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When the Local Is Transnational: Time-Space, Conflict and Community (Re)construction Within Polish-Jewish Émigrés' Diaspora
Full text linkThis paper looks at the interrelationship of “local” and “global” in experiences of people who left Poland following antisemitic purges and politics of racial hatred carried under the guise of government-sponsored “anti-Zionist” campaign of March 1968. Following student protests, legitimacy crisis of the ruling Polish United Workers’ Party, factional struggles in the Party, and facing the worsening of a situation of the Jewish minority (at least since the 1967 “six day war”), up to 20 thousand Jews or Poles of Jewish descent left Poland stigmatized in an atmosphere of “symbolic pogrom” (Stola 2000: 149)1. Forced to discard their Polish citizenship, break community and family ties and displace their daily routines and life plans, these émigrés or refugees faced not only typical migrant realities of struggling for their social, economic, political and cultural status in new countries (and many of them would later change their place again), but also questions of how to survive as a community, how to maintain social bonds and a sense of dignity in a changed situation. Based on author’s empirical research2, the article is both a complex yet limited monographic endeavor and an attempt to show what types of stakes are significant when one is compelled to think in terms of identity. The author analyzes how identity and community reconstruction endeavors are structured by logics of historical events, political-cultural definitions of loyalty and belonging, as well as contemporary diasporic conditions. While situated in spatial/structural and temporal contexts, these practices are seen as spontaneous learning processes responding to tensions between individual and community and between communities. By using critical concepts of cultural sociology, the author tries to evaluate both possibilities and inevitable oppressive effects of the particular time-space and notions of community
"Któż tam będzie wisiał?" – Bunt chłopski w miejskiej wyobraźni
Full text link“Who’s going to dangle there?” – Peasant revolt in urban imagination. On the Gore album by R.U.T.A. and on its reception
The author presents a review of a recent album “Gore: Songs of Rebellion and Misery from 16th to 20th Century” by a Polish punk rock / hardcore group R.U.T.A. The album, which combines traditional peasant lyrics with modern arrangements and folk instruments, has received acclaim from both fans and critics, while the band declared their commitment to struggles of contemporary progressive social movements. The author analyses the lyrics situating his reflection in sociological-historical framework to discuss realities of peasants’ lives and revolts during the second serfdom in early modern Poland. The author interprets the musical form of the songs as “punk-rock assimilation” of folklore themes. The final section contains critical reflection on the album’s marketing strategy and reception with the key dissected categories being “rebellion” and “authenticity.
On “Modernity and the Holocaust” – inspirations and critique after three decades
No full textThe article discusses the main theses of Zygmunt Bauman’s book Modernity and the Holocaust, the contexts of its writing and its early critical reception in the 1990s. As an introduction to the issue’s theme, it focuses on the proposals for a contemporary interpretation of Bauman’s work put forward by the authors of the articles published in this issue of Studia Litteraria et Historica. In the final section, the author proposes a reading of Modernity and the Holocaust in relation to educational issues raised in the 1960s by Theodor W. Adorno
Wyzysk ideologiczny, tożsamość i wyzwania pedagogiki emancypacyjnej
Full text linkCel artykułu sprowadza się do przedstawienia zarysu koncepcji, mogącej służyć jako narzędzie w analizie „pracy ideologii” w niektórych kontekstach społecznych. Propozycja ta koncentruje się na ukazaniu związku pomiędzy zagadnieniami odnoszącymi się do ideologii jako praktyki w ramach hierarchicznego porządku społeczno-ekonomicznego a kwestią tożsamości i opartej na niej polityki (tę ostatnią rozumie się tu w szerokim sensie konstruowania, mobilizowania i aktywizowania podmiotowości w celu realizacji interesów). Ukazując wybrane historyczne przykłady zjawisk, do których opisu zastosowano tu termin wyzysk ideologiczny, autor stawia pytania o socjologiczny sens takiego ich ujmowania. Jako egzemplifi kację wybrano zwłaszcza rasizm oraz niektóre inne odmiany