Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

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In the Shadow of the European Fortress. Image of the West among Africans in Guinea-Bissau

W cieniu europejskiej twierdzy. Obraz Zachodu wśród Afrykanów w Gwinei Bissau

Author(s): Magdalena Brzezińska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: anthropological fieldwork; Africans; Guineans; migration to Europe; image of the West

The book, based on anthropological fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau, explores the perception of the West by Africans. The West, or Europe, plays a dominant role in the collective imagination of Guineans. Migration to Europe is a common dream as its image is idealized. In contrast to much of the recent optimistic literature on globalisation, the author draws attention to cultural domination, a symbolic power of the image of the West.

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Two Systems of Emotions and Their Consequences for Cognitive Processes. A New Approach to Understanding the Relationships Between Emotions and Cognition and the Mind as a Whole

Dwa systemy emocji i ich konsekwencje dla procesów poznawczych. Nowe podejście do zrozumienia związków emocji i poznania oraz umysłu jako całości

Author(s): Kamil K. Imbir / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: heuristic processing; systematic processing; automatic emotions; reflective emotions; cognitive processes; duality of emotions

The book discusses a new model of interaction of emotions and cognitive processes explaining the relationships between them from the perspective of dual-system theories describing the mind’s operation in terms of automatic and controlled processes. The author presents the results of his own behavioral studies and neurophysiological measurements, which prove that emotions can lead to the deterioration or improvement of cognitive functioning.

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Globalization and Sustainable Development

Globalizaciόn y desarrollo sostenible

Author(s): / Language(s): Spanish

Keywords: sustainable development; village; city; Latin America

This volume presents different issues related to sustainable development shown within the context of globalization. A collection of selected texts discusses various theories of development, sustainability, and spatial, industrial and social policies. Most of the articles are devoted to the development of various Colombian regions.The idea of globalization brings us several images related to both professional and daily life, as well as, in general, social, political and spatial organization. The manifestations of globalization in each region and in each place are not the same and depend on a number of environmental, economic, social, political, cultural, etc. actors. Sustainable development within the context of globalization shows several faces and several alternatives of development paths within the local and regional context. This publication is the result of collaboration of the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies of University of Warsaw, Poland with the University of Manizales, Colombia.

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The Sociology of Space

Socjologia przestrzeni

Author(s): Martina Löw / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: urban sociology; sociology of space; sociology of architecture; relational concept of space; symbolic space

A relational concept of space that encompasses social structures, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension. The author assumes that space emerges through the interaction of objects, structures and actions. Löw develops a dynamic theory that explains the relational context in which space is constituted. The author’s innovative perception of interdependency of the material, social and symbolic dimension of space generates a new perspective on architecture and urban development.

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Literature and culture of the 1860s between politics and privacy. Dislocations

Literatura i kultura lat 60. XIX wieku między polityką a prywatnością. Dyslokacje

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: 1860s; 19th century; Positivism; Romanticism

The monograph discusses literary and cultural issues, important figures and historical facts concerning the 1860s. By referring to various phenomena of the literary production of the time and by revisiting some unknown texts it presents new research perspectives of that period, perceived as a time of change and uncertainty, lost opportunities, difficult choices, a verification of literary models and attitudes to life.

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Space and Citizens of Old Warsaw between the End of 15th Century and 1569

Przestrzeń i obywatele Starej Warszawy od schyłku XV wieku do 1569 roku

Author(s): Krzysztof Mrozowski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Old Warsaw; the end of Middle Ages; the Early Modern Period; Warsaw citizens; urban space

The work is a comprehensive study of the social topography of Old Warsaw at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern Period. The times are characterised by fast social and spatial changes: the area of the city expands, the functions and the names of particular city regions are formed, immigrants from all directions seek here their place to settle down.

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The Poles, the Jews and the Myth of Women Trafficking

Polacy, Żydzi i mit handlu kobietami

Author(s): Aleksandra Jakubczak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: prostitution; women trafficking; emigration; crime; the Jews

The author looks at the issue of women trafficking at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. She considers how to explain the widespread interest in the practice compared with very few cases of the trafficking confirmed by historical sources. The author also puts a question if laying responsibility for the practice on the partitioning powers and the Jews was reflected in reality. In her research, the author used methodologies assuming the existence of moral panic and the myth of women trafficking.

