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Sex, lies, and memoirs: on writing intimate ethnography, dealing with silence and ethically ambiguous storytelling
Get PDFThis article uses the notion of intimate ethnography to further a discussion on social constructions of family ties, secrets and complex strategies of storytelling. Using the example of a book published about one’s own family history, the author presents several ethical dilemmas where engagement with intimate ethnographies is fraught with pitfalls and can tear apart people, families and individuals; however, it can also give a brief and illuminating holistic experience of mutual horizontal connectedness, human harmony, and communion across time and space. The article argues that the intimacy in this ethnography traces the residues of violence and oppression, but also moments of harmony and happiness to create a holistic, complete, anthropological picture of myself and the world that makes me – with its bright and dark sides
Doing fieldwork, doing anthropology. Anthropological perspectives, challenges and problems in humanities and social sciences. Educational and pedagogical tool
No full textThis publication has been produced as part of the STER NAWA programme run by the University of Rzeszów Doctoral School, where the Author has been the Visiting Professor in May 2024. Its main aims are to present a unique and in-depth perspective on anthropological approaches to humanities and social sciences that should be helpful for the University of Rzeszów scholars, Early Career Researchers and students in expanding their knowledge, awareness of theoretical frameworks used in anthropological research but also to embark onto more interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary scientific endeavours. Thus the aim of the publication is both pedagogical as well as scientific geared towards equipping readers with more practical, applicable and impactful research practice.This project has been supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange under the NAWA STER programme - Internationalisation of Doctoral Schools No BPI/STE/2023/1/00001/ U / 000 01.
NAWA STER: „UR an international PhD student” (nr BPI/STE/2023/1/00001/ U/00001
Between civilisation, race, and nation: transnational dimensions of far-right activism in post-Brexit Britain
No full textImmigrants are usually studied as targets of the far right, not as participants in it. Addressing this gap, the article examines Polish immigrants’ involvement in Britain’s far-right politics, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted between 2023 and 2025. It explores how far-right actors stretch categories of ‘nativeness’ to include some immigrants, justifying this through civilisational or racial arguments depending on ideological profile and proximity to political mainstream, both logics ultimately fulfilling similar exclusionary functions. Moving from this general dynamic to the empirical cases, the article shows how Polish nationalist myths, reinterpreted and fused with British radical-right narratives, support civilisationist strategies of incorporation, while transnational appeals to whiteness underpin extreme-right cooperation and claims to equality with ‘native’ activists. The study demonstrates that immigrants’ engagement with the far right must be understood relationally, challenging assumptions that their political participation is uniformly democratic, and broadening debates on immigrant activism and the far right
Czy Bóg to Gadzio? Religijność i konwersje polskich Romów w perspektywie elastycznych epistemologii romskości
Get PDFThe article is an anthropological analysis of religious conversions among Polish Roma. Through pioneering ethnographic work among transnational Roma communities, the article takes a critical approach to contemporary analysis of religious lives of Roma in Polish scholarship. Following the relational approach of Frederik Barth, Michael Stewart and participatory ethnography of Paloma Gay y Blasco, the article proposes an ethnographically grounded interpretation of new forms of religiosity among Polish Roma emphasizing individual agency, creativity and the so called by Marco Solimene and Stefanii Pontrandolfo flexible epistemologies, through which we can better grasp overall social changes in Poland.
English language title: Is God a gadjo? Religion and conversions among Polish Roma through flexible epistemologies of Rom
OF ALCOHOL AND MEN – SURVIVAL, MASCULINITIES AND ANTI-INSTITUTIONALISM OF POLISH HOMELESS MEN IN A GLOBAL CITY
No full textThis article looks at the issue of the dramatic raise of street homelessness among Polish men from the perspective of social anthropology looking at the relationship between structural constraints faced by Polish migrants and their own perception of the social world, their meaning-making practices, norms and values, behavioral patterns. As I will show, focusing just on structural and economic determinants not only offers simplistic and one-dimensional picture but it also fails to give an explanation and prediction what happens if these constraints and exclusionary policies are removed and homeless migrants gain same set of social rights as the rest of British and EU citizens (which in theory will happen in May 2011). An anthropological approach to the functions, roles and cultural meanings of homelessness, group bonds, masculinities, alcohol consumption, perception of the state and dominant society as voiced by homeless migrants I ‘hanged around’ with, reveals that structurally rejected, people with particular backgrounds reconstruct communities and form strong ties despite (or because of) a hostile, exclusionary and hegemonic social environment of the neoliberal order. Two conclusions are drawn from this analysis, empirical and theoretical: first taking both structural and cultural factors into account the levels of homeless among that group is going to rise, at least in London; second the set of cultural forms of behavior and social practices described in academic literature as the homo sovieticus syndrome (Wedel 1986, Sztompka 2000, Morawska 1998) proves not only valuable and resourceful in highly individualized, neoliberal and capitalistic society but may be in fact reinforced in new conditions being a productive – socially and culturally - counter-reaction to the neoliberal order of social life in the global city
AGNIESZKA BIELAWSKA, CHANGING POLISH IDENTITIES – POST-WAR AND POST-ACCESSION POLISH MIGRANTS IN MANCHESTER, WYDAWNICTWO PETER LANG, OXFORD & BERN, 2012
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Superdiverzita a antropologie globálního města na začátku 21. století :EASA, Bristol, 18.-21. září 2006
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RESOURCEFUL INDIVIDUALISTS OR ANOMIC EGOISTS? STEREOTYPES AND AUTO-STEREOTYPES OF POLISH MIGRANTS IN GREAT BRITAIN IN AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
No full textW artykule podejmuję kwestię stereotypu z perspektywy antropologicznej jako narzędzia
danej kultury w naznaczaniu rzeczywistości społecznej, będącego jednocześnie – co
nie do końca zostaje uznane przez bardziej socjologiczne teorie stereotypu – wysoce
plastycznym, kontekstualnym i zależnym od indywidualnych decyzji aktorów w danym
polu władzy. Korzystając z inspirującej teorii stereotypu Zygmunta Benedyktowicza, w celu
doprecyzowania wielorakich funkcji stereotypów, przyglądam się w artykule stereotypowi
migranta polskiego w Wielkiej Brytanii. Stereotyp Polaków jako zaradnych, obrotnych
i ciężko pracujących indywidualistów idzie w parze ze znaczeniowo podobnym, ale
o skrajnie odmiennym zabarwieniu etycznym stereotypie Polaków jako nie potrafiących
się zorganizować egoistów mających jedynie swój interes na względzie. Aby zrozumieć
sens i społeczną funkcję tego stereotypu należy jednak – jak podkreśla Benedyktowicz
– patrzeć nie na zawartość stereotypu i kogo on dotyczy, ale przede wszystkim na tego
kto go wytwarza.In this article I look at stereotypes from an anthropological perspective which differs slightly
from a sociological one in recognizing its plasticity, context of use and its dependence on
social actors’ reproduction in a given field of power. Using an inspiring and refreshingtheory of stereotypes by Zygmunt Benedyktowicz, in order to decode their various meanings
and functions I look at stereotypes around Polish migrants in Great Britain. Two similar in
meaning but opposite in ethical valuation stereotypes operate there – one that sees Polish
migrants and individualistic, opportunity driven, hardworking economic actors, another
that treats them as egoistic, unable to organize and inward looking. In order to understand
the meanings and functions of these we need to – as Benedyktowicz reminds us – look
not at the content and the addressee of the stereotype but who actually produces them
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