cities during the past few years. They include both the rediscovered practices, directly related to the cultural (culinary) heritage of a particular area, and these which have become popular only recently. According to the author, characteristic culinary fads are: the promotion of local delicacies on a large scale, growing interest in shopping in farmers’ markets offering organic produce (bio-markets) and traditional goods, growing popularity of street food (including street food festivals and picnics), and organizing the so called “breakfast on the grass” events.

Terytorium i terytorializacja w europejskiej polityce rozwoju regionalnego

Author(s): Aleksandra Jewtuchowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 98/2016

In the first part of the paper the author analyses the process of moving from the concepts of spaceand region to the notion of territory as a new development paradigm. The technological revolutionand resulting globalisation processes have brought about deep changes in the world economy. Thesephenomena have called into question the theoretical concepts dominating in economic sciencessince the 1970s. In regional economics the necessity to reformulate previous concepts has beentriggered by the inadequacy of existing conceptions and doctrines to explain new tendencies inspatial development. The second part of the paper demonstrates how concepts such as territory,territorialisation and territoriality gradually replace the notion of region or space in debates onEuropean regional policy and in official EU documents.

TURCY I ARABOWIE WOBEC IDEI NACJONALIZMU W OKRESIE UPADKU IMPERIUM OSMAŃSKIEGO (1908–1925)

Author(s): Bartosz Wróblewski / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 02/2005

Wybrane kierunki edukacji historyczno-politycznej w Republice Federalnej Niemiec

Author(s): Jerzy Centkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01/2004

The Conference of Ministers of Education of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1950 issued a directive stating that each subject of school education, in line with its specificity, was to contribute to political education of youth. Historical education of youth was required to shape their historical thinking oriented to understanding of the present. The ensuing directives of the educational authorities emphasized decidedly tasks of historical education treated as an “experimental laboratory” for political educa-tion, including a critical light thrown on National Socialism and all kinds of totalitarianism, anti-Seimitism, all kinds of discrimination and breaking human rights. Not only in the Federal Republic but also in the German Democratic Republic, both in politics and in education in the 1950s and 1960s, a special weight was attached to the so called German problem, meaning the unification of Germany which was pre-sented as a global problem... Historical-political education of the West German youth in the 1950s provided objective knowledge of the German problem and of the neighbours from the other side of the Elbe. It distanced young Germans from the Bonn Republic from their country-fellowmen on the other side of the Elbe. In the German Democratic model of historical-political education, the German problem was perceived in an ideo-logical dimension, especially in respect to teaching the youth the spirit of Democratic Socialism and hostility to the Federal Republic as an “imperialistic state”. The changing of the governing elites in both of the German states at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s started a new chapter in the bilateral relations, marking progress from confrontation to co-existence. The model of historical-political education did not corre-spond with the transformation, therefore the contents of the model of education were adapted to the political changes. The breakthroughs in the history of Europe and Germany over the centuries, such as “the Autumn of the Peoples”, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the system of the real socialism reached the educational authorities’ and institutions involved in the European integration from the point of view of historical-political education with a delay not only in the united Germany but also in other countries of Western Europe. Only in November 1991 did the Conference of the Ministers of Education issue a di-rective entitled “On the European dimension in education”. Something resembling a “discovery of the history” of Central and Eastern Europe and the reciprocated interest in the history of Western Europe in the systems of education of the countries in the European Union is a beginning of the process of European integra-tion in respect to historical-political education on the scale of the whole continent.

Proces decyzyjny na rynku nieruchomości na przykładzie zakupu działki pod budowę własnego domu

Author(s): Alina Źróbek-Różańska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 95/2016

A real estate buyer can be both a professional investor, able to conduct an adequate analysis on its own or advised by a counsellor, which leads to the optimal choice, and an ‘ordinary’ person who achieves knowledge about the real estate market from easily accessible sources of information and thus makes a decision on the basis of the basic data or own associations. The aim of the article is to present an individual decision making process. It has been assumed that the buyer of a plot intended for building a residential house makes a decision according to the weighted additive rule, including the possibility of compensation. It leads not to the optimal choice, but the most satisfying one. As a result, even the real estate with the weak value of the most important feature can be selected if it is compensated by very high values of other features. Deliberations based on the relevant literature are illustrated by the example of a potential buyer searching for a residential plot neighbouring Olsztyn.

