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Depression of the Cities: Key to Healing

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Lidin K.
Prace Komisji Geografii Przemysłu Polskiego Towarzystwa Geograficznego
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2015
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vol. 29
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issue 2
171-179
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The problem of search of an authenticity of the cities looks very actual and draws attention of numerous researchers. In the article the analogy between the human person and the city in this problem is used. For the person, as well as for the city, awareness of own identity is necessary to resist depressive tendencies. It is shown that symptoms of depression of the person are similar to the ones for depression of the cities. The identity of the city necessary for opposition of a depression is offered to be looked for in two planes – historical and geographical (to be looked for in historical and geographical plane). The historical plane is made by local myths and legends of the city and its inhabitants. The geographical plane of identity is concentrated on features of relief, climate, flora and fauna of that region in which the city is located.
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Conceptualizing In-Text “Kshetra”: Postcolonial Allahabad’s Cultural Geography in Neelum Saran Gour’s Allahabad Aria and Invisible Ink

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Das C., Tripathi P.
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
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2021
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issue 11
389-403
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Literary renditions of cities have always gravitated towards the spatial imagination and its ethical counterpart outside the textual space. This paper explores the multicultural geography of the North Indian city Allahabad (recently renamed Prayagraj) observed through Neelum Saran Gour’s postcolonial narratives Allahabad Aria and Invisible Ink, projecting the narrative alignment of spatial aesthetics and cultural ethics. Interrogating the spatial dimensions of a “narrative world” within narrative theory (Ryan) and its interdisciplinary crossover with cultural geography (Sauer; Mitchell; Anderson et al.), the article seeks to examine Gour’s literary city not simply as an objective homogeneous representation, but as a “kshetra” of spatio-cultural cosmos of lived traditions, memories, experiences and collective attitudes of its people, in the context of E. V. Ramakrishnan’s theoretical reflections. The article proposes new possibilities of adapting the Indian concept “kshetra” to spatial literary studies; its aim is also to suggest a new source of knowledge about the city of Allahabad through a community introspection of “doing culture” in the texts, bringing into view people’s shared experiences, beliefs, religious practices and traditions as offshoots of the postcolonial ethos. The article aims to re-contextualize the city’s longstanding multicultural ethics in the contemporary times of crisis, which may affect a shift in the city’s relevance: from regional concern to large-scale significance within ethnically diverse South Asian countries and beyond.
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The crucial and contested concept of the endonym/exonym divide

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Jordan P.
Onomastica
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2021
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vol. 65
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issue 1
23-37
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Paul Woodman has called it the “great toponymic divide”, but the endonym/exonym distinction is not a concept confined solely to toponymy, it can be transferred to all name categories, where the name used by insiders may differ from the name used by outsiders, e.g., to ethnonyms, anthro ponyms, names of institutions, where we frequently meet, for instance nicknames and derogative designa- tions used by outsiders. But there is no doubt that this divide has its focus on toponymy, since it corresponds there to two basic human attitudes: (1) to the distinction between ‛mine’ and ‛yours’, ‛ours’ and ‛theirs’, and (2) to territoriality, the desire to own a place, which appears at all levels of the construction of human community  - from the level of the family up to that of nations. Thus, it has always a political, social, and juridical meaning and is frequently a reason for dispute and conflict. However, even after long and intensive discussions, e.g., in the UNGEGN Working Group of Exonyms, to date we can still see rather divergent approaches to this divide. There is the linguistic approach regarding the endonym and the exonym rather as poles of a continuum, with various intermediary stages. Alternatively, there is the cultural-geographical approach that accepts no other criteria than the spatial relation between the name-using community and the geographical feature denoted by the name. The article elaborates on these items, mainly on the basis of the discussions and publications of the UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms since 2002.
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“[…] Non urbs, tamen urbibus ipsa major.” The Image of The Hague in the Dutch Literature and Art of the 17thand 18thCentury

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Polkowski M.
Werkwinkel
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2015
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vol. 10
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issue 2
37-66
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Although in the early-modern period The Hague was not officially a city, its identity was based on specifically urban features. During the 17th and 18th century, its ambiguous status was explored by the authors of verse urban encomia and prose descriptiones urbium. In this article, the presentation of The Hague will be first discussed on the example of Caspar Barlaeus’ Latin poem “Haga”, and Constantijn Huygens’ Dutch encomium “’s Gravenhage” from the Dorpen [Villages] cycle of epigrams. Then, the image of The Hague will be examined in the context of an allegorical representation by Jan Caspar Philips in Jacob de Riemer’s Beschryving van ‘s Graven-hage [Description of The Hague, 1730]. The concluding remarks address the question of how the transformation of the status of The Hague undertaken by these writers and artists may be understood in the context of the literary-historical geography of the Northern Renaissance which has been a special subject of research by Professor Andrzej Borowski.
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Reconceptualizing Eastern Europe: Toward a Common Ethos

