Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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ISSN 2084-3364
e-ISSN: 2300-7109
Issue Date
2011
Volume
T. 10
Number
Nr 2
Description
Journal Volume
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
T. 10 (2011)
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Articles
Sympatie polityczne Greków urodzonych w Polsce a pamięć o PRL
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2011) Mycielska-Środoń, Maria
After the Greek civil war in the late 1940s and early 1950s around 15,000 communist partisans were brought to Poland and granted the status of political refugees. Most lived in Poland through the late 1970s, when returning to Greece became a possibility. The article analyzes political preferences of the children of partisans (persons born in the 1950s of two Greek parents). I propose possible factors explaining variation in the political affinities of my subjects, such as perception of family background and history, integration with Polish society, decisions regarding returning (or not) to Greece in the late 1970s, and their relation to assessment of the legacy of communist Poland.
Tropami pamięci - wstępne uwagi na temat tożsamości w biografiach krymskich Tatarów
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2011) Borowik, Irena
The article is devoted to the preliminary analysis of biographical interviews, taken with representatives of Crimean Tatars returning to Crimean Peninsula and settling in the places that they or their ancestors used to live before deportation. The research was conducted in summer of 2008 and 2009, 20 interviews were taken with consideration of age, sex, place of living and level of education. Traces of memory are understood in this article as repeatable elements of biographical narratives. By this virtue those repeated elements refer not only to individual identity but they also build collective identity, more precisely national in this case. The key element of the article is the third part of it where relations between memory and identity are explored in collected biographies. As it appeared in all life-stories deportation from Crimea and return after years are crucial elements of construction of biographies and in all cases it has a form of trajectories. The general conclusion is that memory of these painful events and celebration of it is functional for building the strong collective identity which is based on traditional values, religious and political integration of national minority.
Serbołużyczanie - naród w trosce o przetrwanie
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2011) Jonda, Bernadette
The following article deals with the current situation of the Sorbs – a Slavic ethnic group leaving in Lusatia, which is a region belonging to former East Germany. The development of this ethnic group – starting from the end of the 19th century and considering both Nazi times and former East Germany situation – will be shown. The article discusses on the one hand the attempts to maintain the Sorbian language, among others due to the activities of the Language Centre WITAJ, and on the other hand it stresses the consequences of the brown coal mining in the region of Lusatia. In addition, the attitude of German natives towards the Sorbs is analysed. On basis of the own research conducted by the author in the year 2010 near the Sorbian town Slepo (ger. Schleife), dilemmas of the local people, who feel dependent on energy concern Vattenfall, are shown. Although the concern guarantees work places, it also jeopardizes the existence of local people’s houses and the cultivation of the Sorbian tradition. The coal mines destroy the natural and social environment. More and more villages are demolished and social networks are being broken by people’s displacements. The current situation makes the Sorbs even more cautious about their own culture and motivates them to fight for their cultural survival.
Przyszłość Łemków w Polsce – szanse i zagrożenia w subiektywnej wizji przedstawicieli społeczności łemkowskiej
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2011) Królewski, Jarosław
The main subject of the article is a subjective vision of the Lemkos minority representatives on the future of this community, plotted from the perspective of contemporary times, based on personal experiences, thoughts and fears of Lemkos. The article is based on research among Lemkos community initiated in 2007 and finalized in 2009–2010. The study was particularly designed to clarify whether and how the Lemkos are able to build and protect their culture and tradition, how the Lemkos define their view and the most important elements that make up the multidimensional sense of cultural identity. The study was carried out using biographical interviews (IDI), and partly standardized. Author of the article, as a member of the Lemkos community, analyzes the Lemkos community from the perspective. Conclusions concern only specific group of interviewed people, so that can not be generalized to the entire Lemkos minority.
Wielość kultur, różnorodność tradycji, jedno społeczeństwo - szwedzki model polityki integracyjnej
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2011) Banaś, Monika
The article examines the case of integration policy implemented in contemporary Sweden. The model has evolved from the 1960s undergoing a large number of transformations dictated by factors such as demographics, labor market structure, public sentiments towards foreigners, the concepts of economic development, political system, domestic politics and foreign policy of the Kingdom of Sweden. The focus has been directed on the constructing process of a cohesive society made up of groups with different ethnic, national, cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds.