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Ideological Foundation of the Contemporary Anti-Gender Movements in Poland. Most Recent History in the Context of Strategies and Arguments
No full textThis article presents a critical examination of the ideological underpinnings and societal impacts of contemporary anti-gender movements in Poland, utilizing a qualitative research approach supported by critical discourse analysis (CDA). This methodological framework allows for an in-depth exploration of the narratives, strategies, and implications of these movements within the broader socio-political landscape of Poland. Central to the discourse of these movements is the construction of phantom threats against perceived dangers like “gender ideology”, feminism, and “LGBT ideology”. These constructs are analysed as tools for reinforcing conservative-Catholic sentiments and providing political leverage to far-right groups. The article delves into the historical context, tracing the evolution of discourse on gender and LGBTQ+3 rights in Poland as well as its interplay with political decisions and events. The study further examines the strategies employed by these movements, including their use of populist rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and the creation of a dichotomous worldview. A significant focus is placed on the role of the Catholic Church in Poland in shaping and propagating these ideologies, particularly in relation to family, morality, and national identity. Moreover, the article assesses the broader implications of these movements for Polish society and beyond, highlighting their transformative impact on social norms, public policy, and the discourse on gender rights and societal values. This qualitative and discursive analysis contributes significantly to the understanding of gender politics in Poland, offering insights into the global dynamics of anti-gender movements
Migrating for Change: How Polish Feminist Activists Turn Oppression into Action Abroad
Full text linkOver the past decade, feminist activism has significantly expanded globally, responding to increasing gender-based violence and repressive state policies. This article investigates the migration of Polish feminist activists to the UK, specifically examining how oppressive policies targeting reproductive rights, exemplified by Poland's Black Protests and Women's Strike, have influenced their decisions to migrate. Drawing on qualitative research from 21 in-depth interviews, the study uncovers complex migration motivations that blend economic necessity, personal safety, and political defiance. Utilizing "embodied resistance" as a conceptual framework, it argues that migration constitutes a strategic extension of feminist activism, enabling Polish feminists to sustain and expand their advocacy abroad. The study also explores intersectional dimensions of migration, highlighting how race, class, and legal status shape activists' experiences and opportunities for engagement. Ultimately, it contributes to transnational feminist scholarship by reframing migration not merely as escape but as deliberate, politically motivated resistance that reinforces global feminist solidarity and activism.AKNOWLEDGMENTSThis article was written as part of the research project “Political Activism of Poles in Great Britain,” conducted at the University of Gdańsk and funded by the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki, Poland), grant no. UMO-2020/37/B/HS6/01748/Z-2020/37/B/HS6/01748/3
Tanatoturystyka — mroczna strona turystyki
No full textDark tourism is a definition encompassing the visiting of places associated with death, torture, battlefields, places where famous people died, cemeteries and exhibitions showing cadavers. This was always a part of culture, although recently there has been an increased interest of tourists and scientists. It combines not only travel and death but is often used ideologically. Also of interest are the various forms of tourism which are involved with death and the motivations of the tourists who are fascinated by them. Both of them are largely generated by the prevailing general culture — especially by the mass media — whereby death has become an element of consumption and another attraction on the tourism market.Dark tourism is a definition encompassing the visiting of places associated with death, torture, battlefields, places where famous people died, cemeteries and exhibitions showing cadavers. This was always a part of culture, although recently there has been an increased interest of tourists and scientists. It combines not only travel and death but is often used ideologically. Also of interest are the various forms of tourism which are involved with death and the motivations of the tourists who are fascinated by them. Both of them are largely generated by the prevailing general culture — especially by the mass media — whereby death has become an element of consumption and another attraction on the tourism market
Families in migration through the gender lens : a study of Polish transmigrants in Ireland