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Bursztyka P.
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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2023
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vol. 7
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issue 3
67-102
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The aim of this essay is a philosophical reconstruction of the category of Eastern Europe (as topographical and ethical, and only by implication a geographical one). This will proceed in three steps. First, deconstruction of the category in question by exposing its colonialist and post-colonialist origins. Second, projection of a new cultural geography of Eastern Europe. The main criteria of which are: 1) belonging to the European community of values, 2) being directly and permanently exposed to a paradoxical cultural formation, neither European nor Asian, which poses a constant threat to all neighboring states and nations – Russia. In the third step, Eastern Europe is presented as a specifically determined way of living, experiencing, and self-understanding, localized in particular space(s); that is, a particular ethos rooted in a concrete topos/topoi. This ethos has been driven by the ideals of freedom, equality, cultural diversity, and the sovereignty of the people; and actualized in a kind of cultural flexibility, hybridity, and polyphony. However, this ethos has never been something given. It has been gradually developing throughout its dramatic history, and this was not only a history of those sublime ideals (and their partial actualization), but also of their real and brutal negation. That is why this ethos is grounded in a constantly renewed activity of self-questioning and self-searching, in a persistently recurrent will of self-determination; and that is also why Eastern Europe cannot be enclosed in a single narrative, but it expresses itself through different and often competing stories.
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W kierunku „miejsca”. Budzenie uśpionego potencjału wsi

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Wójcik M.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica
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2017
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issue 28
5-16
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A case study of local communities developing good practices in the field of self-development, social self-organisation, reconstruction of the local and wider, regional, identity of, including the identity of the „place” is an important way to discover the essence of the social world, as well as to attempt to understand the specific features of „rurality” in its new contexts and interpretations. This helps develop the dialectical relationship between what is being discovered, namely the local community, and the discoverer, a person aware of and involved in the attempt to understand the mechanism of social change. In 2016, a group of researchers from different scientific centres undertook to write a work entitled Tożsamość i „miejsce”. Budzenie uśpionego potencjału wsi (Identity and „place”. The countryside awaking). The basis for the selection of rural settlements from a large group was therefore a subjective decision of the people, who want to share their emotions and experiences in contact with a specific local community in its living environment. The descriptions of the specificity and uniqueness of the village presented here stem from team members’ need to share numerous thoughts and impressions, and are a presentation of good practices in local development. These works are a kind of affirmation of local rural environments, an original idea for interpretation based on Humanities Research, including a look at the processes that make up the contemporary village through the prism of „place”.
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Studium przypadku społeczności lokalnych rozwijających dobre praktyki w zakresie samorozwoju, samoorganizacji społecznej, odbudowy tożsamości lokalnej i szerzej regionalnej, w tym tożsamości „miejsca” jest ważnym sposobem w odkrywaniu istoty społecznego świata i w próbie zrozumienia swoistych cech „wiejskości” w jej nowych kontekstach i interpretacjach. W ten sposób rozwija się dialektyczny związek pomiędzy tym co odkrywane, czyli społecznością lokalną a odkrywającym, tj. świadomym i zaangażowanym w próbę zrozumienia mechanizmu społecznej zmiany. W 2016 roku grupa badaczy z różnych krajowych ośrodków podjęła się napisania pracy pt. Tożsamość i „miejsce”. Budzenie uśpionego potencjału wsi. Podstawą doboru osiedli wiejskich z dużej grupy była zatem subiektywna decyzja osób, które pragną podzielić się swymi emocjami i przeżyciami w kontakcie z określoną lokalną społecznością w jej środowisku życia. Prezentowane tu opisy specyfiki i wyjątkowości wsi wynikają z potrzeby przekazania przez członków zespołu wielu przemyśleń i wrażeń, są prezentacją dobrych praktyk rozwoju lokalnego. Prace te są swego rodzaju afirmacją lokalnych wiejskich środowisk, oryginalnym pomysłem na interpretację opierającą się na humanistycznym wzorcu badawczym, w tym spojrzenie na procesy tworzące współczesną wieś przez pryzmat „miejsca”.
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Proza polskiego renesansu wobec antropologii humanistycznej, czyli negocjo¬wanie pozycji w świecie układanym na nowo

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Śnieżko D.
Roczniki Humanistyczne
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2021
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vol. 69
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issue 1
9-25
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This article is an attempt to take Polish renaissance humanism as a moderate and independent modernisation project, including its references to the anthropological tradition, the variants of  the myth of the golden age, the issues of language, as well as to the reconfiguration of the map of the world that was being carried out at that time. This paper also remarks on those important motifs of humanism that were not taken up (e.g. the concept of melancholia generosa) and those matters that were especially stressed by Polish authors, primarily, the emancipatory struggle to assert the identity and special character of Eastern Europe.
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Artykuł jest próbą spojrzenia na polski humanizm renesansowy jako umiarkowany i samodzielny projekt modernizacyjny, w jego negocjacyjnych odniesieniach do tradycji antropologicznej, odmian mitu wieku złotego, zagadnień języka, a także dokonującej się wówczas rekonfiguracji mapy świata – z uwzględnieniem tego, co z oferty europejskiej nie zostało zasadniczo podjęte (np. melancholia generosa), jak również tego, na co został położony szczególny nacisk. W tej ostatniej sprawie mowa przede wszystkim o emancypacyjnym dążeniu do wyraźnego zaznaczenia tożsamości i specyfiki regionu Europy Wschodniej.
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