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Fenomen kreacyjny pogranicza: efekty pograniczności w biografiach twórczych, historii i geografii literatury

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Grigorova M.

Postscriptum Polonistyczne

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2013

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issue 1(11)

79-91

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The article discusses Polish borderlands as a creative phenomenon. It considers their cultural and historical importance and the research that has been conducted from 1940 till today. The author uses the term „borderland“ (pogranicze) as defined by T. Bujnicki (Mechanizmy funkcjowania pogranicza kulturowego, 2006). The author explains how borderlands create important cultural situations, significant phenomena and she also proves the borderland character of Polish culture (C. Miłosz, Polskie kontrasty, 1995; Rodzinna Europa,2001; S. Bereś, Historia literatury polskiej w rozmowach, 2002). The effects of such creativity can be observed in the history and the geography of literature as well as in the biographies of artists and the problem of their identity. These effects are found in the following issues: the role of borderland as a concept in the history of literature (regarding borderland as a „centre” in the period of Romanticism, „borderland” trend in literature); process of crossing the borders and conquering the world (exemplary biographies of the artists who come from the borderland areas); the effect of „repeated biography” MiłoszMickiewicz; the effects of literary selfcreation.

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The politics of nationalism in the Polish-German borderland

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Jaskułowski K.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

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2018

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issue 50

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The politics of nationalism in the Polish-German borderlandThe review discusses the book by John D. Kulczycki on the politics of national homogenization in the Third Reich and in post-war Poland in the Polish-German borderlands. Kulczycki’s book presents a comprehensive and well-structured analysis of the nationalising policies in the entire Polish-German borderland. Referring to the rich literature and primary sources, the author examines the main tenets of the Third Reich and Poland’s post-war politics, their local implementation and the similarities and differences between policies in various regions. It is argued that is a very successful and valuable syn- thesis. The great merit of the book is that it is based on clear and solid theoretical premises. Polityka nacjonalizacji na pograniczu polsko-niemieckimRecenzja omawia książkę Johna D. Kulczyckiego dotyczącą polityki narodowej homogenizacji prowadzoną przez III Rzeszę oraz powojenną Polskę na pograniczu polsko-niemieckim. Książka Kulczyckiego przedstawia całościową i uporządkowaną analizę tej polityki nacjonalizacji. Nawiązując do bogatej literatury i źródeł, autor analizuje główne założenia powojennej polityki III Rzeszy, a także powojennej Polski, ich lokalną realizację oraz podobieństwa i różnice między politykami w różnych regionach. Jest to bardzo udana i wartościowa synteza. Wielką zaletą książki jest to, że opiera się na jasnych i solidnych przesłankach teoretycznych.

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Asymmetry of Economic Development of Cross-Border Areas in the Context of Perception of Near-Border Location

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Jakubowski A.

Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i prognozy

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2018

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issue 2(52)

123-131

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The objective of the study is the investigation of the dependency between the asymmetry of economic development of cross-border regions in the European Union and the perception of near-border location as an “opportunity” or “obstacle.” For this purpose, an index of relative asymmetry of economic development was developed (DI) based on the GDP per capita in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS). The variability in the scope of perception of cross-border location as an “opportunity” or “obstacle” by the population of near-border areas was determined based on results of the Flash Eurobarometer 422. The basic statistical method applied in the study was the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. The obtained results provide a basis to state that the level of disproportions in the economic development of near-border regions (asymmetry of economic development) is linked to the perception of near-border location.

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Celem opracowania jest zbadanie związku pomiędzy asymetrią rozwoju gospodarczego regionów transgranicznych na obszarze Unii Europejskiej a postrzeganiem przygranicznego położenia jako „szansy” lub „bariery”. W tym celu opracowano wskaźnik względnej asymetrii rozwoju gospodarczego (DI) bazujący na wartości PKB per capita według parytetu siły nabywczej. Zróżnicowanie w zakresie percepcji przygranicznego położenia jako „szansy” lub „bariery” przez ludność obszarów przygranicznych określono na podstawie wyników Flash Eurobarometer 422. Podstawową metodą statystyczną wykorzystaną w badaniu była analiza współczynnika korelacji rang Spearmana. Uzyskane wyniki pozwalają na stwierdzenie, że poziom dysproporcji w rozwoju gospodarczym obszarów przygranicznych (asymetria rozwoju gospodarczego) ma związek z percepcją przygranicznego położenia.

