118 research outputs found
Geografia wyborcza Litwy ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Akcji Wyborczej Polaków na Litwie
No full textThe economic history of North Korea against the background of geopolitical changes in East Asia
No full textNot obvious indeed : images of God in Marcin Świetlicki’s poetry
No full textReflecting on Marcin Świetlicki’s collection of poems Non-Obvious. Religious Poems [Nieoczywiste. Wiersze religijne] (selected by Wojciech Bonowicz), the author undertook an analysis of the category of religiousness which is present in this poetry, in particular its non-obviousness in the iconographic perspective. The reader of that poetry is pushed out of joints of the former experiences of the Polish religious poetry, since their place is taken by ambivalence and uncertainty of God’s images. The lyrical "I" experiences uncertainty in the sphere of religion and faces the image of God as only a remnant of the past
Political Geography in the Time of a New Hundred Years' War: 1914-2022 and Beyond
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Village names as a source of knowledge of the past: toponyms in the Olszynka Valley in the Ciężkowickie Foothills
No full textThe Olszynka valley is located in the Ciężkowicke Foothills on the border of the Lesser Poland voivodeship (district of Tarnów) and Subcarpathian voivodeship (district of Jasło). In the early Middle Ages this area was located on the borders of the Kingdom of Poland and only since the mid-14th century with the seizure of Red Ruthenia by king Casimir the Great t became the subject of intense settlement colonization. In the Olszynka valley there are located several villages with names very meaningful in the context of the past of the local environment and local communities. The names of villages concentrated at the mouth of the valley are rather related to human activity and culture (Siepietnica, Święcany), while in the upper part of the valley they generally refer to the characteristics of the natural environment existing there in 14th century (Szerzyny, Ołpiny, Olszyny, Żurowa, Czermna). This situation could be explained by the chronology of the settlement processes. Especially intriguing in this area are such toponyms as Siepietnica (name derived from the profession performed by the local population in the days preceding the 14th-century colonization), Ołpiny and Żurowa (indicating certain features of the natural environment in the 14th century and at the same time presence of some German settlers) and Czermna (related not only to some features of the local environment but also to the Ruthenian origin of its owners in the 2nd half of the 14th century).Dolina Olszynki położona jest w granicach Pogórza Ciężkowickiego na pograniczu województwa małopolskiego (powiat tarnowski) i podkarpackiego (powiat jasielski). We wczesnym średniowieczu obszar ten znajdował się na rubieżach państwach polskiego i dopiero od połowy wieku XIV wraz z przyłączeniem do Królestwa Polskiego Rusi Czerwonej stał się miejscem intensywnej akcji osadniczej. W granicach doliny Olszynki (dopływ Ropy) znajduje się kilka wsi o nazwach wiele mówiących o przeszłości miejscowego środowiska przyrodniczego i społeczności lokalnych. Nazwy miejscowości w dolnym biegu rzeki związane są raczej z człowiekiem, z jego działalnością i kulturą (Siepietnica, Święcany), podczas gdy w średnim i górnym z reguły odwołują się do cech środowiska przyrodniczego istniejących w chwili lokacji osad (Szerzyny, Ołpiny, Olszyny, Żurowa, Czermna). Sytuację tę można tłumaczyć chronologią procesów osadniczych. Szczególnie intrygujące na tym obszarze są m.in. takie toponimy, jak Siepietnica (nazwa pochodząca od zawodu wykonywanego przez miejscową ludność w czasach poprzedzających XIV-wieczną kolonizację), Ołpiny i Żurowa (wskazujące na określone cechy środowiska przyrodniczego w XIV wieku i jednocześnie na osadnictwo z udziałem ludności niemieckiej) oraz Czermna (toponim wskazujący na motywację przyrodniczą nazwy i związki właścicieli wsi za Kazimierza Wielkiego z Rusią Czerwoną)
BOOK REVIEW: Marcin W. Solarz (ed.), ‟Atlas of Poland’s Political Geography, Geopolitical Atlas”, 2018, University of Warsaw
No full textMarcin Wojciech Solarz is a professor of Geography and vice-dean at the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies from the University of Warsaw. He is the author and editor of several important works in political geography and global studies, like “The Language of Global Development: A Misleading Geography” and “New Geographies of the Globalized World”, both of them in the prestigious Routledge. His new recent project, under the national patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, was dedicated to the political geography of the Polish state, one century after rebirth of modern Poland (1918-2018) and thirty years of regaining democracy (1988-2018).
