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ANALYZING BIOGRAPHIES OF FOREIGN-BORN ACADEMICS IN SLOVAKIA: WHY HIGHLY SKILLED EMPLOYEES DECIDE TO CHOOSE A PERIPHERAL COUNTRY

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Łuczaj K.

Sociológia (Sociology)

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2019

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vol. 51

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issue 3

250 – 271

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This paper summarizes findings from qualitative research conducted in Slovakia in early 2018. One of the main research questions was related to factors attracting foreign-born academics to Slovak higher education institutions. This data supplements limited knowledge derived from the official statistics. Using individual in-depth interviews (IDI), six types of foreign-born academics were distinguished: family-tied academics, commuters, socioeconomic migrants, transnational scholars, local enthusiasts, and last resort scholars. The paper includes a detailed characteristic of each category supported by extensive excerpts from the interviews. It facilitates a discussion regarding another dimension of the distinction between global academic centres and peripheries.

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SCHOLARSHIP AND POWER: “RESEARCH OF THE UKRAINIAN ETHNIC GROUP” – AN ACADEMIC PROJECT IN SLOVAKIA UNDER THE COMMUNIST REGIME

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Kiliánová G.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

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2019

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vol. 67

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issue 4

441 – 462

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This paper considers the relations between political power and scholarly activity during the period of the communist regime in Slovakia, then part of Czechoslovakia. Taking the example of a research project on the Ukrainian minority, undertaken by the Slovak Academy of Sciences during the years 1954–70, the paper traces the relationships between scholars and politicians and among academic institutions in the Czech lands and Slovakia, and the interventions by political power in academic work. The author focuses on the following questions: how did the project originate, and what were its aims and results? In what political, economic and social context did scholars undertake the project? How did the power relations between scholars and politicians develop and change in the course of the project? Why did political power intervene in research of the Ukrainian ethnic group? The paper draws upon M. Foucault’s views on the exercise of power, develops questions of the legitimacy of power (R. Barker), conceives scholarly work as an activity of a certain kind (P. Rabinow), and concentrates on the actors in power relationships, their strategies and motivations. Empirical data for the answer to research questions were acquired from archival documents about the project and from interviews with scholars who had participated in its work. The findings from analyses show what the specific possibilities and limits were for scholars functioning in the respective network of power relationships. They furthermore reveal a gamut of successful or unsuccessful strategies which scholars employed to bring about changes in the processes of the exercise of power.

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Życie intymne uczonych

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Hübner P.

Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa

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2011

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vol. 47

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issue 2(188)

229-239

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The paper presents cases, found in Polish academic life, of exceptional and moving violations of moral standards bound with the ideal of a scholar. These cases were made public by actors themselves (Wincenty Lutoslawski, Eugeniusz Romer), uncompromising historians (Henryk Barycz, Stanislaw Pigon) or widely known decision-makers (Rev. Bronislaw Zongollowicz). They argued that the ethics of scholars has not only normative character, but also a descriptive one, in many cases different that normative decisions. So conceived normative ethics should encompass the intimate life, particularly if it were made public due to a scandal. Such a scandal should call not condemnation, but intellectual reflection.

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ANALYZING BIOGRAPHIES OF FOREIGN-BORN ACADEMICS IN SLOVAKIA: WHY HIGHLY SKILLED EMPLOYEES DECIDE TO CHOOSE A PERIPHERAL COUNTRY

SCHOLARSHIP AND POWER: “RESEARCH OF THE UKRAINIAN ETHNIC GROUP” – AN ACADEMIC PROJECT IN SLOVAKIA UNDER THE COMMUNIST REGIME

Życie intymne uczonych