Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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ISSN 2084-3364
e-ISSN: 2300-7109
Issue Date
2020
Volume
T. 19
Number
Nr 4
Description
Journal Volume
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
T. 19 (2020)
Projects
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Articles
Consumer tricks and strategies among Polish migrants in Belfast, Northern Ireland
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Kempny, Marta
This paper examines practices and strategies of consumption among Polish migrants in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Bridging theoretical perspectives on postmodernism, transnationalism and consumer society, the author discusses extent to which consumerism among Polish migrants can be seen as their way of integration with the local community in Northern Ireland. Focusing on conspicuous and inconspicuous consumption, this article explores the reasons why migrants take on the local consumption practices. Furthermore it examines migrants' attempts to increase their social status, and display wealth through their engagement in consumer culture. Next, differences in Polish and local consumption patterns are teased out. Following this, the author links consumerism among Polish migrants to their embeddedness in local, transnational and global spheres. This research adopts 30 in-depth interviews.
Od outsiderów do lokalnych patriotów. W jakim stopniu urodzeni za granicą badacze i wykładowcy czują się związani z Polską?
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Łuczaj, Kamil
The paper discusses the issue of the national identity of foreign-born academic employees working in Poland. Based on 100 in-depth interviews, it answers the question »to what extent foreign-born researchers feel Polish and declare to be a part of the Polish academic community«, and analyses why do they feel like insiders. While the interviewees relatively rarely felt Polish, they quite often declared belonging to the Polish academic community. The way they presented their place within these two communities raises the question of the appropriateness of the general category of »insiders«, because foreign-born academics turned out to be a very diverse community. Some of them treated Poland instrumentally – as a stage of their academic careers, but some became Polish patriots. Paradoxically, the latter opted for local science without supporting internationalization.
Search for universalism in regional narrative. The case of the new permanent exhibition in the Upper Silesian Museum (Muzeum Śląskie) in Katowice
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Jodliński, Leszek Janusz
In 2012 politicians and some historians blocked the first (after 1989) permanent exhibition of the history of Upper Silesia. TIts history turned out to be much more controversial and went beyond the framework of storytelling in a museum. Guidelines of the exhibition scenario have been consulted from 2010 with specialists and in the course of focus surveys. Result of the research and experts' opinions defined modern history (19th and 20th c.) as key period for understanding the heritage of the region. The authors of the project wanted to replace national and regional myths by new categories of two leading universal interpretation such as modernity and industrialization The authors wanted to show the history of Silesia from the perspective of Poland, Germany and Czechia for their cultural presence etc. was significant in its history. The project was rejected and the script resigned from a multinational and European perspective.
Wielokulturowość Nowej Huty
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Majcherek, Janusz A.
A city in itself is a multicultural structure. This concerns specially cities founded or developed during intensive industrialization, connected to rapid growth of population. In spite of standardizing urbanization processes and the ideological doctrine imposed by the communist regime, the society of Nowa Huta has also been revealing attributes of multiculturality typical of urban immigration centers. However, it represents its specific variation resulting from the time and place where it was located and has been developing.
Ja-chłopka, ja-miastowa. Doświadczenie migracji ze wsi do miast w pamiętnikarskich relacjach kobiet w Polskiej Rzeczpospolitej Ludowej
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Gospodarczyk, Marta
This article aims to describe the processes of identity changes of rural-urban women migrants in the 1950s and 60's Poland. Based on an analysis of diaries, two ways of creating one’s identity in the context of social images of the rural and the urban, as well as social constructs of femininity in urban and rural settings will be described. Two models of migration process will be presented based on two diaristic narrations, analyzed with tools associated with the biographical method. Diaries will be examined in the context of contemporary modernization discourse, in opposition to conventional binary images of the rural (»backward«, traditional) and the urban (modern, active), as well as femininity models associated with rural and urban spaces. The article aims to present the female experience of migration and ways of adapting to a new lifestyle.