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The paper presents the profile of an outstanding researcher of the country-wide and a deserved activist of the People’s Movement who was closely related to the prominent figure of this movement i.e. Wincenty Witos. So far, information about life and activity of that scholar was scarce and came only from dictionary publishers. This text, however, puts special focus not only on Professors’ scientific achievements, but also on his dramatic fate during the Stalinist period. Similar to many persecuted people at those times, in order to resume his research career he had to conceal his past as a People’s Movement activist, agrarian and supporter of liberal-democratic system.
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Analysing the programmes implemented in recent years to support various measures for local development, improvement of living conditions in rural areas or business activities in rural areas, the author finds that both the broadly understood concepts of ‘village renewal’ and ‘activation of local communities’ have been anchored in legislation and in the government’s programme documents. The smart village concept has also recently been included in the objectives of financial support for rural development. A prerequisite for the successful implementation of this concept is to further increase the availability of information and communication technologies in rural areas.
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The article attempts to show selected collections of professional vocabulary contained in the first three novels by Wiesław Myśliwski. Creating his characters and the world in which they function, the author used the vocabulary characteristic of occupations and activities related to the countryside and farm. The study is of little survey nature to outline areas for further analyzes of professional lexis in the writer’s novels.
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In this article I analyse two newest books by Małgorzata Musierowicz from the series Jeżycjada:Wnuczka do orzechów (2014) and Feblik(2015). Action of Jeżycjadatakes place in Poznań and its surroundings. Actually in the last two books action takes place mainly in this surroundings – at the countryside. Borejko family (main characters of the series) is spending there definitely more time than in the city. Seniors decided to go out of city. The result od this decision is that the centre of characters’ life has relocated. City is described as human’s enemy and countryside as a friendly space. In my article I interpret fragments which are describing this two areas. I answer the question why characters decided to move out form Poznań and stay at the countryside and how this change affects Borejko family.
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The paper analyses the problem of a rural region in the peripheral position. Bojkovice micro-region on the Czech (Moravian)-Slovak border has been chosen as a case study. Economic transformation of productive and non-productive branches, demographic development (depopulation and aging) and networking in the area were characterized by using statistical data and field research. Development, understood as improvement in quality of life and not in sense of quantitative growth, is highlighted with regard to the changing perception of the countryside. The question remains: how to use peripherality for prosperity? Peripheral countryside is known as “the right countryside” in comparison to suburbanized and globalized countryside in core regions. Based on the research, production embedded in local sources and traditions, ecological agriculture using the protection of landscape and soft tourism are proposed as solutions. Networking like the association of municipalities, LEADER local action group or White Carpathian Euroregion could be the instruments of micro-regional collaboration. The human and social factors seem to be more important than objective conditions. Long-term population stability is the main advantage. However, a lower level of formal education could be a problem. The character of social capital is considered as a decisive circumstance - whether it is passive social capital resistant to outer innovations or active social capital open for now ideas.
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In 2015 I published a book “Sex in the Period of Darkness”, which was reviewed by Josef Grulich (The Czech Historical Review 113, 2015, pp. 827–834). I consider his review to have been written without both the knowledge of the topic and the wealth of documentation available. This text is an objective reply to his non-objective review and points out a number of Grulich’s blatant mistakes, insinuations and (deliberate?) misrepresentations.
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This article deals with the until now research of the possession of serf immoveable properties on the territories of Bohemia and Moravia. Attention is being paid to primary sources and methodological approaches suitable for investigating the transfer of rural homesteads throughout the Early Modern Age and the 19th century. The current study deals with the issues of inheritance law; the transfer of homestead farms within a family itself; the choice of new farmers and the departure of the older generation’s members in exchange for the creation of an easement (in Czech výměnek). The aim of this contribution is to summarize the results of contemporary research; to draw attention to themes as yet not investigated and to outline possible perspectives for further research taking account of topical historiographical trends abroad.