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„I pójdzie ze mną do Lwowa, to znaczy do trumny”. Przedmiot jako strażnik pamięci o Kresach

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Dubaniewicz A. M.

Przegląd Kulturoznawczy

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2012

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issue 2(12)

119-140

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This article identifies the forms of updating and constructing the memory of the Eastern Borderlands through material objects, referring to Jan Assmann’s concept of cultural memory, memory of the things and the process of exceeding places from the space. These considerations are supported by the statements of the formerly residents of the Eastern Borderlands taken from interviews conducted by me in 2010–2012 in Lower Silesia. Described objects as earth, spoons, rugs and Christmas decorations create symbolical, but based on the living memory milieux de mémoire in contrast to the objects placed in the chambers of memory and museums of Borderlands, which are institutionalizing and typing in the historical process the image of Borderlands, being a lieux de mémoire according to the concept of Pierre Nora.

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Border Metaphors in the Polish Sociology of Borderlands

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Kurczewska J.

Polish Sociological Review

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2009

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vol. 166

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issue 2

193-212

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This paper treatises Polish sociology of borderlands (mostly Eastern) as the rich resources of metaphors of borders, especially national and political ones. It shows how these metaphors are linked to different sociological imagery-modern and postmodern. Its aim is to reconstruct analytical strategies and research projects from this sub-discipline, focusing on metaphors of borders. These strategies and projects are based on very different approaches to metaphors. The first operation is an instrument which the theoretician uses to reconstruct the theoretical typology of borders and borderlands. The second operation is a tool which the researcher uses to reflect more deeply on the empirical data concerning individual and collective reactions to borders and borderlands. The third operation is a narrative tool used by examinees who inhabit the borderlands. The paper provides a broad and intensive discussion of the functions of different metaphors about borders in relation to the different intellectual approaches to problems of borderlands and borders. It stresses the needs for equal treatment in Polish sociology of borderland problems of borderlands and problems of national borders. Especially emphasizes the positive functions of academic interest in borders metaphors in this scientific treatment. Generally speaking, this analyse enhances many links between sociology of borderlands and cultural anthropology and is closely connected to the question of where these intellectual operations on metaphors belong in the project of an interdisciplinary approach to borders and borderlands.

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“And Is It Really in Lubawka?” Young People and Wanted and Unwanted Cultural Heritage

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Cukras-Stelągowska J., Stelągowski J.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2013

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issue 6(99)

111-134

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In our research we are seeking for a Lower Silesian identity, we are especially interested in the Polish-German cultural heritage in social remembrance (or social oblivion). In the article our basic purpose is to provide the grounds for discussion about the presence of the sacred space in social memory (the old German Calvary as a part of contemporary Lubawka’s cultural heritage), using group interviews with visual presentations to stimulate a journey back into the past, to familiarize with the place and its images. We aim at the reconstruction of “social frames of memory”, the moments when the small sacral architecture began to lose its religious mad social power, and we also want to show young residents’ attitudes towards this process. The project also seems to have some social value because it may become an introduction to the debate on preserving the Calvary as an element of local identity.

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U siebie. Literacki obraz Górnego Śląska jako swojskiej, ale nieoswojonej przestrzeni pogranicza

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Pospiszil K.

Postscriptum Polonistyczne

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2012

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issue 1(9)

215-234

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Experience of living in borderlands is the most important Upper Silesian experience. Com-plicated geopolitical situation affects on Silesian history, local inhabitants’ identity, specific character of this place (periphery complex, pressure of ideological and cultural centres versus everyday relations with the Other, who often is homely and who is different from stereo-types disseminated by ideological centres are experienced here). Upper Silesia had to – and still has to – struggle with typical borderlands’ problems such as: borders’ inconstancy, feel-ing of homeliness, everyday relations with the Others, extreme ideologization, danger, fear, multiculturalism, other culture’s remains even after a resettlements and emigrations. All these problems are a great theme in literature about Upper Silesia, which is trying to describe and understand inconstancy and tragedy of the borderland.

