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We Just Want to Lead Ordinary Lives – Internal Con icts and Politics of Disintegration in Post-Disaster Indigenous Village in Taiwan

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Kot-Gilewicz O.

Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology

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2016

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vol. 7

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issue 14

71-85

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This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork to present an account of the current situation of one of the indigenous villages of Taiwan in the face of a natural disaster related interference of the state and non-government organisations, and the struggle of its inhabitants to maintain cultural integrity and socio-political independence. After Morakot typhoon hit the island of Taiwan in August 2009 causing numerous landslides, several indigenous villages including those situated in the mountains' interior, were permanently relocated to the vicinity of the plains and mainstream Han Chinese society. In the process of relocation the government as well as non-government organizations were involved. To the villagers who took an active part in the negotiations process, the new relocation site became an opportunity to unite most of the previously scattered members of the community However the conflicts instigated during the negotiations led several families to refuse relocation. In order to survive in the abandoned village they have returned to traditional mode of subsistence. In their eyes they have become the protectors of their group's traditional territory and sole guardians of the village. Hence by the means of traditional and state provided socio-political structures the villagers have successfully blocked government as well as non-government projects regarding the village, which led to shift of internal authority Through this experience the villagers came to realize increasing sociocultural differences between the mainstream Han Chinese society and their own heritage as well as growing distance between the inhabitants of the original village and the residents of the relocated settlement. Their experience led them to a firm conviction about traditional knowledge to be the guarantor of prosperity and solution to any problems.

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Bioetické reflexie pohrôm a katastrof – nové výzvy pre súčasnú etiku

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Komenská K.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2016

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vol. 64

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issue 5

773-782

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In this paper the author tries to introduce a new field of ethical reflections, the field of disaster ethics, while specially concerned with the questions of bioethics. To this end, the author distinguishes two main goals of the paper. Firstly, a definition of disaster is presented to readers, drawing attention to the specific features of such events and their differences from the day-to-day situations. The distinctive characteristic of disaster bioethics is stated, which leads to a formulation of the need to ethically evaluate actions resulting from a disaster (and pre- and post-disaster) from a different perspective. The second goal is to analyse potential problems which arise from applying traditional ethical frameworks to this context. As a solution, the author presents a hybrid ethical theory, the ethics of social consequences, as a form of non-utilitarian consequential theory

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Disaster Issues in Non-Utilitarian Consequentialism (Ethics of Social Consequences)

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Gluchman V.

Human Affairs

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2015

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vol. 26

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issue 1

52-62

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The ethics of social consequences is a means of satisficing non-utilitarian consequentialism that can be used to approach disaster issues. The primary values in the ethics of social consequences are humanity, human dignity and moral rights, and these are developed and realized to achieve positive social consequences. The secondary values found in the ethics of social consequences include justice, responsibility, moral duty and tolerance. Their role and purpose is given by their ability to help achieve and realize moral good. Fair treatment within moral issues stems from applying primary as well as secondary values. The nature of these values cannot be determined exclusively in ordinary circumstances. However, in extraordinary circumstances (disasters), not all the requirements relating to the value structure of the ethics of social consequences need be considered in its entirety. In extraordinary circumstances, values are prioritised and realized. Primary values are realized prior to secondary ones. When prioritizing primary values, the realization of positive social consequences, or at least minimizing the negative social consequences, takes priority over other primary values. In disaster bioethics especially, it is often necessary to find a way to minimize the negative social consequences; thus, actions where positive social consequences are prevalent are preferred.

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Risk Management as a Tool of the Civil Emergency Planning in the United Kingdom — Comparison With the Polish Approach

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Zwęgliński T., Arculeo C.

