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Mobilność w ocenie jakości życia młodych katowiczan (na przykładzie studentów i uczniów)

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Płaczek E.

Studia Miejskie

2014

vol. 15

55-62

W artykule podjęto problem oceny jakości życia w Katowicach w kategorii mobilności. Ocenę (wstępną) dokonano w oparciu o badania ankietowe przeprowadzone na grupie studentów (stacjonarnych i niestacjonarnych) Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Katowicach. Uzyskane wyniki stanowią ciekawą przestrzeń badawczą, wskazując na odczucia młodych ludzi w zakresie przyszłych działań mogących podnieść odczuwany poziom jakości życia w Katowicach.

In the article a problem of the evaluation of the quality of living in Katowice in the category was taken mobilities. Evaluation (preliminary) they made students based on questionnaire surveys conducted on the group (stationary and nonstationary) of Economic University in Katowice. Achieved results constitute the interesting research space, showing the quality of living in Katowice young people to feelings in future action being able to raise the felt level.

The Unbearable Likeness of Being a Tourist: Expats, Travel and Imaginaries in the Neo-colonial Orient

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Norum R. E.

International Review of Social Research

2013

vol. 3

issue 1

27-47

This paper considers the impact of shared imaginaries of mobility among so-called elite, mobile professionals - early-career expatriates living in Nepal for a period of one to three years. Based on 18 months of fieldwork among expatriates in Kathmandu, I explore the ways in which these actors construct, navigate and narrativise the boundaries between themselves and the many tourists who visit Nepal each year. While in some transnational contexts, these guests may seek to align themselves with other guests such as tourists and foreign residents as a means of asserting and expressing shared commonalities of transnationality and mobility, expatriates in Kathmandu are keen to highlight perceived distance between themselves and other guests as much as they are the perceived proximities between themselves and native Nepalis. In focusing on this former interaction, I show that tourist imaginaries become important means for expatriates to negotiate difference as they learn their new local identities in a context of spatial and temporal transience. Though the academic literatures of migration and tourism have developed more or less in isolation from one another, these two spheres of mobility are in fact very much interrelated. I suggest that anthropological research into the self-conceptions of mobile professionals take into consideration other non-local groups with whom they share local spaces, since these actors can be used instrumentally as a means of strengthening both group and individual identities. If anthropology engages effectively with the interactions between hosts and guests in colonial spaces, I argue that just as much can be gleaned by looking at engagements between guests and other guests. Through a consideration of these border zones of encounter, anthropologists can illustrate ethnographically how individual expatriate identities are negotiated within communities of elite, mobile professionals.

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Mobilność w ocenie jakości życia młodych katowiczan (na przykładzie studentów i uczniów)

The Unbearable Likeness of Being a Tourist: Expats, Travel and Imaginaries in the Neo-colonial Orient