Society Register
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2018
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vol. 2
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issue 2
85-106
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This article tackles that question of the place of Nature as an idea and Life in Nature as a reality in the education philosophy of Janusz Korczak. First, we establish the idea that Korczak was a naturalistic philosopher and that nature in its broad cosmic sense serves as the ordering principle of his entire pedagogical legacy. Influenced by Stoic philosophy, Korczak rejects transcendence and sees the human being in the only context possible, nature.Following this paradigm, we establish Korczak's education as a reality guided pedagogy. The nature of the child mandates education and not free unrealistic aspirations. The nature of the child, his family, his biography in its broadest sense also set the limits of what can be achieved through education.At last, we follow Korczak's appreciation of nature and countryside experience as a healing experience for poverty inner city children. There, in nature, in free play, work and sport, they regain their physical and mental health. There Korczak also had his best opportunity to learn the child and to develop his known educational ideas, which he later on implemented in his children houses.
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The aim of this article is to examine the interactions among main cities and the rural communities subordinate to them in central Italy during Late Middle Age. Premise of my work is the refusal of the assumption that cities and towns interacted between them as a whole. I choose Orvieto and its subordinate town of Bagnoregio in 1303 and 1304 as case study to enlighten that parties and faction based in the city and in the town interacted in ways that it is impossible to reduce to the dichotomy masterservant: this links as a whole shaped the dialogue between the city and its subordinates.
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The study deals with public order protection in the Czechoslovak countryside in the decade before the fall of the communist government in 1989. It focuses on the contact between the local community’s shared social values and the principles governed by the socialist state at the local level. It discusses the care for good reputation and the reflection of social hierarchy and stereotypical views based on it in notes from meetings of public order commissions of local and national committees. It puts the care for a decent municipality at the end of the 1980s into the broader contexts of social changes as a reaction to industrialization and modernization. The author concludes that principles of social control in late socialism did not contradict the social values of rural communities. The analysis of archive sources also shows the influence of the inefficiency of the state socialist administration in being able to care for public order.
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At the end of the 19th century, the teaching profession was the aspiration of many peasant sons. The position of a teacher ensured a modest but quite stable income. A Lithuanian, born in 1989, Stanislaw Keturakis, was one of graduates of the Teachers’ College in Wejwery near Kaunas. This institution offered a state scholarship. In return for this financial help, its graduates had to accept posts in primary schools determined by educational authorities. A few graduates of this school, mostly Lithuanians, were sent to work in village schools of Piotrków province. One of them, Stanislaw Keturakis, began his first teaching job in a school in Jedlno. He was confronted with difficult living conditions, the school was only planned to be built. At this time, he married Józefa Birsztejn and they had two sons: Eugeniusz Józef (1901) and Zdzisław Aleksander (1904). Peasants perceived teachers as tsarist officials. In 1901, S. Keturakis was transferred to Mstów, to work as a teacher, then to Wancerzów, and again back to Jedlno. Taking over a position of a teacher in Zagórze (1907) was clearly a promotion. The school belonged to the private property of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, a brother of Emperor Nicholas II. The last stage of S. Keturakis’s teaching career was his work in a school in Zagórze. Working there in the years 1907–1914, he taught Russian, Polish, Arithmetic, History and Geography. At the end of the summer 1914, he got an opportunity to take over the post of the forester’s assistant in Orłow province, but the outbreak of the war made it impossible. Lack of any sources does not allow us to determine what the further life of Stanislaw Keturakis was like.
