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Based upon the original application to the European Commission, this article gives insights into the thinking of the Euroidentities team at the point that the project began. The question: Is the European ‘identity project’ failing? is posed in the sense that the political and economic attainments of the European Union have not been translated into a sense of identity with or commitment to Europe from the populaces that have benefited from them. The urgency of European ‘identity work’ is asserted with a number of levels for the construction of European identity being hypothesized. Euroidentities is intended to break conceptual ground by bringing together on an equal footing two apparently antagonistic views of identity – the collective and institutional and the individual and biographical – to give a more anchored and nuanced view of identity formation and transformation than either can provide on its own. Rather than following the dominant approaches to research on European identity that have been macro-theoretical and ‘top-down’, retrospective in-depth qualitative biographical interviews are planned since they provide the ideal means of gaining insight into the formation of a European identity or multiple identities from the ‘bottom up’ perspective of non-elite groups. The reliability of analysis will be buttressed by the use of contrastive comparison between cases, culminating in contrastive comparison across the national project teams between cases drawn from different ‘sensitized groups’ that provide the fieldwork structure of the project. The paper concludes with a summary of some of the more significant findings.
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Artykuł powstał na podstawie aplikacji złożonej do Komisji Europejskiej przez zespół Euroidentities. Punktem wyjścia było tu pytanie o aktualny status „projektu“ tożsamości europejskiej w sytuacji gdy proces integracji obejmujący sfery ekonomiczną i polityczną nie przekładał się na budowanie poczucia tożsamości europejskiej. Propozycja badawcza pokazywała, iż odgórnie zaprojektowane z perspektywy elit (top down) działania, których celem jest tworzenie tożsamości europejskiej nie znajdują odzwierciedlenia w potocznym doświadczeniu zwykłych obywateli budujących poczucie identyfikacji przez biograficzne doświadczanie Europy. Artykuł przedstawia najważniejsze założenia projektu oraz sposób jego realizacji.
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The paper discusses transformation of professional identity of individuals who have chosen work activity that is not traditional for their gender. Participants of our research are male social workers in Lithuania. The study on change of professional identity of male social workers presented in this article has revealed that the process of becoming a social worker among males is a sequence of complex decisions and experiences accompanied by critical incidents and changes in their life trajectories and learning careers. Trajectories of educational experience and life events of the research participants have revealed the choice in favour of non-traditional occupation as a defeat of traditional gender division of labour by opposing to “normality” – by undergoing and overcoming the crisis. One of interesting aspects of analysis is the issue of experiences occurring in the course of deviation from standardized, predetermined and preset life journey, i.e. normative biography. Such a complexity is caused by ideal norms of hegemonic masculinity that frame actual social structures and are introduced into the processes of socialization and habituation with the aim to form dominant masculine habitus. Analysis of biographical narratives of male social workers have disclosed learning careers and at the same time the balancing of the males between the normative trajectory of masculine behaviour and striving to find their own “self ”.
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The main goal of this paper is to explain how the group of so-called Namibian Czechs identifies itself and how it expresses the feeling of belonging to a specific identity in its narrative. The paper is based on the analysis of biographical narrative, which was obtained by the method of oral history, and it also contains information from archival sources and participant observation. The respondents are members of a group of fifty-six children war refugees, who were educated and accommodated in Czechoslovakia between 1985 and 1991. It was a part of internationalsolidarity aid, provided to liberation movements with communist orientation. The analysis of the biographical narrative of the respondents provides us with information about the specific individual reflection on processes of self-identification and a multiplicity of certain identities.
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The author of the article discusses the subject of a spoken biography. These considerations are based on recordings of the accounts of the witnesses to history, gathered in the Oral History Archive of the "Remembrance and Future" Center. The free narratives of the witnesses are analyzed using the structure of a written biography, the basic elements of which are identified using the statements of individual people. On this basis, the author concludes about the existence of a spoken biography as a specific way of telling about the course of one's own life, which the interlocutors unconsciously construct as a written equivalent. The background of the analyzes is a discussion of theoretical-literary studies on the genre as a text pattern and the characteristics of the basic differences between written and spoken language.
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Autorka artykułu podejmuje rozważania na temat życiorysu mówionego. Bazują one na nagraniach relacji świadków historii, zgromadzonych w Archiwum Historii Mówionej Ośrodka „Pamięć i Przyszłość”. Swobodne narracje świadków historii analizowane są tutaj za pomocą struktury życiorysu pisemnego, którego podstawowe elementy identyfikowane są w wypowiedziach poszczególnych osób. Na tej podstawie Autorka wnioskuje o istnieniu życiorysu mówionego jako specyficznego sposobu opowiadania o przebiegu własnego życia, który rozmówcy nieświadomie konstruują na wzór pisemnego odpowiednika. Tło analiz stanowi omówienie teoretyczno-literackich opracowań dotyczących gatunku jako wzorca tekstowego oraz charakterystyka podstawowych różnic między językiem pisanym a mówionym.
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Based on biographical interviews with people with Polish roots, born in the Second Polish Republic, this article discusses constructing the image of the Others in interwar Eastern Galicia. Focusing on interethnic relations, it also describes the socio-cultural specificity of this area and presents it as a cultural borderland. Referring to these narratives, this article demonstrates the processes that affect the duality of how the Others – Jews and Ukrainians – have been remembered in Eastern Galicia.
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Artykuł przedstawia problematykę wizerunku Innych i stosunków międzyetnicznych w między wojennej Galicji Wschodniej. Materiałem badawczym są narracje biograficzne osób o polskich korzeniach, urodzonych w II RP, dziś obywateli polskich i ukraińskich. W tekście zarysowano także charakter społeczno-kulturowy tego pogranicza kulturowego. Na przykładzie narracji do tyczących Żydów i Ukraińców przedstawiono w tekście procesy wpływające na dwoistość pamięci rozmówców o Innych na obszarze Galicji Wschodniej.
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