O dyskursie archeologiczno-socjologicznym

Author(s): Dariusz Wojakowski,Sławomir Kadrow / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2014

The article tries to show fundamental theoretic and cognitive issues, that seem common for archeology and sociology. their existence allows not only to implement a common scienti c discourse, but also it may inspire the growth of each discipline. As far as we are concerned, common re ection upon meaning of “things” for the existence of social world, and recognition of mechanisms that create everyday life is exceptionally inspiring. moreover, both disciplines have similar experiences with multiplicity of theoretical-methodological paradigms and contend with the issue of change and continuity of culture (using different time perspectives).

Proces odrodzenia praw amerykańskich ludów rdzennych na przykładzie „Prawa do ziemi” kanadyjskich inuitów

Author(s): Grzegorz Bonusiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2014

The Inuit lives in the areas attending along the Arctic Circle, from the Aleutians and Alaska, the northern part of Canada, to belonging to denmark greenland. the census of 2006 showed there is about 50 thousand of Inuit in Canada. In the second half of the twentieth century they joined the efforts to change the situation of indigenous peoples residing in the territory of Canada. initially marginalized and neglected by the white majority, they were able to resist the dominant culture and maintain their own individuality, and even to earn the right to decide of their own fate. They have successfully used the processes occurring in the international arena and domestic politics in Canada, combining their efforts with those of the American indians. As with other aboriginal people around the world, for the inuit an extremely important issue was the possession and use of land and its resources. the crowning of their efforts was the creation from the areas inhabited by them a separate territory of Nunavut. This paper presents the process of revival of the Canadian Inuit and the current scope of their autonomy. It draws attention to the conditions and processes linking them with the American Indians and the métis, and to the issues and consequences of differences in the fate and status of the inuit. the problem of „land rights” and different from european understanding of it was particularly brought into prominence.

DIGITAL STORYTELLING: CREATIVE WRITING AS A FORM OF PARTICIPATION IN LITERARY CULTURE

Author(s): Lucyna Stetkiewicz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

Digital storytelling on the website Lubimyczytac.pl contributes to an increase in the reading public, to active participation in literary discourse, and to the change of passive consumers of popular culture into active agents of the eld of literature. With the use of the anthropological approach and the tool of virtual ethnography, one sub-segment is of this website is investigated to nd out how one communication media (printed books) enhances both creative writing and reading itself, and how the latter cultural pattern is promoted.

Integralność, samodzielność i celibat

Author(s): Agnieszka Gajewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 06/2014

Feminist discourse has developed several strategies for opposing the ideas of pronatalism imposed by family-friendly policies, popular culture and religious dogma. The article examines examples of feminist prose and calls from within the women’s movement advocating political celibacy, and thereby challenging the social consensus on motherhood as the overriding aim of women’s lives. Speeches by feminists focus on analyzing the situation of poverty-stricken, financially dependent women, for whom children are a burden that limit their already limited opportunities to realize their ambitions in life. The authors of these feminist texts draw attention to the real mental, physical and financial costs of childcare, as well as the alienation experienced by mothers who devote themselves to their children. All this leads to the fact that the icon of the feminist movement cannot be the mother, who is focused on the private sphere and places the interests of her own children over solidarity with other women.