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Countryside, as an area and place of living of the increasing number of people undergoes numerous changes, including: the reduction of the area of countryside, the increase of the number of rural population and the level of infrastructure, the deepening of diversification of activity and of main sources of living of the population. These processes take place under the influence of internal (domestic) and external factors. The European Union supports activation and renewal of rural areas. For the years 2007- -2013 there was developed the program which became a design supporting four priority axes. The first axis is of a commercial nature and its aim is to improve the competitiveness of the agricultural and forestry sector. The second axis is associated with ecological and environmental considerations and focuses on the improvement of environment. The third axis contains social values and directs efforts to improve the quality of life of population in rural areas and at the same time aspirations to diversify the rural economy. The fourth axis applies to local community. The program defines the scope and forms of rural support for the years 2007-2013. It is financed both from the EU and the national public funds. The aim of the study was to: identify change trends within the Polish countryside in terms of territory and population, to state if the membership of Poland to the European Union contributes to the development of rural areas and agriculture as well as if there is deepening of diversification of activities in rural areas and progress in the country evolution from agricultural to multifunctional. The collected material was developed and interpreted using comparative methods (comparisons) in the form of vertical and horizontal, statistical and relative valorization of infrastructure elements. The range of rural areas in Poland is isolated by the register called TERYT and in the years 2003-2011 shows the reduction of rural area and its share in the area of Poland while increasing the number of residents and increasing their share in the total population of the country. With a view to integrate the Polish countryside with the areas of the European Union the series of political and economic decisions were taken both at EU and national level. Poland, including rural areas, began to benefit from the EU funds (such as SAPARD, PHARE and ISPA) before its accession to the EU. After the accession, the scale of these funds multiplied, which served the changes in the countryside economically and socially. The effect of these changes is the increased level of technical and social infrastructure in rural areas, making up for delays in this area and the acceleration of the transition towards the multilateralism. The result is an increase in employment of the rural population in the activities of non-agricultural nature and the assimilation of structure of the rural population in terms of the main sources of income to the national average.
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The author of this essay argues that, when viewed from a longer time perspective, four major processes have been taking place in the Polish countryside, changing its character, just as they have been doing in other Western and Eastern European countries: deruralization, deagrarianization, development of a new model of agriculture (peasantization/depeasantization) and restratification. These processes are changing 1) the place of the countryside in society, 2) the place of agriculture in society and the economy as well as 3) the structure of the countryside as a social subsystem. These changes have been taking place throughout the last two decades, albeit with different speeds in different segments of time. Three of these processes, deruralization, deagrarianization and restratification, are continuations of processes which were already in motion before 1989. Their dynamics do not differ from the Western and Central- Eastern European canon. A fourth,more original process can also be detected in the development of a new agrarian model, however, adjustment of the post-communist structure of agricultural production to market economy.
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This article highlights some of the challenges the nascent Florentine territorial state faced in the second half of the fourteenth century, after it was visited with the Great Plague of 1348. When mercenaries began to cross the territory, and the ruling class found itself unable to handle this kind of emergency, the exurban population turned to forms of self-defence. These initiatives resemble the coeval ones undertaken by the Tuchins in Normandy or those in Languedoc and southern Piedmont.
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The nature of the relation between city and countryside in medieval Italy was unique by comparison with the rest of Europe. Precisely for this reason, the question has drawn the attention of historiography, particularly starting in the early twentieth century, with the scholarship of Gaetano Salvemini and Gioacchino Volpe, and especially Romolo Caggese, the author of Classi e comuni rurali nel Medio Evo italiano (Rural classes and city communes in the Italian Middle Ages). This work long stood as a critical touchstone: it did so at least until the 1960s, when a new historiographical season set in – with monographs, essays, and conference proceedings – that gave us a much richer frame of understanding, while opening a larger debate on the question, which to this day remains a central concern of historiographical investigation.
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The authors recall the genesis of the term of “sustainable development” and its complex evolution over the past decades until its contemporary meaning covering humans and their economy and culture, the natural environment, and the cultural landscape. The examples analysed in the text are two municipalities in the New Castile Community of Madrid (Spain) and their capitals: El Chinchón and Colmenar de Oreja, which are hidden in the shadow of Madrid and have been declining until recent times. Over the past several years, they and their surroundings have been experiencing a period of peaceful and harmonious development, which can be associated with sustainable development.
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Autorzy tekstu przypominają genezę terminu „rozwój zrównoważony” i jego zawiłą ewolucję w minionych kilkudziesięciu latach aż po jego współczesne znaczenie ujmujące człowieka z jego gospodarką i kulturą, środowisko przyrodnicze i krajobraz kulturowy. Przykładami analizowanymi w tekście są dwie gminy (municypia) w Nowej Kastylii w Comunidad de Madrid (Hiszpania) wraz z ich stolicami: El Chinchón i Colmenar de Oreja, skryte w cieniu Madrytu, do niedawna podupadające. W ostatnich kilkunastu latach przeżywają one, wraz z ich najbliższym otoczeniem, okres spokojnego, harmonijnego rozwoju, który z powodzeniem można utożsamiać z rozwojem zrównoważonym.
