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2008 | 1 | 2 | 99-107

Article title

Belarusian-Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands: Phenomenological Analysis

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LT
Baltarusių, Lenkų IR Lietuvių Pasienio Ruožai: Fenomenologinė Analizė

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The paper presents opportunities of the phenomenological approach towards the Belarusian-Polish-Lithuanian borderlands. Such approach is based upon the principles of understanding of social reality elaborated in phenomenology (E. Husserl, M. Heidegger) and phenomenological sociology (A. Schutz) and presents a different view of the borderlands as compared with the traditional (classical) sociology. The social and cultural space of the borderlands is reflected in the modes of distance (close - distant), temporality (now - then) and the "presence of the Other" (local - stranger), as well as their interrelated modifications. It helps to understand the degree of the acquisition / alienation of various cultural and political phenomena of the historical past and the present-day life. The historical events and personalities, as well as existing monuments of culture in the borderlands are reflected in "our / alien" dichotomy. This results in the representation of the identities of the borderlands as liquid and plural constructs and the matters of interpretation.
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Apmąstomos fenomenologinio metodo galimybės, tyrinėjant baltarusių, lenkų ir lietuvių pasienio ruožus. Šis metodas grindžiamas socialinės tikrovės pažinimo principais, plėtojamais fenomenologijoje (E. Husserlis, M. Heideggeris) ir fenomenologinėje sociologijoje (A. Schutzas). Fenomenologinės sociologijos metodu gauti tyrinėjimo rezultatai skiriasi nuo gautųjų tradicinės (klasikinės) sociologijos metodais. Socialinė ir kultūrinė pasienio ruožų erdvė apmąstoma iš vietos (artimas - tolimas), laiko (dabar - tada), "kito akivaizdos" (vietinis - ateivis) ir jų santykių modifikacijų perspektyvų. Tai padeda geriau suprasti įvairių istorinei praeičiai ir nūdieniam gyvenimui būdingų kultūrinių bei politinių reiškinių panašumus ir skirtumus. Istorinius įvykius ir asmenybes, kaip ir tam tikrus kultūros paminklus, aptinkamus pasienio ruožuose, straipsnio autorius aptaria remdamasis dichotomijasavas - svetimas.Prieinama prie išvados, kad pasienio ruožų tapatumai gali būti traktuojami kaip tam tikri kaitūs ir sudėtiniai konstruktai, reikalingi filosofinės, sociologinės ir istorinės interpretacijų.

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1

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2

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99-107

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Contributors

  • Department of Culturology, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Ozheshko St., 22, 230023 Grodno, Belarus

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