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STOCKHOLM'S EXPERIENCE: MAKING ROOM FOR ADOPTED HOME (Doswiadczenie Sztokholmu: dom zaadoptowany)

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Klosinska M.

Anthropos?

2011

issue 16-17

162-168

The Essay 'Stockholm's experience: making room for rooting' institutes a wide aspect concern about issue connected with metropolitan city experience, hospitality and rooting. The Author confirms, that Stockholm is a unique metropolitan city founded on upturned order, where aspects of city corporeality turns into a great machinery, full of conscious mechanisms. From the first volume she tried to describe Stockholm using only one word, and at the beginning it was 'reserved', but later she found others as 'well organized' or 'distinct'. The Rareness of this city shows that each word is like mirror, which makes an accurate perspective of whole city structure. Author confirms, that using these words it is possible to make a view about this great Scandinavian metropolitan city. The Second these shows that also using this words, it is possible to make a reflection about rooting and hospitality on three separated areas: cultural, urban, political. So far, meditation has considered on the people, who live in Stockholm. Author has convinced, that Stockholm citizen's attitude is favorable, when we talk about rooting or domestication. Stockholm's people way of life has seduced and magnetized into the city in very strongly sense. As the final result Stockholm experience making an impression for tourist or stranger, that this metropolitan has a one rule - each citizen presents these, that city is a state of mind and Stockholm also is the state of strangers' mind. This specific construction attracts strangers, tourists seduces and builds a vision - the metropolitan city which has its own order, which is located in English phrase - the city of whole consuming thought. Author describes Stockholm experience using word 'absorbing', this is a key word, which explains possibility of rooting and hospitality in this metropolitan city. Stockholm makes a place, which has not making strangers home-sickness, even nostalgic. On the contrary - citizen has made a space and room for better life and better place to live, but this is possible only through research which are connected with the rooting aspect. After one day of visiting Stockholm, author marks feelings, which are connected with this experience and gives such as these, that beyond facts such as that Stockholm is not her born place, her own place or place connected with her life start opportunity. It does not matter, because she thinks about this city as her home. Author confirms, that she is not a Swedish, but she percepts Stockholm as a place of her way back.

The limit of the urban

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Klosinska M.

Anthropos?

2010

issue 14-15

34-39

In this dispute author has confirmed, that in the newest anthropological and sociological scientific research the idea of urban notion is the own subject of cognitive paradigm, which contain the modern city. Moreover, author thinks, that urban constitutes and makes boundary lines in which claims the name theater mundi - also has known as the part of theater of the human life. The Author quotes article written by Louis Wirth called Urbanism as a way of life, who defined the urban as a crucial moment, which consist of the boundary line in the city and all paradigm concerns about the movement of city exploration. The Essay has concentrated on the ways, which present urban as the specific city attribute. The Author thinks, that city or metropolitan city at all give much more freedom, than life in the country, but man have to prepare, that when he will choose living in the metropolitan city, he will be feel as the Stranger. This way convict him to apathy, loneliness, alienation and even extreme melancholy. The Urbanity experience put pressure on the alienation, which can be understand, as the disintegration. The Next issue treats "urban place" as the agora in the modern city. In this way city and metropolitan city constitutes fortified "center" or even central point, which has existed in faint boundaries. Through the urban, man can try understand the space and concept of the city in a wide open ways, because as the author has convinced - urban makes the boundary line as the etymology. The Urban as the main category is the crucial point, which explain the city character. In fact, author thinks, that this way shows, that urban always will be in present time for the mentality of residents. This Essay was trying to confirm, that urban is very helpful, when it is necessary to know and find experience point in the boundary lines. The Urban - as the author shows - mostly presents and marks metropolitans ability vision. That is why, in the last conclusion, author quotes Roland Barthes's work - because he confirmed, that vision or "to see something" means - to get in the right place.

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