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Dance parties constitute a field that concisely reflected the processes of modernization and urbanization of the Czech countryside in the 1970s and 1980s. Dance parties can also be perceived as places that have maintained their stable position in the hierarchy of values and ideas accepted by local inhabitants, which are, among other things, associated with the viability of their own community. This was possible due to the symbolic function of dance parties – phenomena with symbolic significance are endowed with high adaptability to changes. The stable significance of dance parties for a community can be exemplified by discussions conducted in the fields of space, generations, and power. These discussions understand dance parties as a subject based on which ideas about the ability of a community to function are communicated. The symbolic function of dance parties is the reason their existence is not called into question. This paper is based on doctoral field research, which was carried out in two different locations – in a small rural town facing more intensive processes of modernization and in two rural municipalities (everything though is set in a wider regional context).
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This study is a reflection on the quality of life of the countryside dwellers in the Polish–German borderland. It has been assumed that the assessment made is conditioned by the consequences of changes within the functioning of the state borders. Based on the findings from the research conducted in 1993 and 2010, an analysis of the changes of social reality in the place of the countryside dwellers’ residence was made, followed by an attempt to define determinants of the attitude of the countryside dwellers towards given social, economic and political aspects of the reality, as assessed and expressed by them.
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In her article, the author states that the topic of countryside in Russian lit-erature has been addressed for a long period of time and this is continued on a contemporary basis, as exemplified by literary works of new realist, including Zakhar Prilepin (Sankhja, short stories from the collection Eight) and Irina Mamaeva (Lenka’s Wedding, The Land of Gai). The depiction of countryside pre-sented by these writers is negative in meaning as descriptions of both rural life conditions and spatial elements are dominated by motifs of destruction and decay. People leaving here do not have any opportunities or hope for improvement of their lives and cannot adjust to the reality following the political transformations. Showing the vanishing of patriarchal tradition, Prilepin and Mamaeva attempt at some kind of dispute with the representatives of rural prose of the 1960s and 1970s.
Praktyka Teoretyczna
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2013
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vol. 10
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issue 4
41-64
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In my article I am trying to explore ways in which Polish feminismcan expand its knowledge about woman living in the countryside. To this purposeI recall theories from black feminist thought and postcolonial studies which helpto enrich subaltern epistemologies. To renegotiate regimes of visibility, which limitour imagination, I use these theories to analyze pop culture representations of rurality(documentary Warszawa do wzięcia and docusoap Chłopaki do wzięcia). Referring tobell hooks’ theory of the margin and to postcolonial writings of Gayatri ChakravortySpivak and Donna Haraway’s concept of situated knowledges, which all helpto develop our knowledge about different kinds of oppression and their intersectionality,I want to draw attention to these dimensions of sexism which don’t fit intorigid categories of “problems faced by woman from big cities”.
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W moim artykule próbuję odpowiedzieć na pytanie, w jaki sposób polski feminizm mógłby poszerzać wiedzę i włączać w obszar swoich działań mieszkanki wsi. W tym celu przywołuję teorie z obszaru czarnej myśli feministycznej oraz postkolonializmu, które problematyzują epistemologię podporządkowanych. Aby renegocjować reżimy widzialności, które ograniczają naszą wyobraźnię, proponuję aplikację tych narzędzi do analizy popkulturowych reprezentacji wsi (film dokumentalny Warszawa do wzięcia oraz serial dokumentalny Chłopaki do wzięcia). Czerpiąc z teorii marginesu bell hooks, postkolonialnych krytyk Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak oraz idei wiedz usytuowanych autorstwa Donny Haraway, pomagających nam wzbogacać wiedzę o różnych rodzajach opresji i ich intersekcjonalności, chciałabym skierować uwagę czytelniczek na te wymiary seksizmu, które nie mieszczą się być może w wąskich ramach definicji „problemów kobiet z dużych miast”.
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