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Social Capital Management. A Case Study of the Town of Racibórz

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Geisler R., Potracki M.

Border and Regional Studies

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2021

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vol. 9

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issue 2

69-89

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For many years, social capital has been the subject of research in various areas and social environments. What is worth diagnosing is not so much its functioning or formation, but its management, i.e. deliberate development aimed at achieving individual or collective benefits. The cultural borderland region of the Racibórz area, especially the town, is a good case for an analysis of such phenomena, because, over the centuries, the town has been part of various administrative and economic regimes and thus has developed forms of social capital independent of state structures. The main research questions in this paper are the following: What remains of them today? Are they subject to management processes?

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Changing Social Roles in a Polish-German Border Town: The Case of Międzychód/Birnbaum

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Lorenz T.

Acta Poloniae Historica

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2014

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vol. 109

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In this article I focus on the questions of how the social roles of Germans and Poles changed after Międzychód/Birnbaum came back to Poland on January 17, 1920; what were the stages in the process of change the town went through; and, what factors were responsible for this change. I begin with a broader introduction presenting, first, the situation in the early modern times, pointing to what it meant to be ‘Polish’ in a ‘German’-dominated urban society in the Greater Poland region; and, second, the change which occurred during the nineteenth century. With the examples of individual biographies, I show the variety of role perceptions in a mixed Polish-German setting. The main section analyses the ways in which the role reversal was enforced in favour of Międzychód’s Poles in the arena of local politics, which is preceded by a glance at the impact of an international conflict between Germany and Poland on the lot of German ‘optants’ – i.e. those who had opted for keeping the German citizenship and who later on were forced by the Polish authorities, in most cases, to leave Poland. My argument is that the role reversal in Międzychód/Birnbaum was a protracted process, which began with the onset of nationalism and was facilitated by economic and social change.

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“It’s scary here.” Haunted landscape as a research tool to look into post-expulsion landscapes

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Ćwiek-Rogalska K.

Polish Journal of Landscape Studies

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2020

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vol. 3

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issue 6

27-47

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The article deals with the idea of “haunted landscape” as a research tool in analyzing post-expulsion landscapes. I propose a new perspective on analyzing narrations concerning expulsion and resettlements of lands where a drastic demographic change took place. I use existing research connected with the idea of Jacques Derrida’s hauntology, as well as other analytical sources dealing with folktales of different regions. As material for analysis, I propose various records from ethnographic research conducted in the Czechoslovak borderlands, stored at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, concerning the space of a “traditional house” and the new settlers’ views on their new home.

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Kwestia pograniczy w regionie Międzymorza (notatki wstępne)

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Szaruga L.

Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia

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2015

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vol. 3: Elity w krajach Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej po roku 1989

57 - 63

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The article discusses the issue of moving borders of the area of Intermarium (Polish: Międzymorze) comprising the states located within the area demarcated by the Adriatic Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, from Greece to Finland. An essential fact is that the communities of the countries between Russia and Western Europe, deprived of political independence in the 19th and 20th centuries and conforming to the treaties of the world powers, did not have an influence on forming their own territories. The text also emphasizes the specificity of historical experience of the countries of the mentioned region which were under pressure of both Nazi and Bolshevik forms of totalitarianism in the 20th century.

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“This land was Mexican once/ Was Indian always/ and is./ And will be again”. El papel de la memoria colectiva en la formación del discurso feminista chicano

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Skonecka A.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2017

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vol. 44

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issue 1

87-98

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The purpose of this article is to analyze the theoretical discourse of the Chicano feminists in order to determine the role of the collective memory in forming that discourse. The subject of the analysis will be mainly the mandatory reference to the postcolonial feminisms, namely the masterpiece by Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga titled Esta puente mi espalda. Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos. However, in order to present a complete overview of the Chicano discourse, we will also mention the work of scholars like Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Ana Castillo and Emma Pérez.