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Political Anthropology in Africa

Antropologia polityczna w Afryce

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Africa; Georges Balandier; political anthropology; customary law; Algerian war

A collection of articles from the field of political anthropology in the context of African studies, covering history, culture and politics in Africa. The authors present the development of political anthropology from a historical perspective. They look back on the figure of Georges Balandier and analyse his works. The also write about customary law in refugee camps, events connected to the end of the war in Algeria, the modern history of both Sudans and about the “politicalness” of the filmmaker and anthropologist – Jean Rouch.

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Judges on Punishment, Punishing, and Impunity. A Sociological Analysis of Judicial Sentencing

Sędziowie o karze, karaniu i bezkarności. Socjologiczna analiza sędziowskiego wymiaru kary

Author(s): Jadwiga Królikowska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: punishment; impunity; judges; penology; law

The author presents the comprehensive state of knowledge, notions and opinions concerning punishment, punishing and impunity of Polish criminal division judges in district, regional and appeal courts. The sociological analysis of judicial sentencing is based on data gathered in questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The questions concerned the definition of punishment, determining the functions, aims, qualities and aspects of the punishment, the multidisciplinary penological knowledge of judges, the factors taken into account in administering punishment by judges, the mental and personal qualities needed in judicial profession, the opinions regarding too harsh or too lenient punishment as well as impunity as a sociological problem.

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The Images of Blackness. Imperial Imagination and Racial Differences in German Culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Anthropology of Hostility – Seven Sketches

Obrazy czarności. Wyobraźnia imperialna i różnica rasowa w niemieckiej kulturze XIX i XX wieku. Siedem szkiców z antropologii wrogości

Author(s): Agnieszka Więckiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: racial difference; Afro Germany; racism; German colonialism

The first Polish anthropological study on German colonialism. It is an attempt to research the influence of German colonialism on German culture between 1884 and 1989 and show the complex character of the “enemy” figure in this context. The author presents the mechanisms of social exclusion from the end of the 19th century until present day. The German forms of racism, analysed in the book, are an effective tool in administering social fear and they ultimately go beyond the German context.

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Literature crisis and division of disciplines

Crise de la littérature et partage des disciplines

Author(s): / Language(s): French

Keywords: literature; crisis; divisions; discipline; history

This volume, the result of a conference held in Warsaw in December 2019 as a part of a Franco-Polish research project on crises in literature, focuses on the relationships that the literature maintains with other fields of knowledge. These relationships, made up of sharing, collaboration or tension, were primarily theorized in the 19th century when the founding "disciplines" of our universities and research practices were established, but they had existed before. The texts presented in this volume allow us to verify this, from the Renaissance period to contemporary literature. They deal with historical circumstances and aesthetic changes in the course of which literature has forged links with religious or historical thought and discourse, accompanied the emergence of sociology or ethnography, and prepared new disciplines, such as demography. And it has always reinvested this new knowledge with a humanist and poetic dimension. Does the literature crisis lay in its capacity for reinvestment of what seems to escape from it and aiming at autonomy?

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Modernisms in Central-Eastern Europe. Wider Margins

Modernizmy Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Coraz szersze marginesy

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: modernism; Central-Eastern Europe; margins; literature; culture

The articles collected in this volume show the experience of modernism in culture and literature of Central-Eastern Europe from different perspectives. The authors present how the modernist “community of questions” was formed in our region; they attempt to redefine the European “central” and “peripheral” places; they also explore such phenomena as popular literature and film and Lviv in Polish and Ukrainian culture.

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To know and understand to be a citizen. An empirical study

Wiedzieć i rozumieć, aby być obywatelem. Studium empiryczne

Author(s): Anna Wiłkomirska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: being citizen; citizen; International Civic and Citizenship Education Study; school civic education; civic knowledge; civic attitudes; education of youth

The book presents the results of the international research called the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study. The research covered: systems of school civic education, civic knowledge and civic attitudes of 14-year-olds. The issue of the publication concerns the first two issues. The author presents and analyzes the results of the study of civic knowledge of Polish middle school students against the background of their peers from 37 countries around the world.

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Neurobiology on the Trail of Consciousness

Neurobiologia na tropie świadomości

Author(s): Christof Koch / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: neurobiology; biology of consciousness; consciousness; brain

A textbook devoted to the problems of the rapidly developing branch of science concerned with the functioning of the brain. The author considers the biological foundations of animal and human minds. He presents a multitude of concepts and study results from the fields of anatomy, physiology, medicine, psychology, and philosophy, summarizing the current knowledge on the topic of consciousness, outlines its boundaries and charts the directions of future research.