Internal Security

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2020

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vol. 12(2)

55-82

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‘Europe which protects’ is a very important postulate which is presented by politicians, however, it is well known that the full responsibility for the safety and security of the citizens is the domain of each sovereign country. Therefore, international organisations, such as NATO and the EU, associating countries in one, more or less integrated structure, have only a supportive and facilitating role to this highly important process. This basically means that close cooperation between individual countries is a highly important matter in ensuring the vital aim of citizen protection, especially against major threats and hazards, triggered or impacting in the border context. Such cooperation is impossible as long as those nations do not know and understand each other’s systems. Furthermore, in gaining this understanding of the respective systems, the opportunity exists to learn from each other by implementing the best practices of each other’s realities. The article is an effort to contribute to this learning process by comparison of the risk management processes being a part of broader crisis and disaster management systems in the United Kingdom and Poland. The study was conducted by reviewing and analysing formal documentation and guidance as well as selected literature in this respect. Furthermore, the findings are based on many years of the authors’ experience working in these two systems, reinforced by hundreds of discussions with national experts in the field. As supportive input, selected results of a survey on civil emergency planning in Poland are also presented. The two surveyed systems revealed many similarities in the processes in place in both countries. In general, the purpose of their existence is the same, however, in some cases, there are different terms used or they vary slightly due to organisational or administrative reasons. Both adaptations and developments based on the experiences of the other system are possible, and sometimes even recommended.

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Social workers in times of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic. First Polish experiences

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Wilk S., Szpoczek M.

Praca Socjalna

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2020

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vol. 35(2)

84-105

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The spread of the epidemic of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the announcement of the state of epidemic emergency determined the necessity of the changes in the functioning of the social welfare units. This article is an analysis of the literature sources related to the functioning of the social workers during natural disasters, that have served as the basis for conclusions. In addition, twelve pilot interviews with social workers were conducted. Previously the institutions were not prepared for such a threat, did not have procedures nor regulations and means of self-protection. In the times of the epidemic the feminization of the profession of a social worker and the fact of the necessity of taking care of the children of the age of up to 8 years, resulted in the staff shortages. The new reality created the necessity to reorganize the work system of the social assistance units especially in the area of the safety regulations that is to say teleworking, rotational work and shift work, limitations in dealing with the clients and fieldwork, conducting community interviews by phone. Working at residential care facilities, which were closed to protect their residents from infection, has become of particular nature. Due to the epidemic situation, normative acts regarding benefits for persons threatened by the infection of SARS-CoV-2 virus, implementation of assistance for persons experiencing violence or support for people in crisis of homelessness are constantly changing. The text discusses in detail five factors hindering the performance of professional activities for employees of social assistance units: organizational and legal, physical, interpersonal, ethical and psychological. Finally, it is essential to start working by applying the method of organizing local communities (and using social capital), as its absence will be a barrier to the development of Polish municipalities after the epidemic.

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Ethical Decision Making During Disasters

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Kalajtzidis J.

Human Affairs

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2015

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vol. 26

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issue 1

18-25

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Neither in theory nor in practice does there exist a single model of decision making. It is very difficult to identify a model, or models, which would be most useful during and after a disaster. Within the disaster timeframe (a difficult and complex situation), specific moral dilemmas arise. All the decision making theories tend to be associated with different assumptions about human nature, the quality of the decisions made and the manner in which they are made. Different assumptions may result in different tools being used and subsequently different consequences. The paper will provide a general introduction to the ethical decision making model, and will suggest two ways in which decisions in ethics might be made. The paper will try to deepen the discussion, and suggest answers to questions such as which type of ethical decision making is better in a specific situation such as a disaster? Is there any need to use a different decision making model (from an ethical point of view) in a disaster than in another event? Nonetheless, the article does not provide explicit solutions to these questions, since providing them would require further investigation than is the aim of this paper.

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Ideal and Nonideal Moral Theory for Disaster Bioethics

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O’Mathúna D.

Human Affairs

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2015

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vol. 26

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issue 1

8-17

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Moral theory has generally focused on resolving ethical dilemmas by identifying ethically sound options. Whether the focus is on consequences, duties, principles or virtues, ethical cases are often approached in ways that assume morally sound solutions can be found and followed. Such ‘ideal morality’ assumes that moral goodness is always possible, leaving people confident they have done the right thing. Such an approach becomes inadequate in disaster settings where any good solution is often difficult to see. This paper examines recent work on nonideal moral theory as a useful model for disaster bioethics. This approach views moral dilemmas as situations where no choice is ideal and every option involves some element of unavoidable wrongdoing. Rather than straining for ideal answers, this approach acknowledges that sometimes the lesser of two evils is the best that can be done. Such situations inevitably lead to feelings of regret or guilt, commonly encountered in discussions of disaster bioethics. This paper explores the practical implications of nonideal approaches for disaster responders working in tragic situations.