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Konstrukty cywilizacji i metafizyka transfiguracji w twórczości Romany Kaszczyc

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Chojnacka W.

Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2023

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issue 12

157-168

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Romana Kaszczyc – an artist concerned with nature, borderlands, peripheries, the West Pomeranian and Lubusz lands, the Barlinecka Wilderness – dissolves in her work the ontological dimension of borders, while bringing into play the perspectives of neighbourhood relations, interdependence and diversity. Wilderness endures, irrespective of the conventional borders marked on the administrative map of Poland. However, it is also worth raising the question of whether culture is becoming – by greedily expanding its territory – nature’s neighbour, or perhaps its oppressor? In her work, Roma Barlinecka creates a world in which social patterns and roles become a prison. Whereas, the coexisting binary reality of night and day, darkness and illumination, life and death is metaphysical in the artist’s eyes. Thus, is the border transcendent, epistemological and independent of man? Above all, I would not only like to commemorate a worthy artist who consciously chose to live in the borderlands, but also to look at the border itself, and how antagonisms between culture and nature, centre and periphery, global recognition and regionality are generated and constituted. Notwithstanding the goals above, the main research objective is to develop an interpretation of selected culture-themed texts by Romana Kaszczyc in the light of considerations of the semantic experience of the borderland. I will present a critical study of literary and plastic works from a neo-regional and ecocritical perspective. The interpretations shall induce deliberations on neighbourhood relations, border and ecocide. Research inspirations will be drawn from the scholarly output of, among others: Julia Fiedorczuk, Aleksandra Ubertowska, Tatiana Czerska, Elżbieta Rybicka.

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W twórczości Romany Kaszczyc – artystki przyrody, pogranicza, peryferii, ziemi zachodniopomorskiej i lubuskiej, Puszczy Barlineckiej – w perspektywie sąsiedztwa, współzależności i różnorodności, status granicy traci swoje ontologiczne znaczenie. Puszcza trwa, niezależnie od umownych granic wyznaczonych na administracyjnej mapie Polski. Jednocześnie warto zadać pytanie, czy kultura staje się – powiększającą zachłannie swoje terytorium – sąsiadką natury, a może jej ciemiężycielką? Barlinecka Roma kreuje w swojej twórczości świat, w którym schematy i role społeczne stają się więzieniem. Natomiast w oczach artystki współistniejąca binarność nocy i dnia, mroku i jasności, życia i śmierci jest metafizyczna. Czy zatem granica byłaby transcendentna, epistemologicznie wydarzająca się oraz niezależna od człowieka? Chciałabym przede wszystkim nie tylko przedstawić zasługującą na upamiętnienie artystkę, która świadomie wybrała życie na terenach pogranicza, ale i przyjrzeć się granicy samej w sobie, w jaki sposób wytwarzają się i konstytuują antagonizmy między kulturą i naturą, centrum i peryferiami, światowym uznaniem i regionalnością. Głównym moim celem badawczym jest natomiast stworzenie interpretacji wybranych tekstów kultury Romany Kaszczyc w świetle rozważań semantycznego doświadczenia pogranicza. Krytyczne opracowanie dzieł literackich i plastycznych przedstawię w perspektywie neoregionalnej oraz ekokrytycznej. Interpretacje staną się jednocześnie pre-tekstem do rozważań związanych z problematyką sąsiedztwa, granicy oraz ekocydu. Inspiracje badawcze czerpać będę z dorobku naukowego m.in. Julii Fiedorczuk, Aleksandry Ubertowskiej, Tatiany Czerskiej, Elżbiety Rybickiej.

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„Heimat is Heimat“: “Homeland” As a Theme in the Memory of German Inhabitants who Have Remained in the Czech Lands

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Nosková J.

Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)

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2018

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vol. 28

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issue 3

184 - 197

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The Czech lands‘ borderland underwent an essential social and cultural transformation between 1945–1946, which was determined by expatriation of most inhabitants of the German origin, as well as by new arrivals, formation of the “Iron Curtain”, and socialization of agriculture. In the public discourse, an image about uprooted borderland was created after 1989. The study deals with how the homeland is thematised by inhabitants of the German origin and their descendants, who were allowed to stay in the Czech lands‘ borderland after 1945/1946 but whose all lived world significantly changed after 1945. The empiric materials includes interviews with eight persons, made using the method of oral history. The author divides the narration about homeland into three groups (according to the time, space, and social and cultural sphere), and as an independent category she sorts out the narrations in which the relation to homeland is compared between those who have remained, and those who had to leave. The author also asks whether it is possible to use the narration about homeland, the “Heimat” concept, for an analysis, which she confirms. The analysis of the material shows that the “homeland” is mostly thematised in connection with its social and cultural components, and that it is most suitable to use the term “displacement” to interpret the narratives.

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Review of Teresa Willenborg’s book "Fremd in der Heimat. Deutsche im Nachkriegspolen 1945-1958"

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Voges J., Voges J.

Historie. Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Historische Forschung Berlin der Polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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2020

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Languages of borderlands, borders of languages: Native and foreign language use in intergroup contact between Czechs and their neighbours

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Petrjánošová M., Leix A.

Human Affairs

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2013

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vol. 23

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issue 4

658-679

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In this article we present a qualitative analysis of empirical findings from an international project on intergroup attitudes and contact in five Central European countries specifically concerning language use. The project concentrated on the interplay of intergroup contact and perception between the members of national groups in the borderlands between the Czech Republic and Austria, Germany, Poland and Slovakia. The open statements analysed here about the contact situations and the ensuing evaluation of the Others were collected as part of an online questionnaire (N=1959). After a short theoretical introduction we reveal the intertwined nature of construing language use: first in each specific borderland, then in the triads speaking together either in the native language of one of the groups (Czechs with Austrians and Germans) or with each speaking their own native languages (Czechs with Poles and Slovaks). Finally we highlight several effects we have observed as a result of being able to compare the situation in more than one neighbourhood, for instance, the effect of the different statuses of the languages involved, or the connection between the language used in contact and a feeling of proximity.

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Czy istnieje człowiek pogranicza? Społeczny portret młodzieży na pograniczach w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej

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Długosz P.

Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne

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2016

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vol. 27 cz. 2

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The article presents the results of research into youth conducted with the use of the survey method in the borderlands in Poland, Ukraine and Hungary. The gathered data indicates that the attitudes and life aspirations are formed by three factors. The first one is connected with the type of the borderland, and the “borderland effect” is observed here. The second one regards socio-economic differences between countries. The most commonly observed differences between youth’s attitudes are observed on the West-East line. The third factor is of cultural character and mainly it is formed by psycho-cultural trends resulting from the processes of globalization and the specificity of being young. In this case we observe a global teenager, who aims at fulfilling their needs beyond borders.

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А Вісла дале плыне Петра Мурянкы – автобіоґрафія як реінвенцийний міф

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Дуць-Файфер О.

Rocznik Ruskiej Bursy

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2017

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vol. 13: Akcja

149-167

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The article attempts to symptomatically read one of the most important texts in Lemko literature of the last decades – the literary autobiography of Petr Murianka entitled And the Vistula Flows On. A large textual machine working for a reinvented myth has been presented, which after the resettlement is to create a new narrative of the community. The Lemko myth works in defiance of the flowing Vistula River, that is, symbolically saving the order of the world with the homeland still remaining in the mountains and foreign lands where Lemkos were resettled. The autobiography was created 60 years after the destructive dislocation of Lemko population and is a testimony of persistent opposition to Polonisation highly determined by displacement. Dedicated to Polish neighbours and written in Lemko Polish, it contains a number of strategic elements acting in a myth-making way and at the same time performatively. What is characteristic for the autobiography - when establishing a pact with the reader it refers to his own people (the myth making pact) and to the neighbours (the pact of understanding). What was published with the aim of ‘describing life’ as an autobiography of a sixty-year-old is, first and foremost, an (auto)biography of a community which for sixty years has been drowning in the dominant trend of disenchanted history.