Full text linkExamining Board: Professor Martin Kohli, European University Institute (Supervisor) Professor Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute (Co-supervisor) Professor Loretta Baldassar, University of Western Australia Professor Malgorzata Fuszara, University of Warsaw.Defence date: 30 May 2013First made available online on 12 June 2013.This thesis tries to determine the impact of transnational family migration on the gendered division of labour and power dynamics between the couples either entrenching inequalities and traditional roles, or challenging and changing them. It shows also how ideas about gender shape transnational family migration patterns, and affect the individual family life of transmigrants. And eventually, it examines the social and family-related consequences of these processes. The research questions have been formulated as follows: How do gender role beliefs and family gender arrangement (gender practice, family gender organization) affect transnational family migration? And how are gender role beliefs and family gender arrangements affected by transnational family migration? It is crucial to stress that the answer to these questions will shed light on potential gender transitions, its directions, circumstances and social and familial consequences of transnational family migration. In order to explain the research problem from a dynamic perspective and distinguish various transnational family phases, I introduce three stages which I call pre-transnational, transnational and post-transnational family stage. The pre-transnational stage refers in retrospect to the time of decision making process about migration, the transnational family stage is about the time of transnational family separation due to migration and the nature of family life during this time while the post-transnational family stage considers the time after family reunification which in my thesis is limited only to the reunification in Ireland.An important part of the thesis is a chapter that is dedicated to the role of Polish Church in Ireland and the correlation of migrant’s religiosity and their gender roles
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Traditional Role in a Non-Traditional Family: A Case Study Based on Transnational Migration of Polish Wives and Mothers
No full textPłeć kulturowa oraz wynikające z niej role i relacje rodzinne w znacznym stopniu kształtują życie rodzinne polskich rodzin doświadczających migracji transnarodowych. Tradycyjnie realizowane role genderowe związane z byciem matką i żoną kształtują doświadczenia i postawy życiowe polskich emigrantek w Irlandii, począwszy od decyzji o migracji, poprzez relacje członków rodziny w trakcie separacji, aż po reunifikację rodziny. Próba kontynuacji realizacji tradycyjnej roli w rodzinie pomimo tejże separacji jest wyrazem prób zachowania poczucia kobiecej tożsamości i prowizorycznej władzy kobiet w sferze domowej.Family gender roles and family relationships influence the lives of Polish transnational families to a great extent. Traditionally adopted gender roles connected with being a mother and wife largely shape the experience and attitudes of Polish female migrants in Ireland: starting with the decision about the migration, through family relations during the separation period, and ending up at the point of reunion. Attempts to continue to perform the traditional role of a mother and wife in the face of the transnational migration is an effort to preserve Polish women’s sense of identity as well as provisional power within their families
Formalny aktywizm imigrantek i uchodźczyń w Polsce. Studium przypadku Fundacji Kobiet Wędrownych
Full text linkOver the last few decades Gdańsk has been a destination for immigrants and a home to people from all around the world who chose it as a place to pursue their dreams and aspirations. However, in a migratory environment a sense of identity as a migrant or a refugee woman may become a guiding identity and even obscure other forms of identity; as such, it can lead to the development of activist strategies that are primarily based on foreignness. The existence of formal migrant organisations is one of the factors that show how advanced the process of migrant self-organisation is. The types of organisations, in turn, provide information on how immigrant communities organise themselves and what needs they respond to, also these which are gender based. The strength, coherence and field of activity of migrant organisations may substantially influence the level of integration of migrants, their sense of identification, as well as the degree of their participation in the host society. Therefore, it is important to consider the motives behind the creation of female migrant’s self-organisations and the range of values and identities that their activities refer to. In this article, the research on the Wandering Women Foundation helps me to understand how and why migrant women’s self-organisation emerge in Poland. W ciągu ostatnich kilkudziesięciu lat Gdańsk stał się punktem docelowym dla ludzi z całego świata, którzy wybrali go jako miejsce realizacji swoich marzeń i aspiracji. Jednak status migrantki czy uchodźczyni może stać się tożsamością przewodnią, a nawet przesłaniać inne formy tożsamości i jako takie może prowadzić do rozwoju strategii aktywistycznych, które opierają się przede wszystkim na obcości. Istnienie formalnych organizacji imigranckich jest jednym z czynników, które pokazują, jak zaawansowany jest proces samoorganizacji migrantów, a rodzaje tworzonych organizacji dostarczają informacji na temat tego, jak organizują się społeczności imigranckie i jakie są ich potrzeby. Siła, spójność i pole działania organizacji imigranckich może mieć istotny wpływ na poziom integracji migrantów, ich poczucie identyfikacji, jak również na stopień ich uczestnictwa w społeczeństwie przyjmującym. Dlatego ważne jest, aby lepiej przyjrzeć się motywom stojącym za samoorganizacją migrantek oraz wartościom i tożsamościom, do których odnoszą się w swoich działaniach. Niniejsze studium Fundacji Kobiet Wędrownych pozwala nakreślić przyczyny powstawania formalnych kobiecych organizacji imigranckich w Polsce
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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