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Czarnobylska strefa w kontekście ukraińskim i białoruskim – przykłady reporterskie

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Gieba K.

Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski

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2020

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vol. 1

181-190

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The subject of the article is the representation of Chernobyl disaster and the differences and similarities between the Belarusian and the Ukrainian context. The source material is primarily reportages on the background of cultural, historical and anthropological findings. The analysis included nature of the closed zone, ways of representing the Ukrainian and the Belarusian part of zone, historical and political contexts of Chernobyl disaster.

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Psychosociální podpora dobrovolníkům českého červeného kříže při povodních v České republice v roce 2013

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Balarinová L., Zbořilová J.

E-psychologie (E-psychology)

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2015

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vol. 9

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issue 1

1-15

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Activities of The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has been since its’ founding based on the help of volunteers. Volunteers of the organization everyday fulfil their mission in more than 180 countries of the world. Everyone who experienced an exceptional incident is to a certain extent influenced by his experiences, not excluding volunteers, who help during floods, earthquakes, wars and other disasters. The aim of this study is devoted to how the volunteers of the Czech Red Cross perceive a psychosocial support in the context of the organization and in relation to their actual work during floods in the year 2013 in the Czech Republic. 40 volunteers were involved in the study. The research tool was a questionnaire which was composed from the recommendation for the National Red Cross and Red Crescent societies to gather information concerning care for their workers.

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Činnost Mezinárodního hnutí Červeného kříže a Červeného půlměsíce je od počátku založena na pomoci ze strany dobrovolníků. Denně dobrovolníci organizace naplňují poslání ve více než 180 zemích světa. Každý účastník mimořádné události je do jisté míry zasažen či alespoň ovlivněn svými prožitky, a to nevyjímaje dobrovolníky, kteří pomáhají při povodních, zemětřeseních, válkách a jiných událostech. Cíl studie je věnován tomu, jak dobrovolníci Českého červeného kříže vnímají psychosociální podporu v souvislosti s organizací a ve vztahu k vlastnímu působení v čase povodní v roce 2013 v České republice. Do výzkumu se zapojilo 40 dobrovolníků Českého červeného kříže. Výzkumným nástrojem byl dotazník, který byl sestaven na základě doporučení pro národní společnosti Červeného kříže a Červeného půlměsíce k získávání informací ohledně péče o své dobrovolníky.

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Ecophilosophy and the Problem of Monitoring Hazards

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Apkin R., Tajsin E.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2019

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issue 3

163-170

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There is a strong interconnection between the social and environmental spheres. The efforts of monitoring and forecasting of disastrous events can illustrate benefits and threats of technicization and science. In ecophilosophy the forecasting of hazards is today extremely needed. It is not about creating theoretical unified structures or practical return to holistic harmony of a primordial man with nature. It is about, as Félix Guattari once held it, the complexity of the relationship between humans and their natural environment. Though the desired maintenance of the conflict between industrial society and natural systems now seems impossible, we still can start moving towards it: theoretically, by developing eco-philosophical ideas, and practically, monitoring and forecasting catastrophes and disasters, to protect human life and health and, as eco-philosophers would say, keep land usable for human purposes. The topic of the earth-quakes forecast today is more in demand than ever.

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Challenge of Time as a Moral Imperative

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Drozenová W.

Human Affairs

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2015

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vol. 26

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issue 1

80-89

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The aim of this essay is to consider how the dominant moral theories can be applied to the discourse of disaster situations. In specific times, specific values take priority. Therefore, this article will consider how moral theory deals with time. Kant’s moral philosophy has influenced ethics enormously, but rejects the idea of a temporal dimension in ethics; consequently, modern ethics has not devoted sufficient attention to the temporal dimension. Nonetheless, Kantian ethics established the basic principles of respect for human beings as ends in themselves, and for autonomy of rational beings; thus it cannot be ignored. In political decision-making, simply having good intentions does not suffice; they must be accompanied by responsibility. Both the ethics of consequentialism and virtue ethics (the virtue of wisdom) deal with responsibility for the future. Hans Jonas developed a concept of responsibility concerned particularly with the risks associated with new technologies and the ethical requirement to avoid disasters. “Uncertainty may be our permanent fate - which has moral consequences” (Jonas). Public policy should be precautionary. The ethics of disaster preparation planning is distinct from the ethics of disaster response planning.