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The Figures of a Journey. Hesse, Eliade, Jung, Levi-Strauss – on the Way to India and Back

Figury podróży. Hesse, Eliade, Jung, Levi-Strauss – w drodze do Indii i z powrotem

Author(s): Anna Wieczorkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: topos of a journey; thinkers in India; journey to India; Hesse in India; Eliade in India; Jung in India; Lévi-Strauss in India

The monograph explores the relation between experiencing a journey in its physical aspect and the practice of its literary rendering. In the narratives of Herman Hesse, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Mircea Eliade and Carl Gustav Jung the author sees the figures characteristic of these authors: magic bridges, a triangle, a labyrinth and a mandala. They help express the meaning of the authors’ travels to India, giving substance to the topos of a journey.

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Architecture and Spatial Planning of Universities from the Middle Ages to the Mid-19th Century

Architektura i planowanie przestrzenne uniwersytetów od średniowiecza do połowy XIX wieku

Author(s): Barbara Arciszewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: architecture; university; spatial planning

The author presents architectural and spatial changes of university complexes in Europe and North America, from the Middle Ages, when colleges used mainly monastic designs, until the mid-19th century, when university architecture became an embodiment of the political order introduced after the Napoleonic wars and the ambition of new national states. She shows the most important buildings and architectural complexes and describes major cultural transformations leading to the changes in the form of college buildings.

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Energy and Climate Transformation – Selected Dilemmas and Recommendations

Transformacja energetyczna i klimatyczna – wybrane dylematy i rekomendacje

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: global economy; industrial policy; innovation and competitiveness; digitalisation; climate neutrality

A valuable and unique academic publication on important and topical issues, co-written by eminent specialists, practitioners and decision makers who have attempted to analyse the challenges faced by the modern civilisation in order to limit the adverse effects of climate change. The complex subject matter is presented in a way that is easily comprehensible and may serve as cognitive material for first- and second-cycle students, PhD students and those interested in energy issues. Due to the unique nature and substantive scope, the monograph should also be of interest to local governments in need of knowledge on energy transition and energy and climate policy evolution.

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Network Organizations as Carriers of Innovative Development of the Economy

Organizacje sieciowe jako nośniki innowacyjnego rozwoju gospodarki

Author(s): Jerzy Kisielnicki,Olga Sobolewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: network organization; innovation in management; communication in network organizations; cooperation; competition; technical infrastructure

The monograph presents the issues of managing network organizations in both theoretical and practical terms. In six chapters the reader was presented with many years of research by its authors on virtual and network organizations, as well as issues closely related to the functioning of such structures, such as: the concept and analysis of the functioning of network organizations; basic construction models with particular emphasis on networks and nodes; the issues of management innovation were discussed; the conditions for knowledge flow in the context of network systems were assessed; communication in traditional and network structures; complicated problem of starting cooperation; the ICT infrastructure was discussed as the basis for all changes of interest to the authors of the monograph. The project management process was also presented on the example of a real large research and development project SYNAT, which was implemented within the network structure. The publication, compared to other existing works, is distinguished by a comprehensive analysis of the issues of network organization management, research on the role of a network organization as a carrier of innovation and presentation of unique research on the effects and barriers of this type of organization.

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The Essays on the Journey to India

Szkice o drodze do Indii

Author(s): Anna Wieczorkiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: journey topos; journey to India; intercultural relations

The collected essays contain an analysis of numerous versions of cultural processing of the journey to India topos, showing multifaceted interrelations between different culture areas. The author compiled rich illustrative material: travel literature and reportage, feature films, infotainment films, forums and travel blogs as well as ethnographic interviews.

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The Reception of Late-Period Leo Tolstoy in the Polish Press

Рецепция позднего Льва Толстого в польской прессе

Author(s): Joanna Piotrowska / Language(s): Russian

Keywords: Leo Tolstoy; Russian culture; foreign culture reception

The monograph presents a new approach to research surrounding the alter-cultural reception of a writer. The methodological proposals are presented with reference to the reception of Leo Tolstoy. The study focuses on two significant events: his 80th birthday (1908) and his departure from Yasnaya Polyana (1910). A comparative analysis of Polish and foreign publications enabled the author to track the transformations that took place in the way Tolstoy’s image was constructed, and at the same time to better understand the specific nature of press reception mechanisms.

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