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To Recover Liberalism. Review of a book by Andrzej Walicki Od projektu komunistycznego do neoliberalnej utopii (From the Communist Project to the Neoliberal Utopia), Warszawa: Universitas 2013This review discusses a recent book by Andrzej Walicki, Od projektu komunistycznego do neoliberalnej utopii (From the Communist Project to the Neoliberal Utopia) (Warszawa: Universitas 2013). The book features a...
Jews in the discourse of the Catholic ChurchThe article describes the most important changes which appeared after the Second Vatican Council in the discourse of the Catholic Church in reference to its attitude to confessors of Judaism. The change is the difference between the state of texts in two different moments, which is why the first part of the article is dedicated to the characteristics of...
Memory acquired. The conception of the Polish experience of the Holocaust as collective trauma in the light of a revision of the concept of bystanderThe paper provides a reconstruction and proposes the deconstruction of the conception of the Polish experience of the Holocaust as collective trauma. The analytical framework is based on the revision of concepts such as Polish witness (bystander/onlooker...
PoemsKwiatkowski’s poems resemble the spirit of The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, The Chronicles of the Town of Pornic by Czesław Miłosz, and uprising poems by Anna Świrszczyńska. The author is interested in the mask lyric and attempts to lead his poetry in to the domain of fact, while neither leaving the sphere of poetry nor entering the sphere of journalism. WierszePoezja utrzymana...
“So what?” Bożena Keff, Magda Szcześniak, Tomasz Tomasik & Błażej Warkocki in a conversation with Anna ZawadzkaIn April 2013, the Polish Press Agency published an article in which Elżbieta Janicka proposed a new interpretations of Stones on the barricades. She claimed i.a.: ”Since we are deliberating, placed in a ho-mophobic culture, where questioning someone’s heterosexual orientation is not...
Andrzej Draguła Bluźnierstwo. Między grzechem a przestępstwem (Blasphemy: between sin and offence) – a book review by Jakub DąbrowskiThe text is a review of the book Bluźnierstwo. Między grzechem a przestępstwem by Andrzej Draguła, a priest and Doctor of Theology. He reflects on the conflict between Catholic orthodoxy and liberal social practices in the domains of art and visual culture. Apart from...
Violence and religion. Blasphemy in Islam presented on Polish web portals The aim of the paper is to analyse the representations of blasphemy in Islam presented on popular Polish web portals. Critical Discourse Analysis was applied. The analysis included representations of the blasphemy cases and of the accused, both male and female. The analysed material was interpreted in the light of Judith Butler...
„I cannot be a priest of a district God.” An interview with Rev. Wojciech Lemański by Joanna Tokarska-Bakir and Michał Pawilno-PacewiczOver the past few years the Polish media have informed about disagreements between Rev. Wojciech Lemański and the Polish Catholic Church hierarchy. In the interview in 2013, Rev. Wojciech Lemański told us about the reasons of his conflict and persecutions within the...
Another sociological utopia The polemics between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was originally published in Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews no 40/4 as Debate on International Sociology. The starting point of discussion between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was the publication entitled Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology (Volume One: Introduction, Latin...
Reply to Krzysztof PersakThis is a reply to the review of author’s book Miasta śmierci. Sąsiedzkie pogromy Żydów [Cities of death. Jewish pogroms by neighbors] penned by Dr Krzysztof Persak in Zagłada Żydów (2016).Odpowiedź Krzysztofowi PersakowiOdpowiedź na recenzję książki autora, Miasta śmierci. Sąsiedzkie pogromy Żydów, pióra dra Krzysztofa Persaka, zamieszczoną w czasopiśmie „Zagłada Żydów” (2016).
From rejection to praise of irony. Dorota Masłowska in her search of “we”The adventures of Dorota Masłowska, experienced between her novels Snow White and Russian Red and Honey, I Killed Our Cats, show a world where capitalism is the only way of organising reality. At the same time, it is a power affecting all types of relations: among people and between people and the world. The motif connecting...
The hidden (2010)Łukasz Konopa’s film is devoted to the Righteous, their fate after World War II and the problem of memory about Jews. Shot as a part of an anthropological and historical research project concerning memory about Jews in provincial Poland. Using the ethnographic interview method, the author attempts to record accounts of events which transpired during the Nazi occupation of Poland and...
BystronaliaNowa odsłona SLH powstała pod patronatem Jana Stanisława Bystronia, jednego z niewielu polskich etnografów świadomych szkodliwości megalomanii narodowej i irracjonalności przesądów dotyczących obcych. Etnografia w odmianie Volkskunde rozwijała się w krajach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej przeważnie na podłożu volkizmu. Etnografia Bystronia była jednym z chwalebnych wyjątków od tej reguły.
The Embassy of Poland in Poland: The Polin Myth in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (MHPJ) as narrative pattern and model of minority-majority relationsThe text offers an analysis of the MHJP’s core exhibition, the architecture of the Museum’s building as well as the transformations of its surroundings, seen as operations in as well as on a space that is a sign and a designate of the Holocaust...
Polin: "Ultimate Lost Object”The article is a critique of the POLIN Museum’s contemporary exhibition, which – according to the author – suppresses the most difficult aspect of Polish-Jewish past, the ones associated with the violence of the pogroms that were the decisive factor in the greatest waves of Jewish emigration from Poland.Polin: „Ultimate Lost Object”Tekst stanowi krytykę projektu wystawy...
Tervuren. The Belgian MirrorThe paper describes the history and the ideology of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, founded in 1898. The role of the museum and its exhibition is analysed in the context of Belgian history, taking into account the tensions between Flemings and Walloons as well as changes in the attitude towards Africa and Africans. The author proposes to divide...
Wall and window: the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto as the narrative space of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish JewsOpened in 2013, the Warsaw-based POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is situated in the center of the former Nazi Warsaw ghetto, which was destroyed during its liquidation in 1943. The museum is also located opposite to the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and Martyrs, built...
Trzcianne – a case study. The Polish-Polish war over Jews in witness accountsŁukasz Konopa endeavors to reconstruct the process of the annihilation of Trzcianne, a town where the Jewish population was dominant before 1939. This case study is based on ethnographic interviews conducted presently with members of the Wasilewski family, the Righteous among the Nations, who both witnessed and participated...
“Kill the Indian in the Child.” On cultural genocide and transitional justice in Canada. Kate Korycki in an interview by Anna ZawadzkaThis is an interview with Kate Korycki on the reparations for the native population in Canada for what the Canadian government defined as “cultural genocide.” Kate Korycki was born in Warsaw and has lived in Toronto for 25 years. Until 2006 she worked for the Canadian...
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