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Missionaries and Borderlands: «The Mission Play» and Missionary Practices in Alta California

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Melendez D.

Pamiętnik Teatralny

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2021

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issue 4(279)

61-78

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This essay takes up a core question of this issue of Pamiętnik Teatralny: how are we to think about historiography beyond a dualism, settled in time and reflective of the status quo? With respect to the California missions, historical treatments of colonization revolve around a dualism shaped by moral dimensions of the missionary enterprise—did the missions help California Indians or harm them? Theatrical representations, like the wildly successful early twentieth century pageant drama, The Mission Play, staged a version of mission history that argued for the former. As a representation of the mission past, the play conflated missions, as institutions, with the moral character of missionaries, thus edifying a fantasy and entrenching the dualism. However, attention to missionary practices, like keeping time using the mission bell, reveal how the missions were sites where indigenous and colonial realities were in constant conflict. Through practices, relations between missionaries and indios produced a space that was neither strictly colonial nor indigenous, and yet both—a borderland. As a mode of spatial dialectics, borderlands thinking can unsettle the duality underlying representations of the mission past to question how that dualism has come into being.

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Dziewiętnastowieczna rodzina urzędnicza w rozproszeniu. Samotność, wyobcowanie, niepewność w codzienności kresowej inteligencji urzędniczej

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Korybut-Marciniak M.

Rocznik Antropologii Historii

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2019

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issue 12, Historia publiczna

133-147

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The article concerns Poles - lower officials of the administration of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century. The initial thesis of the sketch is the belief that work in administration has a fundamental impact on family relationships, deconstruction of activities, and family separation of officials lasting many years. The source of the article is manuscript epistolography and memorial sources of impoverished noble families: Doliński and Łazarowicz. In the article, I analyze reasons for choosing work in administration, the reality of office work; I also ask about the identity of family members who have dispersed as a result of choosing to work in the Russian administration.

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Fenomen kreacyjny pogranicza: efekty pograniczności w biografiach twórczych, historii i geografii literatury

The politics of nationalism in the Polish-German borderland

Asymmetry of Economic Development of Cross-Border Areas in the Context of Perception of Near-Border Location

„I pójdzie ze mną do Lwowa, to znaczy do trumny”. Przedmiot jako strażnik pamięci o Kresach

Border Metaphors in the Polish Sociology of Borderlands

“And Is It Really in Lubawka?” Young People and Wanted and Unwanted Cultural Heritage

U siebie. Literacki obraz Górnego Śląska jako swojskiej, ale nieoswojonej przestrzeni pogranicza

Social Capital Management. A Case Study of the Town of Racibórz

Changing Social Roles in a Polish-German Border Town: The Case of Międzychód/Birnbaum

“It’s scary here.” Haunted landscape as a research tool to look into post-expulsion landscapes

Kwestia pograniczy w regionie Międzymorza (notatki wstępne)

“This land was Mexican once/ Was Indian always/ and is./ And will be again”. El papel de la memoria colectiva en la formación del discurso feminista chicano

Konstrukty cywilizacji i metafizyka transfiguracji w twórczości Romany Kaszczyc

„Heimat is Heimat“: “Homeland” As a Theme in the Memory of German Inhabitants who Have Remained in the Czech Lands

Review of Teresa Willenborg’s book "Fremd in der Heimat. Deutsche im Nachkriegspolen 1945-1958"

Languages of borderlands, borders of languages: Native and foreign language use in intergroup contact between Czechs and their neighbours

Czy istnieje człowiek pogranicza? Społeczny portret młodzieży na pograniczach w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej

А Вісла дале плыне Петра Мурянкы – автобіоґрафія як реінвенцийний міф

Missionaries and Borderlands: «The Mission Play» and Missionary Practices in Alta California

Dziewiętnastowieczna rodzina urzędnicza w rozproszeniu. Samotność, wyobcowanie, niepewność w codzienności kresowej inteligencji urzędniczej