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The pandemic from the criminal-law perspective. Selected issues.

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Pawelec K.

Cybersecurity and Law

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2020

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vol. 3

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issue 1

131-139

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The recent pandemic, which is affecting virtually all the countries in the world, has posed a range of formidable challenges for public authorities. One of these has involved developing legal procedures to protect the lives and health of citizens, as well as to maintain a functional State apparatus and economy. It was necessary, however, that the regulations adopted to that end did not undermine core principles, even in emergency and dangerous situations. They were meant to safeguard core democratic values, while also setting certain limitations. It was imperative that the legislation be passed in accordance with constitutional rules. And this particularly involved legal sanctions, which are the focus of this paper. The paper examines Polish Penal Code provisions in terms of their alignment with the current pandemic situation. Consideration is given to whether they require improvements, and, if so, what could be improved.

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Białoruskie doświadczenia w zakresie zarządzania kryzysowego

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Szwajca A.

Zeszyty Naukowe Państwowej Wyższej Szkoły Zawodowej im. Witelona w Legnicy

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2016

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issue 1(18)

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Bezpieczeństwo Republiki Białorusi chronione jest przez organy państwowe przed zagrożeniami wewnętrznymi i zewnętrznymi. Białoruś jest państwem położonym w Europie Wschodniej, przynależącym do organizacji międzynarodowych i regionalnych. W związku ze swoim położeniem geograficznym oraz przebytymi transformacjami jest szczególnie narażone na szereg zagrożeń, zwłaszcza tych związanych ze zorganizowaną przestępczością, handlem ludźmi, narkotykami, bronią itp. Ponadto w dalszym ciągu zmaga się ze skutkami jednej z największych katastrof, jaką był wybuch reaktora jądrowego w elektrowni w ukraińskim Czarnobylu (1986), który spowodował skażenie dużej części Białorusi. Zarządzanie kryzysowe na obszarze Republiki Białorusi sprawuje Ministerstwo Sytuacji Nadzwyczajnych Republiki Białorusi (MES), które jest właściwym organem rządowym do spraw regulacji i kontroli w zakresie zapobiegania i likwidacji sytuacji nadzwyczajnych katastrof naturalnych i antropogenicznych oraz obrony cywilnej, ochrony przeciwpożarowej, przemysłowej, bezpieczeństwa jądrowego i radiacyjnego, likwidacji skutków katastrofy w Czarnobylu, tworzenia i utrzymywanie rezerw państwowych i mobilizacji materiału. Organizację działań organów państwowych i obywateli reguluje ustawa z dnia 5 maja 1998 N-141-W o ochronie ludności i terytorium w sytuacji kryzysowej, regularnie zmieniana i dostosowywana do obecnych realiów. Białoruski system zarządzania kryzysowego funkcjonuje na wszystkich szczeblach administracyjnych państwa, zwracając uwagę na monitorowanie zagrożeń, edukację społeczeństwa oraz rzetelną politykę informacyjną. O pojawieniu się sytuacji kryzysowej informowany jest organ państwowy, który decyduje o uruchomieniu konkretnych procedur, a co za tym idzie – właściwych sił i środków potrzebnych do opanowania zaistniałego zdarzenia oraz późniejszej odbudowy.