Problemy dziedzictwa narodowego na „Ziemiach Odzyskanych” na przykładzie Dolnego Śląska

Author(s): Michał Siekierka / Language(s): Polish Issue: XIII/2015

Social memory is one of the footings of human identity. Collective memory helps not only to understand the past but also the present. Difficult postwar situation related to the inflow of the displaced from Eastern Borderlands and other parts of the country, has created problems of identity to the people who were foreign to that area. Polish culture, customs, traditions and administrative organization has been built from the ground up, in a situation of uncertainty and fear. The state propaganda narrative specialized in speaking of historical justice and return of Poland to its former borders. Moreover, in the Polish People’s Republic everything that related to the former Eastern Borderlands was subject to confabulation and political censorship - this piece of Polish history for many years did not work at all in the minds of average citizens. The past displaced to Lower Silesia began to be “discovered” after 1989, both in the German cultural heritage and Polish customs.

Stabilność ładu politycznego cywilizacji zachodniej według Erica Voegelina – uwarunkowania kulturowe

Author(s): Marek Pająk / Language(s): Polish Issue: XIII/2015

The purpose of this article is a critical presentation of Eric Voegelin’s ideas about Western civilization’s political order and its cultural conditions. Voegelin points at two main sources of the Western order - „symbolizations” – pneumatic in Israel and noetic in Hellas. Along with the Roman organization of power they represent the foundation that created the Western civilization and still determines the stability of its political order. The author of “Order and History” emphasizes the importance of a balance between cultural factors that determine the durability and vitality of the West. On the other hand, he points at risks that are associated with the aporias of the symbolic articulation of order. The article is an outline of Voegelin’s diagnosis. This paper is a result of the research project no. 2013/09/N/HS5/00057 funded by the National Science Center.

Zaangażowani i obojętni wobec działalności publicznej. Teoria kultury politycznej jako narzędzie analizy postaw wobec sfery publicznej

Author(s): Piotr Czakon / Language(s): Polish Issue: XIII/2015

In this article the author presented chosen themes from his MA thesis that focused on the general problem of university students’ participation in the public sphere. However in paper, the author focused on the theoretical and operational aspect of his research project. The article provides the description of elaborated classification model of the participants of the study – division into the people with “active” and “passive” attitude to the public sphere. For this purpose, the author reinterpreted classical visions of the public sphere, civil society and political culture, demonstrating that the division of attitudes to political systems can be applied for analysis of the entire public sphere as based on the theory of political culture.

Kultura polskiej twórczości audiowizualnej w tworzeniu krajowych adaptacji zagranicznych formatów telewizyjnych

Author(s): Kamil Niesłony / Language(s): Polish Issue: XIII/2015

A dozen years ago, Polish television was practically relied on domestic production. The original auditions, which were deep-rooted in the national culture, have filled up the broadcasting content. The turning point for Polish audio-visual production ensued in 1992, when first national adaptations of worldwide TV formats (mainly TV quiz shows like Wheel of Fortune or Family Feud) came up in Polish Television. Nowadays, TV formats have dominated the schedules of public and commercial media, especially in the prime time. Although the licence agreements forbid to make changes in bought foreign formats, Polish authors try to adjust the TV formats to domestic conditions. The presented article was aimed at answering the question how Polish authors modify the auditions based on foreign licences to save national cultural identity.

Rzeczywistość kulturowo-społeczna w oczach użytkowników internetu – memy internetowe jako zwierciadło nastrojów społecznych

Author(s): Karolina Łapińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: XIII/2015

The aim of the article is to analyze the Internet memes as a reflection of popular themes and social moods manifested specifically in so-called “Internet culture”. In the introduction, the origins of memes are described in relation to the memetics, a science from which they derive. Next part of the article reflects on the impact of Internet memes and their major functions: communication, information, ludic, integrating and opinion-forming. Reflection on the social and cultural phenomenon of memes, treated as digital signs circulating in the network, is based on the analysis of specific examples of Internet memes, which users created as a commentary to the events shown in media between 2013 and 2015.