The book combines political geographical analysis with the geopolitical consideration of one of the largest countries in the European Union, but also provides an excellent review of the current geography and policy of Eastern Europe, through a wide range of social, political and economic indicators for countries surrounding or related to Poland. The atlas has an introductory part, focusing on the original ideas about the state, its boundaries and location attributes and on the geopolitical concepts that establish Poland\u27s role and position in Europe. These are followed by a wide range of maps, from political to economic and cultural representations, in an outstanding cartographic condition.
Political Geography in Poland is one of the most visible in the scientific literature of this part of Europe. With a slightly longer history than the modern Polish state, the concepts developed in Polish political geography and geopolitics were strongly influenced by the location between two great European powers, Germany and Russia, and between Western and Eastern civilizations. The location is so important, that almost the entire book and analysis revolves around the concept. This position has been recognized as both a “geographical and historical fate” and a “director of life”, giving the location the role of resource or constraint. This advantages or disadvantages have been accentuated by the lack of natural barriers to the East or to the West of Poland, which makes this space more open to change, but also more vulnerable. At the same time, Poland was viewed not in the middle of Russia and Germany, but in the center of Europe, with a tumultuous history. This history has been marked by the status of a regional power, of a partitioned state, two times in two hundred years, and of a recent new regional emergent economy. The relative location gave Poland the role of an invasion route and a “barometer” of power relations between Germany and Russia: the state became a regional power when the two designated states were disorganized, defeated or eroded by internal conflicts or has disappeared at the time of the conflict or agreement between the two. Location has produced history and evolution is a product of location, between the centre and the periphery, as the margins of expanding empires
Poland - a few remarks on the development of its borders, territorial consistency and changes in its geopolitical position between 1667 and 2014
No full textThe article analyzes Polish borders, territory and geopolitical position during the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Republics, including communist period. It argues that the most coherent territorially is Poland in the post-war borders. From a political-geographical perspective it assesses the contemporary western Polish border positively, and the eastern border negatively. It draws attention to the importance of the degree of integration of the international environment around Poland for its security and sovereignty, arguing that so far it has been better for Poland to have more neighbors than less.W artykule przeprowadzono analizę kształtu polskich granic i terytorium państwa dla
okresów Rzeczpospolitej szlacheckej, II RP z okresu międzywojenego, Polski ludowej
oraz współczesnej, a także ocenę położenia geopolitycznego. Wykazano, że terytorialnie
największą spójnością cechuje się Polska w granicach powojennych. Z polityczno-geograficznego punktu widzenia autor obecną zachodnią granicę Polski ocenia pozytywnie,
natomiast granicę wschodnią negatywnie. Zwraca uwagę na znaczenie stopnia
konsolidacji międzynarodowego otoczenia Polski dla jej bezpieczeństwa i suwerenności,
argumentując, że do tej pory sytuacja była korzystniejsza dla Polski, kiedy miała
większą liczbę sąsiadów
The communist world from dawn till dusk. A political geography perspective
No full textThe article presents the territorial evolution of the communist world from its beginning up until the present day. It argues that the communist world was created in 1917 and that it has survived the end of the Cold War. It shows various ways of understanding its nature in the past as well as in present times and shows the variability and ambiguity of the communist world, including its territorial dimension, thereby encouraging reflection and discussion
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