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The State organs of the Republic of Belarus protect security of the Republic against internal and external threats. Belarus is a country in Eastern Europe and belongs to international and regional organizations. Due to its geographical location and past transformations, Belarus is particularly exposed to risks, especially those associated with organized crime, human trafficking, drugs, weapons, etc. Furthermore, it is still struggling with the effects of one of the biggest disasters, which was the nuclear reactor explosion at a power plant at the Ukrainian Chernobyl (1986), causing contamination of a large part of Belarus. Crisis management in the Republic of Belarus is in charge of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus (MES). It is the appropriate governmental body responsible for: regulating and monitoring in the field of prevention and elimination of emergency situations of natural and man-made disasters and civil defense, fire protection, industrial, nuclear safety and radiation, liquidation of consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, the creation and maintenance of state reserves and mobilization of the material. Organizing activities of state bodies and citizens is regulated by the Act of May 5, 1998 N 141-W on the protection of the population and territory in a crisis situation, regularly changed and adapted to current situation. Belarusian crisis management system operates at all levels of the state administration, paying attention to the monitoring of risks, public education and reliable information policy. The state organ is being informed on appearing crisis situation. Then it decides to launch specific procedures and thus the appropriate forces and resources needed to manage an event occurring and the subsequent reconstruction.

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Czarnobylska modlitwa. Kronika przyszłości Swietłany Aleksijewicz: konflikt postkatastroficznych narracji

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Karonta A.

Rana. Literatura - Doświadczenie - Tożsamość

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2020

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issue 2

1-15

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Svetlana Alexievich’s Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future is a collection of narratives created after the catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The paper presents the posttraumatic reality as an inexpressible experience that cannot be explained or described. However, the inability to represent traumatic experience does not mean falling into silence. Instead, it rouses the imagination. Interviews with victims of the catastrophe carried out by the author confirm the existence of a specific, collective “imaginarium” of the conceptual realm, where the process of fantasizing actuates discourse, both metaphysical-apocalyptic and other, and also evokes the aestheticization of the disaster, as well as irony. The emergence of different languages reflects the possible ways of perceiving posttraumatic reality and creating postcatastrophic discourse. The catastrophe, which creates a threat – and simultaneously, an attraction, an unreal object of desire – is terrifying and at the same time ridiculous.

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Czarnobylska modlitwa. Kronika przyszłości Swietłany Aleksijewicz jest zbiorem narracji powstałych po wybuchu elektrowni jądrowejw Czarnobylu. Publikacja przedstawia posttraumatyczną rzeczywistość jako przestrzeń „niewyrażalną”, niedającą się wytłumaczyć lub opisać. Brak możliwości reprezentacji doświadczenia traumatycznego nie oznacza jednak popadnięcia w milczenie, lecz powoduje uruchamianie wyobraźni. Wywiady z ofiarami katastrofy przeprowadzone przez autorkę potwierdzają istnienie swoistego imaginarium zbiorowego, w którym snucie fantazji uruchamia m.in. metafizyczny dyskurs apokaliptyczny, a także powoduje estetyzację katastrofy lub ironizowanie jej. Powstanie tak różnych języków odzwierciedla możliwe sposoby odbierania posttraumatycznej rzeczywistości, tworzenie dyskursu postkatastroficznego. Katastrofa, tworząc zagrożenie, jednocześnie przyciąga, stanowi odrealniony obiekt pożądania, jest przerażająca i zarazem śmieszna.

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Sytuacja demograficzna Polski implikacją dla zintegrowanego rozwoju

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Pliszka T., Tkach A.