Zmiany funkcjonalne a przekształcenia ziemi rolnej na cele pozarolnicze na obszarach rozdrobnionych agrarnie

Author(s): Zofia Sawicka,Piotr Fogel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The following study aims at verifying whether and to which extent functionalchanges affect the conversion of agricultural land. The land under study features fragmentedagrarian structure and the proximity of a subregional city with a population of more than100 thousand. The paper describes legal conditions of agricultural land conversion (AL),analyses the risk of conversion and the functional and spatial changes of the area under study in 2004–2013. High population density and fragmented agrarian structure createstrong pressure on AL conversion. The data illustrating changes in the income structureof agricultural holdings show that the area becomes multifunctional. A simultaneousanalysis of utilized agricultural area supported by direct payment shows no relevant changein the share of AL. This leads to a conclusion that the functional transformation does notnecessarily mean corresponding spatial changes. They may be based on a more intensiveuse of land which has already been urbanized. This way of thinking is absent among localland-use planners. In 2011 – 2013 the surface of non-agricultural land in local land-useplans has increased several times.

Miejski Ośrodek Kultury w Zgierzu – więcej niż kultura…

Author(s): Monika Sadowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2015

The articles focuses on the activity of the Town Cultural Centre in Zgierz. An examination of the provisions of the law allows us to rationally explain the aims and tasks faced by the Centre, and the methods due to which the Town Cultural Centre is perceived as a centre for alternative culture, a forum for social debate, and, primarily, as a people-friendly institution.

Społeczność japońska w Stanach Zjednoczonych w latach 1930–1941. Zarys problemu

Author(s): Mariusz Puchacz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 13/2015

The Japanese started coming to the United States at the end of the XIX century. The fact that they were not welcome was reflected in the US state and federal legislation. In the 1920s the Japanese society – embracing two generations – counted fewer than 300,000 people. The first generation, the Issei, were deprived of the right to naturalization. Their children, the Nisei – born in the United States and in the majority of cases Americanized – constituted the second generation. The Japanese lived mainly in Hawaii, as the biggest national minority, and in the West Coast, especially California. In the 1930s life was difficult for the Japanese living in the United States. Apart from the previous problems, they had to cope with new ones – connected with the economic crisis and Japan’s foreign policy. Their widespread and selfless support for Japan’s aggression against China was not only disapproved of by Americans; it also complicated their situation on the eve of the war. On the other hand, it was the time when the Nisei actively joined political life. Their biggest organization, the Japanese American Citizen League (JACL) was quite successful and in the Territory of Hawaii some Japanese became members of the local legislature for the first time.

Masowa demokracja państwa socjalnego jako sedno dialektyki rozumu

Author(s): Jakub Nalichowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 60/2015

The goal of my paper is to show the Frankfurt School and young Jürgen Habermas’ comprehension of dialectics of reason as dialectics of mass politics. I start with discussion on the position of Frankfurt School. Then I analyze reasons that made its members fall into defeatism in relation to this issue. This gives me the background to introduce Habermas’s radical transformation of their stance, which opens the door to constructive overcoming of the problem of dialectics of mass politics.

Dwa pojęcia wolności

Author(s): Beata Polanowska-Sygulska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 60/2015

The article offers a thorough presentation of Isaiah Berlin’s conception of freedom, based on the recognition of its metadoctrinal character (such an interpretation had been fully accepted by Berlin). The reconstruction is backed up with many references to the author’s correspondence and conversations with Berlin. It consists, among other things, of: investigation of the intellectual sources of Berlin’s liberalism, analysis of his famous conceptual differentiation between negative and positive freedom (supplemented by a characteristics of the so-called basic freedom developed in correspondence), discussion of the masterly critique of rationalist metaphysics and identification of the maintenet of Two Concepts of Liberty, that is a warning against manipulation of the concept of freedom. Research into Berlin’s doctrine of freedom is carried out in a broad polemical context. A special stress is put on the surprising relevance of the allegedly out-dated Berlin’s reflection and also on the significance of the pluralist movement initiated by him within the liberal tradition.