ideologii bazujących na tożsamościowej mobilizacji zbiorowej w polityce prawicowego populizmu w okresach kryzysu, w warunkach nierówności i na tle niepokojów społecznych. W końcowej części rozważań tę propozycję teoretyczną umieszczono w kontekście problematyki edukacji. Sferę edukacji traktuje się tutaj z jednej strony jako jeden z instytucjonalnych kontekstów tworzenia, reprodukcji i działania ideologii. Z drugiej strony edukację postrzega się jako narzędzie oporu społecznego, nieodłączne polityce emancypacji. Tę ostatnią autor rozumie jako proces konstruowania względnie autonomicznej podmiotowości zdolnej podważyć istniejące społeczno-ideologiczne struktury władzy i dominacji/podporządkowania oraz znieść mechanizmy przeciwdziałające demokratyzacji i egalitaryzacji stosunków społecznych. Autor przyjmuje założenie, że edukacja zorientowana na emancypację stanowi jeden z warunków urzeczywistnienia historycznych i egzystencjalnych aspiracji zwłaszcza tych grup i kategorii społecznych, które w największym stopniu doświadczają deprywacji, marginalizacji i alienacji w ramach istniejącego porządku
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
A New Diaspora Space: Transnational Connections Among Polish Jews after the 1968 Antisemitic Campaign and Exile
Full text linkThe article discusses transnational dimensions of the aftermath of Poland’s March 1968 antisemitic campaign, which resulted in the exile of approximately half of the Jewish population of the country at that time. It highlights some typical aspects of the diasporic experience, sequencing them diachronically – early trajectories, e.g. coping with family separation, then the maintenance of community through organized reunions and global communication, and attempts at representation – and offers an overview of the networking efforts in terms of reintegration processes that can be seen as a collective response to the stigma of antisemitism and national exclusion. The article focuses on the experiences of the “March ’68 generation,” that is, those Polish Jews who were raised after the Holocaust and were young adults or teenagers at the time of the Jewish exodus from Poland in the late 1960s. The author explores autobiographic narratives, looking at how post-1968 diasporic experiences were remembered and interpreted and what significance exiles and non-exiles attached to these episodes of their lives. The inclusion of the non-émigré perspectives into the diasporic framework broadens the picture of responses to antisemitism by those affected. The core data come from three series of biographical interviews with émigrés and non-émigrés taken in 2001–2023, supplemented by selections from émigré press and other autobiographical accounts. The triangulation of research data was applied in a qualitative analysis of personally narrated life stories and of texts that reflect collective efforts at maintaining ties among people for whom the 1967–1968 antisemitic campaign, forced emigration, and the resulting separation were significant biographic and community changes. The article is a contribution to the historical sociology of Polish Jewry spanning the period of five decades, from the late 1960s political crisis in Poland’s communism to the 50th anniversary of the “March ’68 events” in 2018
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
Populizm antyislamski a socjalizacja polityczna w kontekście polskim
Full text linkArtykuł przedstawia propozycję ramy analitycznej dla zjawiska islamofobii w szerszym kontekście politycznym. Jako główne kategorie służą do tego: pojęcie populizmu – interpretowane w świetle politologicznych ujęć radykalizmu lub ekstremizmu prawicowego i jego związków z rasizmem (populizm etnocentryczny), a także pojęcie socjalizacji politycznej jako kształtowania świadomości, wdrażania w kulturę polityczną i interpelacji do zbiorowej podmiotowości. W oparciu o tę ramę podejmuję analizę roli populizmu antyislamskiego w socjalizacji młodego pokolenia w Polsce w powiązaniu z innymi roszczeniami polityczno-kulturowymi. Po omówieniu wybranych wątków dyskursu antyislamskiego i osadzeniu go w szerszym konglomeracie ideologicznym prawicy prezentuję zabiegi agend socjalizacyjnych polskich nacjonalistów, które służą formowaniu nowego pokolenia politycznego. W końcowej części artykułu analizuję obserwowaną podmiotowość przez pryzmat socjopedagogicznych koncepcji oporu i socjalizacji krytycznej, a także w świetle zagadnienia funkcjonalnego związku populistyczno-rasistowskiej podmiotowości z kapitalizmem
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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