Nierówności społeczne a wzrost gospodarczy

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2014

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issue 37

239-257

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Celem badawczym artykułu jest ukazanie sytuacji demograficznej na tle kondycji gospo-darki polskiej. Okazuje się, że Polska w świetle przytoczonych danych, które zawarto w wielu tabelach, znajduje się w silnym kryzysie gospodarczym i demograficznym. Wydajność pracy plasuje się znacznie poniżej przeciętnej UE. Kolejny czynnik niekorzystny dla gospodarki to wysokie bezrobocie, jedno z najwyższych w Unii Europejskiej. Bezrobocie utrzymuje się już ponad 10 lat i nie widać oznak dla jego znaczącego ograniczenia. Dalszy niekorzystny czynnik to wysoki poziom emigracji czasowej, ale też emigracji na pobyt stały – zwłaszcza młodzieży. Niska kultura rolna, niekorzystnie rysująca się struktura wiekowa ludności, wydłużenie wieku przejścia na emeryturę do pełnych 67 lat dla kobiet i mężczyzn, przy jednocześnie chronicznym braku miejsc pracy i to dla ludzi młodych (absolwentów szkół średnich i wyższych). Wysokie ujemne saldo funduszu emerytalnego stwarzające zagrożenie dla wypłaty emerytur. Ogólnie bar-dzo niskie przeciętne płace i niekorzystna z punktu widzenia przyszłości struktura wiekowa ludno-ści. Ponad 8 lat krótsze przeciętnie życie Polaka od przeciętnie najdłużej żyjących w Andorze – to elementy, na podstawie których wnioskuje się o kondycji i potencjale społeczno-gospodarczym naszego państwa. Dotychczasowe działania naszego państwa w zasadzie ograniczają się do zabiegów biurokra-tycznych i marketingowych. W Polsce nie zauważa się produkcji czy usług, które można by uznać za naszą specjalność. Analizując wartość dodaną brutto dla poszczególnych sektorów gospodarki zauważa się wysoki udział usług – ok. 64,3%, przemysłu – 23,7% i budownictwa – 8,2%, co jest zgodne z trendami światowymi, natomiast czy jest to dobre dla naszego poziomu rozwoju, to pozostaje pytaniem otwartym. Wniosek końcowy: Polska będąc w kryzysie musi podjąć działania zmierzające do wyelimi-nowania negatywnych zjawisk, które winny równomiernie obciążyć mieszkańców i stworzyć zachęty wśród młodzieży do pozostawania w kraju.

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The aim of the research is to show the demographic situation on the background of the Polish economy. It turns out that Poland in the light of presented data is in acute economic and demo-graphic crisis. Labor productivity, which is shown in comparison to the other EU countries is well below the EU average. Another factor detrimental to the economy is high unemployment, one of the highest in the European Union. Unemployment has remained on a high level for over 10 years and is not showing any signs of its significant decrease. The next negative factors are: high level of temporary emigration, and also migration, particularly of young people, for permanent residence, low agricultural culture, very low average wages, unfavorable age structure of the population, the shift of the retirement age for 67 years for men and women, at the same time a chronic lack of jobs for young people (high school and university graduates). The high negative balance of the pension fund dangerous for its solvency. Over 8 years short-er life expectancy than in Andorra. All of above facts indicate the socio-economic condition and potential of our country. Previous actions of our state, in principle, are limited to bureau-cratic and marketing procedures. There are no services nor production which can be regarded as our specialty. Analysing the gross value added for each sector of the economy one can see a high share of services (approximately 64,3%), industry (23,7%) and construction (8,2%), which is consistent with global trends. Whether that trend is good for our development remains an open question. Conclusion: Poland, struggling with crisis, must take an action to eliminate negative phenomena and to create incentives for young people to stay in the country. The cost of that ac-tions should be equally taken by all residents.

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Literatura współistniejąca

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Olszański G.

Autobiografia. Literatura. Kultura. Media

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2021

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vol. 17

159-174

EN

The aim of this article is an attempt to answer the question whether the COVID-19 pandemic – contrary to all the negative scenarios and unequivocally pessimistic descriptions – can become a tool for a culture-making change whose positive effects can be observed in the area of literature. After all, the unequivocally negative image of a disaster as an event having solely destructive consequences is not the only possible outlook. Scholars engaged in disaster studies equally strongly emphasize the creative dimension of disasters perceiving them as a kind of energetic stimuli that bring about ambivalent, ambiguous phenomena. It is this kind of thinking that I am trying to adapt to the description of the literary life during pandemic.

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Przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy pandemia COVID-19 – wbrew negatywnym scenariuszom i jednoznacznie pesymistycznym opisom – może stać się narzędziem kulturotwórczej zmiany, której pozytywne skutki dają się zaobserwować w polu literatury. Jednoznacznie negatywny obraz katastrofy, jako zdarzenia niosącego jedynie destrukcyjne skutki, nie jest wszak jedynym możliwym oglądem. Uczeni zajmujący się disaster studies równie mocno podkreślają kreacyjny, twórczy wymiar katastrof, widząc w nich rodzaj energetycznego bodźca, który przynosi zjawiska o ambiwalentnym, niejednoznacznym charakterze. Właśnie ten rodzaj myślenia staram się zaadaptować do deskrypcji życia literackiego toczącego się w trakcie pandemii.

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Od „miasta silników” do „popielnika historii” – o filmowym fantazmacie Detroit i kryzysie idei polis

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Szalewska K.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2020

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vol. 109

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issue 2

219-233

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This article analyses the cultural phenomenon of Detroit. The author tries to reconstruct the phantasm of the fall of this metropolis based on artistic representations (primarily film productions) of the ‘Motor City’, while reflecting on the crisis of the idea of polis in the times of postmodernity. The analysis opens with RoboCop by Paul Verhoeven which is contrasted with 21st-century film productions, such as Lost River by Ryan Gosling, Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch, It Follows by David Robert Mitchell and Don’t Breathe by Fede Álvarez. Studying RoboCop through the prism of topographical turn and philosophy of the city makes it possible to see this picture as a testimony of how polis was perceived in the late 20th century (technological optimism, crisis of the idea of the centre pointing to its strong embedment in urban imagination). Juxtaposed with Verhoeven’s picture, the features by Gosling, Mitchell, Álvarez and Jarmusch show how urban phantasms have changed in the 21st century, coinciding with the newly developed forms of urban aesthetics (urban exploration, ruin porn, fascination with the post-catastrophic urban form).

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Katastrofa, czyli na ruinach zadomowienia

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Kunce A.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2020

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vol. 109

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146-166

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Focusing on the concept of disaster, the author asks questions about a space for thinking and experiencing which emerges in the face of a catastrophe that either strikes directly, is heard of, seen or talked about, recurring in everyday life, through cultural texts and their transformations. The unfolding research leads to even more fundamental questions: Is a disaster an anticipation of something? Doesn’t it merely reveal what we are so eager to forget, having settled into our culture? The author refers to Freud’s concept of the uncanny (in German: Unheimliche). By putting it in the specific context of disaster, she studies it at its most radical, wondering what happens when this feeling of ‘being settled’ is turned into ruins. Can art penetrate the severity of disaster in the radical context of the post-catastrophic quality of Unheimliche? According to the article, culture must create a space offering a more relaxed approach to all that is human and to human community. This is for example the case of catastrophic texts. A story, a film or any other artistic production that visualises a disaster, even if only in the diminishing space of the familiar, the heimlich, provides some insight into the world of radical anxiety.

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Museum vitae – pęknięcia i kontynuacje po katastrofie. 9/11 Memorial and Museum w Nowym Jorku

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Bogunia-Borowska M.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2020

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vol. 109

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issue 2

32-52

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On 11 September 2001, the twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City were destroyed in a terrorist attack. It was a disaster of immense political, social, cultural and economic consequences for the entire world. The WTC site, referred to as ‘Ground Zero’, needed to be restored, both physically and symbolically. The site’s redesign and rebuilding process took nearly 20 years and has now been completed. The article discusses the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City as museum vitae, describing it with two metaphors: cracking and continuing. The former refers to the WTC disaster cracking the human will to live and fight, and evoking reflection on the value system of the world attacked with such a brutal force. The latter, while allowing many possible interpretations, seems to hint at new ideas, information, contexts and understanding that may enrich our knowledge of the world. The entire site, with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, tells the story of the disaster that happened here as well as of the culture, values, meanings and strength of human community. Unfolding like a story in a book, it reveals different senses while leaving room for individual interpretation.

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Medialne życie katastrofy. Przypadek wybuchu w Czarnobylskiej Elektrowni Jądrowej

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Sarzyńska A.

Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka

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2020

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vol. 109

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53-68

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Among all known disasters, cataclysms and catastrophes, the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant holds a particular place in human memory. There are several reasons for that. Firstly, as one of the largest industrial disasters in history, it was an incident of truly global reach that put citizens of many countries at risk. Secondly, people were suddenly forced to confront with an invisible enemy, one that raises the greatest fear, which made that fight extremely uneven. Thirdly, the explosion occurred at a specific moment in history and in a specific country, as a result of which relevant information, limited as it was, was released to the public with a significant delay, with some events of 26 April 1986 not fully explained until today. These are probably only a few reasons why this catastrophe continues to stir emotions even after 30 years. The aim of the discussion presented here is to find the source of the current increase in interest in Chernobyl, analyse media discourse associated with disasters and predict their possible effects.

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